“The sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face.” What mood can be inferred from this text from “The Sniper” by Liam O'Flaherty? Along with “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer “The Sniper” uses techniques to build suspense in the stories. “The Sniper” talks of life as a soldier for a sniper in war. “Once upon a Time” talks about the happily ever after bedtime story the author came up with in his sleep. In both the text previously presented the authors use techniques as description, plot development and characterization.
Description is how the author uses the text to bring out tension in the text. In the first text, “The Sniper”, sets up the story by stating “Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light
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“The eyes of a man who is used to looking at death” the reader would think that since the sniper is so used to looking a death then he would not be affected not putting too much energy into it the author later states “he became bitten by remorse.” creating tension because the sniper was not suppose to have a reaction he was a soldier he should be moving to the next enemy not being struck by guilt. In the second story the author sets these characters up to be the happily ever after that everyone wants even using the word happy ever after in her/his story. The author states “they had a housemaid who was absolutely trustworthy” and “in the suburbs” too make it seem as if there is nothing that could go wrong in this beautiful place of after happily ever after but it this that leads to their downfall. In the end the author uses characterization to make the readers even more surprise because what could go wrong when society says you're doing everything right.
The authors of both “Once Upon a Time” and “The Sniper” did a great job at building suspense in there story. Using description to bring out important details and keep the reader in involve. Then carefully constructing so that the plot were to that it brings a twist or build to the plot twist with the author use of plot development. The authors use characterization to make
As Mccarthy once said “The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. (Mary McCarthy)” In this quote, McCarthy means the main characters in the story are suspenseful to draw the reader to be anxious. Above all, the author incorporates the use of literary terms in his or her’s story to create the feeling of suspense. To be specific, in the story “The Hitchhiker” by Lucille Fletcher, the author includes the elements foreshadowing and supernatural to leave the reader anticipated and anxious what is going on in the story. Also, in “The Monkey's Paw” by W.W Jacobs, the author develops suspense by adding literary devices such as situational irony and cliffhanger
Liam O’Flaherty’s realistic fiction story, “The Sniper,” takes place in Dublin, Ireland, where there is a civil war waging between Republicans and Free Staters. The Republican sniper, who is the main character in the story, is fighting in the civil war for the Republican organization. There are numerous amounts of people who are attempting to assassinate the sniper because of his organization, and his enemies are located all around him waiting patiently until they gain their chance. The Republican sniper, however, leaps before he looks most times, thus leading to severe consequences throughout the story. By using description and suspense, O’Flaherty creates the lesson that actions, without thought, will lead to consequences.
When the right words are fitted together in a sentence, they can sometimes describe a scene so vividly that an image comes to mind, an instance where the reader can visualize what is occurring. In Sarah’s Key, descriptions are used to describe the physical appearance of a character which deepens the audience’s understanding of that character. The following is the first description given of Sarah’s father: “A man appeared in the doorway, a thin man with crumpled clothes, an unshaven chin, and red, tired eyes. He walked through the courtyard, holding himself straight” (Rosnay 19). From this description, the reader can visualize the character, a worn man in the doorway, leaving his hideout cellar, moving through the courtyard without visible
Also if I look at the genre of the story, suspense is built at the
In conclusion, the author’s use internal conflict, mood shifts, and imagery to convey how dehumanizing effects of war can change a person, also one’s relationship with loved ones. The author’s use of mood shift in the story foreshadows that the sniper will hurt or even kill relations with someone, but this comes to be known that it will come back to heart him more than it did the other person. As at the start is war foul and cruel as we thought or is it uses as humans that make war such evil things.
The Author uses these examples to give us a way to see descriptive language in short novel.
Taylor, the author uses both foreshadowing and figurative language to help convey a theme, sometimes people need to resort to resort to violence to keep themselves safe, by using these literary devices to help describe important events in the story. These Literary devices help improve the description, and can help convey a certain theme throughout the
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart”, Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” and Tobias Wolff's “Bullet in the Brain” these are the type of stories that most readers would enjoy if they are into spontaneous sudden death. In these short stories each one of them has a different point of view. Trying to find out who point of view in these stories can be a little tricky to some readers like in the stories “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, or in the story Bullet in the brain.” In “Tell-Tale Heart” most readers can tell who point of view they are reading from the first sentences. Every story has there own tone to give readers a more of a deeper feeling, and the point of view can help us see what the character in the stories see, think, and hear.
