Review Of Liam O 'Flaherty's The Sniper'

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“The Sniper” is the title of this story, the author is Liam O’ Flaherty, the genre of the story is suspense.Liam O’ Flaherty is a short story novelist that wrote a story on a civil war between Republican and Free Staters in Dublin.This story is about a Republican sniper who is fighting for the Republicans in Dublin against an enemy Free Stater.This is significant for the times we live in, because are country is fighting a war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. In the story,”The Sniper” a bullet went past the sniper’s head and I was shocked when that happened because I had no idea someone was going to shoot at the sniper.This was shocking and surprising to me because I didn’t expect that to happen.After the bullet went past his head the sniper makes the reader think about the risks people take in a war. He dropped immediately and rolled over to the rooftop to a chimney stack until his eyes were level with the top of the parapet. This is fast timing because it seemed that most of the fighting was happening throughout the city below him.I thought he was safer on top of the roof because no one would see him and he would blend in with the roof. The sniper is a person fighting for his own cause and also

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