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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 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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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 Sniper
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...
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At the beginning of the story, the sniper is described as a young man, trained as a soldier. O'Flaherty provides a sharp contrast between the innocence and naivety of youth with the graphic...
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In the story, "The Sniper," the point of view is third person, limited. The main character in the story is a sniper. He is on a rooftop where he can see a portion of the city laid out in front of...
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The sniper was on a rooftop. He lit up a cigarette, and the glow of the cigarette gave away his position. A bullet hit the wall of the roof near where he was sitting. An enemy soldier was aiming...
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By "negative aspect," I assume you are refering to the cautionary message that this powerful text contains about the dangers of war and in particular how civil war divides street against street,...
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The ending of O'Flaherty's short story certainly presents a message which focuses on the cruelty and familial divisiveness of civil wars. When the sniper discovers that he has killed his own...
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The sniper is young with the "face of a student" but one who, in the midst of the Irish Civil war, has become a soldier and is therefore "used to looking at death." He is so used to it that he...
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The main theme is of civil war in "The Sniper." The story's setting is Dublin, Ireland. It is the Irish Civil War that began in 1922, after the Irish Parliament voted to divide the island of...
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A sniper's bullet hits and kills the old woman from Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper." The old woman in question is actually an informer working for the Free Staters. While the...
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The protagonist's character traits that are initially seen in the short story are ones that reflect total commitment to the cause. The sniper is singularly focused on his mission. There is...
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The author describes the sniper as having the "face of a student, thin and ascetic, but his eyes had the cold gleam of the fanatic. They were deep and thoughtful, the eyes of a man used to looking...
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The fact that each soldier fights for what he believes is right is the (seeming) basis of the plot. However, civil war pitted neighbor against neighbor and, in this case, brother against brother....
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Liam O'Flahtery wrote "The Sniper" as a means of showing the harsh realities and complexities of war. "The Sniper" exhibits the theme that war turns humans into objects and friends (or brothers)...
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The original question had to be edited. Overall, the sniper's appearance is consistent with a solitary soldier keeping vigil over his intended target. He is a young solider, brimming with the...
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The text of the story answers that question in the sentence following the detail about him not eating. The story tells readers that the sniper had not eaten, because he was too excited to eat....
