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The Sniper
When the sniper kills his opponent, an important change comes over him. All of a sudden, he loses the "lust of battle," for example, and he feels "revolted" by the sight of the dead sniper. This...
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The Sniper
The setting of the short story "The Sniper" is the Irish Civil War, a conflict between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and the British security forces in Ireland....
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The Sniper
Tone is the attitude of a writer toward a subject. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words that the author uses for a particular subject. "The Sniper" is a story about civil war....
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The guns are (literally) weapons that cause injury, death, and destruction. Symbolically, they represent violence. In the first paragraph, the narrator says the guns "roared" and follows with this...
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I think the general character trait that causes the sniper to investigate the Free Stater sniper is curiosity. He wondered did he know him. Perhaps he had been in his own company before the...
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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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On a street in downtown Dublin during the Irish Civil War a Republican sniper is posted on a rooftop in Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper." Opposite him on the other side of the street is a...
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The sniper kills the old woman because she is an informant for the Free Staters. In addition to her being an informant, the old woman knows the location of the protagonist sniper. The sniper...
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The main external conflict in "The Sniper" is the sniper's battle to stay alive. This conflict involves multiple parts. The conflict begins when the sniper lights his cigarette and gives his...
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I think one reason for describing only the Republican sniper in great detail is because he is the story's protagonist. Authors generally spend more time describing their main character because...
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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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Suspense is an intense feeling that a reader has while reading and waiting for the outcome of an event. It's that "edge of your seat" feeling. The author of "The Sniper" is able to create suspense...
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The only hint in the beginning of the story about how the sniper feels about the war (in a mostly detached narration of his activities) appears in the second paragraph when the third person...
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If the question is asking if the sniper had a moral dilemma about shooting the enemy sniper, I'm sorry to say there isn't a moral dilemma. The sniper has just killed the old woman and the soldier...
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An allusion is a brief reference to a person, place, thing or idea which is of cultural, literary, historical or political importance. In Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper" the third person...
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The climax is the highest point of interest in the plot of a piece of literature. In Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper," the plot revolves around the actions of a Republican sniper on a Dublin rooftop...
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The Republican sniper fakes his death in order to fool the enemy sniper from the Free Stater army. The protagonist sniper bravely puts his life at risk in order to shoot and kill the old woman...
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The Sniper
"The Sniper," a short story, describes a conflict between two unnamed snipers during the Irish Civil War in 1922. The main character is the Republican sniper, who has been camped out on a rooftop...
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The Sniper
The answer to this question is not difficult, but it is awkward. It's awkward because "The Sniper" doesn't use character names. There is a sniper, another sniper, an old woman, and a soldier in...
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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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Let's start with the mood and atmosphere of the story as a whole. I would say that this story's mood is tense, dark, and violent. In a nutshell, the story is about a sniper that coldly shoots and...
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“The Sniper” is a short story set in Ireland early in the early twentieth century. At that time there was a civil war raging among rival Irish factions. One side wanted independence from...
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The sniper went to look at the enemy sniper because the protagonist sniper thought that he might know the enemy sniper. The reason that the protagonist might actually know the enemy sniper is...
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Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper" is based on true events. Judging by information in the first paragraph of the story, it must be assumed that the setting of the story is the Battle of...
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The Sniper
The Republican sniper, who is the protagonist of Liam O'Flaherty's short story, is at once cold and calculating, while also revealing profound guilt and regret as he battles an enemy sniper on the...
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The Sniper
The Republican sniper may have had an idea that the Free State sniper would be someone he recognized. Many of the men who fought in the Irish Civil War had served together in the Irish Republican...
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The enemy sniper is able to get a clear shot at the sniper because the sniper exposes himself long enough to shoot the man in the armored car and the old woman. The sniper is a fairly brave man...
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The final sentence of the story is the sniper discovering that the other sniper was his brother. There is no textual evidence that supports the sniper going back to the war or taking time to cope...
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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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At the start of the story, the sniper is described as a seasoned soldier. Although he is young ("face of a student"), his demeanor makes him look like an older solider, one who has become "used to...
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The reaction to the sniper's realization underscores war's destructive nature. O'Flaherty's story is one of distance. The sniper is at a considerable distance from his target. He maintains his...
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At first, I thought this question was going to be very easy. After reading the list of choices about indirect characterization in "The Sniper," I had a hard time choosing between speech and...
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In the exposition to O'Flaherty's "The Sniper," the main character is physically described in a way that reflects the story's setting. The sniper's physical condition reflects a wartime reality. In...
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No specific person broke the silence in the story "The Sniper." The opening paragraph describes the evening turning into night and bringing darkness with it. The story takes place in Dublin, and...
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The protagonist in this story is the sniper. He never gets a name. His antagonist is another sniper, who also doesn't get a name. In fact, none of the characters in the story get a name. They...
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If I'm honest, I don't think "The Sniper" has a true flashback. The entire story is very much based in the present. It has a singular focus on the sniper, his situation, and his mission. A...
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The setting of Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper" is the city of Dublin during the Irish Civil War. The Republican sniper is on a rooftop not far from the Four Courts government building...
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The Sniper
The title of Liam O'Flaherty's short story is basically straight forward. A sniper is a sharp shooter who might perch on high ground in order to overlook the terrain below for enemy activity. In...
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One reason O'Flaherty does not use the sniper's name in the story is to increase the universal reach of the story. A significant part as to why "The Sniper" is such a powerful story is because it...
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The Sniper
In Liam O'Flaherty's short story, "The Sniper," a soldier is alone on a rooftop in the middle of a street battle during the Irish Civll War. The sniper is a "Republican," meaning he sides 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....
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The surprise ending of Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper" is meant to shock the reader and highlight the brutality of war, especially a civil war that matched countrymen against each other....
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There are contradictions or paradoxes in this story. The sniper has characteristics of innocence as well as violence. He is, or once was, a student. But engaged in the Irish Civil War, he has...
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Liam O'Flaherty creates suspense from the very beginning of his short story "The Sniper" as he describes an idyllic summer night in Dublin. The problem, however, is that a war is raging as "heavy...
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The Sniper
The main character, our protagonist, is the Republican sniper. When the story opens, he is lying on a roof, waiting. Although he is a seasoned soldier at this point, "deep and thoughtful," he has a...
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The Sniper
The central meaning of Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper" is the vicious unpredictable nature of war and the cruel toll it takes on the soldiers who fight. The Republican sniper is...
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The Sniper
Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper" takes place in Dublin during the Irish Civil War. The author tells us it is specifically set on the rooftops near the Four Courts, an important government...
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The Sniper
The Republican sniper, the main character in the story, is described as a young man with an innocent face, but he has the intense look of a soldier: His face was the face of a student, thin and...
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Of course this would depend on the person but I would argue that for most people the love of family would be stronger. Even in a situation like the sniper finds himself when he comes face to face...
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Obviously any individual who would place themselves alone on a rooftop in the middle of a pitched battle between two bitter foes can be considered a risk-taker. The Republican sniper risks his life...
