Liam O Flaherty The Sniper Analysis

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In the story “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, teaches readers how was makes humans less of human beings. In the beginning of the story the author explains how the main character or “the Sniper” obtained “eyes of a man who was used to looking at death.” This part in the short story shows implies how often this man has looked at someone dead or that he has killed. The fact that he continues to do his job and let the war take control of him. Whenever he kills a man, the person on the other end is not someone he knows, everyone is just an enemy. Over his in the Army, he had been washed of all his feelings, which make him allowed to do his job. Towards the middle of the story, he notices that a woman was giving the enemy his position. As was happening,

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