The Sniper And Cranes: A Literary Analysis

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War has a massive effect on human beings. There are so many lessons people can learn when they go to war. And I am going to tell you some examples I found in both stories, “The Sniper” and “Cranes”. Both of these stories have lots of similarities and differences. And in the paragraphs below I am going to explain the importance of the many lessons I learned reading, Liam Flaherty’s “The Sniper” and Hwang Suwon’s “Cranes”. In the story Liam Flaherty “The Sniper”, a republican sniper was fighting a civil war. The Republican Sniper was on a rooftop near a bridge in the military crawl position, with his rifle over his shoulder, wearing a pair of field glasses. Later all the sudden he noticed a flash and a bullet whizzed over his the top of his

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