Prose- The Sniper by Liam O’ Flaherty

 

                       The Sniper by Liam O’ Flaherty

                      

                        

                       The story of “The Sniper,” by Liam O’ Flaherty seemed everything was dark under the icon light. Liam invite the reader to a Civil War story. This story consists of three kinds of setting such as place, atmosphere and time. The narrator wants to bring the reader into the tragedy of the death. This plot leads the reader into the situation of a Civil War and build the reader’s fantasy. The Anglo sniper that has been ready to shoot the republican sniper was seen sharply and observed him. They fight seriously and frightenely. When the Republican’s sniper has already killed the Anglo’s sniper, he tried to look the Anglo sniper’s face because he felt familiar with that face. And the fact showed that the Anglo’s sniper is his brother.

            There are two main points that the author wants to explain to reader. They are about “the cap”, and “the darkness dim the light of the moon”.

“Taking off his cap, he placed it over the muzzle of his riffle. Then he pushed the rifle slowly upwards over the parapet, until the cap was visible from the opposite side of the street. Almost immedietly there was a report, and a bullet pierced the centre of the cap “. Its about “the cap” (55). This evidence showed the setting of the situation of the war which contributed to the smart character. The author wants to show the situation of this story that scared and frightened. It’s also showed how smart the republican sniper. He used that tactic to make his enemy confused. So, he can kill his enemy easily until he was died.

 

 

By setting of the time, there is the word “Darkness dim the light of the moon” (1). Which bring the readers the situation of nightfalland the darkness of that night. Not only described about the situation, but this sentences also described about the feeling of the character. It showed the time of this story, when this story was happened.

Hence, Liam has described about the character, place and the time in “The Snipers” story that served greatly. The characters bring the reader to seen through the story brightly and tricky. In accompanying the story’s character into an underground worlds that grows straightly intension at every turn, the readers feeling of foreboading increases; by describing the time and place of the character which has happend in the story. The readers feel sad and shock in the relavation in the closing of the story. Liam used the special event of tragedy and frighten situation into the movie. This story has been become the movie “The American Sniper: the Autobiography of the most Lethal sniper in U.S.”- effect many people totally take this seat and many viewers watch this movie become popular moviewhich the writer is Chrish Keyle (Bradley Cooper). It is impressive that the story with the 1120 words can evoke with words the same respons of cinematographis very popular movie in America.