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The Sniper
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The sniper, from The Sniper by Liam O'FLaherty, kills the old woman in the street because she is pointing out his position to the other side. She is an informer. Because she is putting his life...
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O’Flaherty's primary message explores the impersonality of war and the destructive nature of civil conflicts throughout his classic short story "The Sniper." In the short story, the Republican...
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Figurative language occurs when a writer uses figures of speech of various kinds to make his or her writing more effective, impactful, and/or persuasive. Some common examples of figurative language...
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One example of figurative language in "The Sniper" is the line "machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms." This is an example of simile...
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The protagonist in Liam O’Flaherty’s short story “The Sniper” is associated with several adjectives. The first and easiest is his association with one particular side in what was known as “the...
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In very simple terms the quotation alludes to the depressing fact that war is a permanent condition for humankind. So long as there are human beings on this earth, so the argument runs, there will...
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It probably is not possible for a reader to give a definitive answer on exactly why Liam O'Flaherty wrote this particular story. We would need to ask him, but I think that a reader can safely make...
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The sniper makes himself totally vulnerable to the other shooter on the opposite roof when he rises to shoot at the man in the armored car and the old woman, an informer, speaks to the man and...
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Although the Republican sniper knows it is a risk because the flash of his match might be seen in the darkness, he decides to have a cigarette anyway. It is a poor decision. He is young, and...
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A reader's emotions an be affected by a story's mood. Mood can be influenced in a variety of ways, and one way that author Liam O'Flaherty manipulates our emotions during this particular piece is...
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When the story first begins, readers are told that twilight is turning into night. We are witnessing events in Dublin on a moonlit night with scattered clouds. Dublin is currently in the middle of...
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The short story "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty takes place during a civil war in Dublin, Ireland. A Republican sniper, a young man, lies on a rooftop with a rifle, a pistol, and a pair of...
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The Necklace is a short story written by Guy de Maupassant. It was first published in 1884 and follows Mathilde Loisel, who lives in an apartment in France with her husband. They are not...
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When we join the sniper at the beginning of the short story's narrative, we are given to understand that he has already seen his fair share of war. However, his eyes still have the "cold gleam of...
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"The Sniper" is a wonderfully suspenseful short story, and readers are immediately pulled into that suspense in the very first paragraph as it puts forth the setting to readers. We are told that...
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In Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper," an Irish Republican sniper lies on a rooftop in Dublin, watching his surroundings for signs of enemy movement. He knows that enemies are watching for a sign of...
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"The Sniper" is written quite literally and somewhat sparsely. The prose does not spend a great deal of time elaborating on major metaphors or symbolism. However, if you look closely enough, you...
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Remember that there are several types of irony (situational, dramatic, verbal, etc...). However, the major irony we are dealing with here is the situational irony: the idea that what we expect as...
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To avoid completing this homework assignment for you, I will list several important details in which Liam O’Flaherty characterizes the titular sniper in his short story. In the second paragraph,...
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The author creates suspense several different ways in the telling of "The Sniper." First off, the setting of the story most definitely creates suspense for the reader. The narrator, a...
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The author builds the suspense in the story through all three of the literary elements that you mention above.The protagonist, the sniper, is lying in wait to assassinate any enemy targets. As he...
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The main theme of "The Sniper" is the tragedy of warfare. This story is about the Irish Civil War, so it makes a more specific comment on war by showing how soldiers can become desensitized to...
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After an ominous beginning, Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through the clouds the reader is confronted with the sounds of battle, a succession of...
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Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper" is set on a Dublin rooftop during the Irish Civil War. Republicans are fighting Free Staters in a pitched street battle. The protagonist of the story is a...
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The climax of the story is when the Republican sniper hit the opposing sniper on the opposite rooftop and killed him. He was overjoyed to have made his shot because the two had been waiting to...
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The narrator says that the sniper has "the face of a student, thin and ascetic, but his eyes had the cold gleam of the fanatic." He is, or at least looks like, a student. So, he has a youthful...
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A dilemma could be defined as a situation which demands a difficult choice. Often, the choice is between two things that are equally undesirable. There are at least three dilemmas in Liam...
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The most likely answer to this question is because the author's point is not exactly WHO the sniper is, but what he is doing and what his "job" entails and the people it affects, as well...
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In Liam O'Flaherty's short story, "The Sniper" (1923), the reasons stated by the first-person narrator, the sniper, are shown specifically in this passage from the story: Then he paused for a...
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The setting is the Irish Civil War in 1922. A Republican sniper, a young man, sits on a rooftop in Dublin, trying to locate any enemy soldiers. An enemy sniper fires from another rooftop when the...
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The term "civil war" is a bit misleading if you ask me. At no point should anybody ever consider war to be civil. Oh certainly civil gentlemen may fight in the war, but their actions are far from...
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In the short story "The Sniper" many events build tension. The title itself is a means of tension as a sniper is an expert marksman who is able to kill others while staying alive himself....
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By "claim statement" I believe that the question is asking for a declarative sentence that occurs near the beginning of the story. A declarative sentence makes a claim. Generally it is a...
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The sniper must find and kill the enemy sniper or he himself will be killed. His duty is not a luxury that he can decide not to perform. He is reminded of this when he lights his cigarette and is...
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The setting of Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper" throws readers in media res (Latin--in the middle of things). It is dark, and machine guns and rifles are lighting up the night. It is the middle of a...
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Before killing his "enemy," the sniper was convinced of his mission's need. He is shown to be completely committed to the war effort. O'Flaherty is very deliberate in describing how the sniper...
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In the process of shooting the man in the armored car and the woman on the street, the sniper has been shot and has given his location to the shooter on the other roof. He knows that he must kill...
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I must admit, when I first saw this question I was struggling to think of what symbols there are in this short story. However, we need to remember that symbols are defined as objects, characters or...
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The primary theme of "The Sniper" is a demonstration of how war is a dehumanizing experience. The transformation that the sniper goes through attests to this theme. While he starts out completely...
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One of the symbols in "The Sniper" is a gun. We see two different versions of it, handled by two separate, opposing forces. The first sniper has a revolver and a rifle; the second sniper has a...
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In "The Sniper," the use of physical details makes the titular character more realistic. O'Flaherty uses physical details to help the reader envision the sniper. The opening description of the...
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Liam O'Flaherty's sniper, from the short story "The Sniper", is both calculating and remorseful. In the beginning, the sniper desires nothing more than to take out the sniper on the other rooftop....
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I think that the significance in describing the sniper in such detailed terms is to highlight the transformation that is within him as a result of his experiences. To a great extent, the sniper...
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Throughout the beginning of Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper" the title character is portrayed as dispassionate and a brutally efficient killing machine. He is a "fanatic" who apparently...
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The setting of Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper" is very important to the story as a whole. The setting (time and place) is openly defined in the initial paragraph of the text. It is a summer night in...
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The Sniper isn't a traditional plot line in that there is a conflict and a resolution. It is a surprise ending that heightens the message in the story--that war is senseless because if all the...
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I can give you highlights of what I would include if I were writing this piece on "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty. First of all, adopt an objective viewpoint. A reporter does not include his or own...
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The tone in this story is one of action and suspense. The reader feels as though he or she is sitting right next to the sniper on the roof trying to outsmart the other sniper. The climactic point...
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I think that the most obvious answer to this is that this action shows that the sniper is a ruthless man. He is willing to shoot even an old woman. To most of us, this would seem like an...
