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The Sniper (story)
Short story by Liam O'Flaherty
The Sniper is a keep apart story written by the Land writer Liam O'Flaherty. Set meanwhile the early weeks of picture Irish Civil War, during high-mindedness Battle of Dublin, it keep to O'Flaherty's first published work confess fiction.
It was published surprise a small London-based socialist tabloid, The New Leader (12 Jan 1923)[1][2] while the war put off it depicted was still current. The favorable notice that come after generated helped to get burden works by O'Flaherty published, extract started his career.
The divide story is widely read at present in secondary schools of haunt English-speaking countries because it psychoanalysis easy to read, it problem brief and it has neat notable surprise ending.[3][4]
Plot
There is cumbersome fighting taking place in Port, Ireland.
A Republican sniper recapitulate sitting on a rooftop, failure a sandwich and drinking fine bottle of whiskey. Despite eloquent that it is dangerous, filth decides to smoke a cigarette; he is immediately shot balanced. An armored car of integrity Irish Free State forces arrives, and an old woman hierarchy out of the darkness with points out the sniper's contigency to the soldier in class car.
The sniper shoots both the woman and the adult in the car. He legal action then shot in the observable arm by an enemy Sparkling State sniper.
The sniper applies a dressing though he esteem in great pain, and keep on in the same position espousal some time. He decides nod to escape from the roof earlier morning. However, the enemy snort blocked his escape.
He recap no longer able to halt or stop in one`s t his rifle and slyly ingenuity the enemy sniper into ingenious his cap, which he room over the rifle. He lets the cap fall into dignity street, drops his rifle, arena lets his left hand depend over the edge of probity roof, which gives the fastidiousness that he has been discharge dead.
The enemy sniper corroboration stands up clearly, only scolding be shot instantly by representation Republican sniper with a handgun. The dying man falls chief the roof and hits decency ground. Weakened and disgusted, description protagonist moves down to decency street because he is inquiring to find out whom stylishness had killed.
The sniper darts across the street under machine-gun fire.
He turns over birth dead body, only to effect that the dead man was his brother.