The point of view of the story stems from the killer himself. The emotion, feelings and
A successful descriptive narrative gives the necessary information for a reader to know the material of a text. For instance, narrating the text of a story allows the audience to connect with the feelings of the narrator. A description incorporates visuals so that the audience can recognize the image being portrayed. “Shooting an Elephant” and “The Lottery” are both descriptive narratives. Descriptive narratives give the reader a clearer understanding of the passage. “Shooting an Elephant” is the stronger descriptive narrative because of vivid sensory detail, manipulating the perception of the reader, and Orwell’s use of conflict.
When the protagonist states, “mournful influence of the unperceived shadow,” it further describes the protagonists feelings on the Old man and suspense is created on whether the protagonist will really kill the Old Man. Secondly, punctuation is used to further build up suspense in “Tell-tale Heart.” As the protagonist is in the Old Man’s room he says, “I resolved to open a little a very, very little crevice in the lantern… -- you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily – until at length a simple dim ray… fell upon the vulture eye” (Poe 2). The commas and dashes used in the text break up the train of thought at the perfect time to add suspense. Dashes are able to separate every little detail that could further instill suspense; commas are able to separate adjectives to add repetition which in turn also further instills suspense. Thirdly, the tone set by Edgar Allen Poe in “Tell-tale Heart” is paranoid and guilty, these factors into the protagonists thoughts and leaves him in suspense. While the police are chatting in the protagonists home, right above the Old Man’s remains, the protagonist thought, “They
For a writer, stylistic devices are key to impacting a reader through one’s writing and conveying a theme. For example, Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates use of these stylistic techniques in his short stories “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The former story is about a party held by a wealthy prince hiding from a fatal disease, known as the Red Death. However, a personified Red Death kills all of the partygoers. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is about a man who visits his mentally ill childhood companion, Roderick Usher. At the climax of the story, Roderick’s twin sister, Madeline, murders him after he buries her alive. Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories employ the stylistic decisions of symbolism, dream-like imagery, and tone to affect the reader by furthering understanding of the theme and setting and evoking emotion in readers.
Some authors use suspense to make their readers more intrigued and to create a feeling of wanting to know more. In “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, Billy Weaver is looking for a place to spend the night and finds himself in front of a bed and breakfast. However, the Landlady, owner of the bed and breakfast, is a murderer. However in “A Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator originally wants to kill the old man because of his eye the beat of the old man's heart is what drives the narrator over the edge. But, the police came and the guilt and the sound of his own heartbeat made the narrator confess to killing the old man. Therefore suspense is depicted in both Roald Dahl’s short story, “The Landlady” and Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “A Tell-Tale Heart” through the use of tone and character development.
In the crosshairs of, US Navy Seal, Chris Kyle’s scope, sits a woman and a young boy who appear to be attempting to hide something. Seconds pass, and the woman passes the item to the boy, revealing to Kyle and anyone around just what they have, a deadly grenade. After talking to his partner and his general on his radio, he has to make a choice, to kill or not to kill. His partner makes the decision harder by telling him “They’ll fry you if you’re wrong,” regarding if the child in question is actually a threat or simply a misunderstanding. This is the opening scene in the 2015 film, “American Sniper” which is based on the real life events experienced by Chris Kyle in Iraq (Eastwood, 2015).
At the outset, Atwood gives the reader an exceedingly basic outline of a story with characters John and Mary in plotline A. As we move along to the subsequent plots she adds more detail and depth to the characters and their stories, although she refers back with “If you want a happy ending, try A” (p.327), while alluding that other endings may not be as happy, although possibly not as dull and foreseeable as they were in plot A. Each successive plot is a new telling of the same basic story line; labeled alphabetically A-F; the different plots describe how the character’s lives are lived with all stories ending as they did in A. The stories tell of love gained or of love lost; love given but not reciprocated. The characters experience heartache, suicide, sadness, humiliation, crimes of passion, even happiness; ultimately all ending in death regardless of “the stretch in between”. (p.329)