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1. Hari prasadh.R
9th ‘B’
Short Story Unit
The Sniper

2. LIAM O’ FLAHERTY

3. LIAM O’FLAHERTY
Date of birth:
28th of August 1896
Date of death:
7th september 1984

4. Place of birth:
Inishmore,
Ireland
Nationality:
Irish

5. Education:
 University college Dublin
Belvedere College
Blackrock College
Holy Cross

6. He served on the western
front
He was injured there
He returned as a socialist
then Joined the Irish free
state

7. He moved to the United States after the war
Lived in the Hollywood for some time
His first novel was first published in
1923,titled “The neighbour’s wife”
He was awarded the “James Talt Black
Memorial Prize” for the novel “The informer”

8. His other famous works included:
The Informer
Return Of The Brute
Two Lovely Beasts And
Other Stories
The Pediar’s Revenge And
Other Stories
Civil War & A Red Petticoat

9. In 2006 a memorial garden
was built in his native village of
grtna capall , with a plaque
describing his life and writings .

10. In 1922 O’Flaherty and a
group of supporters seized a
building in Dublin for four
days , flying a red flag from
it.

11. THE SNIPER
BY:
LIAM O’FLAHERTY

12. In 'The Sniper'; Liam O' Flaherty suggest
the horror of war not only by
presenting its physical dangers but also
by showing its psychological effects.
The story takes place in Dublin around
the beleaguered Four Courts in the
middle of the city where gunfire of
heavy guns, machine guns, and rifles
break the silence around the sniper
because of a civil war that is especially
dangerous because the enemy looked
similar to yourself

13. The Sniper
• the sniper is the main character in the
story . He is the member of the
republican army. The Sniper has been
positioned atop the roof in Dublin ..
, picking off people as he chooses. He
seems calm at times, but he is also tired
of the killing.
• Eventually, another sniper, an
enemy, discovers his hiding place when
the first sniper has shot at an old
woman who was giving away his hiding
place.

14. The first sniper is able to trick the
second sniper into thinking he has
been shot. When the second sniper
stands up on the roof of the house
across the way, the first sniper
takes aim and kills him.
The first sniper jumps off the roof
and his curiosity wins. He goes over
to the dead sniper and when he
turns him over, he realizes he has
shot his own brother.

15. THE ENEMY SNIPER
A member of the Free State army The
Enemy Sniper wants to kill the Sniper.
He appears to have the advantage after
shooting and injuring the Sniper. He
makes a fatal error, however, when he
falls for the Sniper's ruse. Once he
thinks he has killed the other man, the
Enemy Sniper stands up on his
rooftop, thus making himself a clear
mark. The Sniper shoots him, and he
falls to the street below,

16. THE GENRE
The genre of ‚The Sniper‛
Is fiction. it is one of Liam
ö’ Flaherty’s first works
of fiction.

17. The resolution of the
Sniper is also the
climax because the
Sniper ends up out of
trouble for the time
being and finds that
the enemy sniper is in
fact his brother.

19. The Plot
The plot of the short
story, "The Sniper" deals
with the clash between two
opposing groups in Ireland:
the Republicans and the Free
States. It is a civil strife, set
in 1922.

20. THE THEMES
War reduces human beings to mere
objects. They have no names, no
faces. They are targets, nothing
more, to be shot at from a
distance. To support this theme,
Liam o’ Flaherty refrains from
naming any of his characters.

21. THE POINT OF VIEW
"The Sniper" in limited
third-person point of
view, in which he presents
the thoughts of the IRA
sniper but does not present
the thoughts of any other
character

22. the video
URL :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=hrh2frvZO-
0&feature=player_detailpage

23. meanings
fleecy: a wool coat of a sheep