There are many ways these two stories are alike, and many ways they are different. "Cranes" and "The sniper" have some things that are the same. They also have ways in which they are different. They are alike because they are both taking place during the civil war. They are different because "Cranes" is more of a happier story, with a happier theme, "the Sniper" Is a bit of a sadder story, with a more serious theme.
In "The Sniper", there is a republican sniper taking enemy fire from another sniper. The republican sniper doesnt speak while he is being shot at, he thinks and tries to survive. He is a sniper in the civil war. The republican sniper was able to make the enemy sniper think that he was dead. That is when the republican sniper was able to use his side arm to kill his enemy. After he killed his enemy he got off the roof-top to see who is enemy was. So he ran over to his dead foe, only to find out it was his own brother.
In "Cranes" there is a cop named Songsam. He is a cop during the civil war. One day he was walking around a town, and saw his old friend tied up and being transported somewhere by other cops. Songsam went over to his old friend and told the other cops that he would take him to where he needed to go. So Songsam took his old friend into the woods, where they were walking and talking, Songsam found out that his
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old friend was innocent. So Songsam decided to let him go. These stories are alike in the way that they both take place during a civil war.
While these two stories differ, they're both taking place during a civil war. Another way they are alike is that they both have very valuable life lessons that the reader learns from each, the lessons are different, but they are very valuable life lessons. A way these stories differ in a way, is that "The Sniper" is more of a sadder story, with a darker theme to it, along with it does not have any dialog in it either. With "Cranes" there is dialog, a good amount of it, also "Cranes" is more of a happier story, with a brighter theme to
it. These are the ways in which "Cranes" and "The Sniper" are alike. And how they are different. One is more of a brighter story. The other is more of a darker, sadder story. But they are very alike and very different as well.
In “The Sniper” the conflict is man vs man, which means main character is tasked with killing his enemy, but it proves to be quite a challenge. Even though there were many challenges the sniper followed through with his job and persevered even after he was shot in the arm. Wanting to kill his enemy, stay alive, and be one step closer to ending the war was his main goals. Being brave, he took off his hat, placed it on his gun, and raised it above the edge of the roof. Instantly the enemy shot at it and the sniper, pretending to be dead, waited until the enemy got up for him to shoot him. He did some quick thinking and, with determination, handled the conflict quite well.
... officer was a “white hat,” in the book they referred to them as newjack. Most of the guards were turnkey; they had little contact with inmates. Lastly, one guard told Ted Conover to live at work the problem at work and not bring it home with him. In class we talked about how officer go home with the problems of the job, which is not healthy for them and their family.
In the story, “The Sniper”, The sniper showed that he was an intelligent soldier. In the beginning, after Being shot by the enemy sniper the sniper took care of his wound and was able to compose himself and think of a plan. Thinking he had won the battle after the snipers successful decoy the enemy sniper dropped his guard and the second he did the sniper
In Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper," all of these. are brought to an acute reality in a single war-torn city. Strong cerebral convictions and opposing philosophies, due to which people want to destroy the seemingly “wrong” plague this world and are the ones who are the ones who are the main reason for the plight. To aid in his creation of such emotional conflict, turmoil and plight, the author has portrayed the sniper as a very controversial character in the story. This story is oriented around one character in the Civil War which he should not even be in as he is. mentioned to be a “student” in the story.
While “Bloody Sunday” was told from the perspective of people who were affected by war, “The Sniper’ was told from the perspective of a soldier. For example in “Bloody Sunday’” they were talking about how people died because of the war but they didn't experience it first hand, as it states in the song, “There’s many lost but tell me who has one.” This quote demonstrates how many people have died from war and although many people were affected by it they were not the ones who actually died in the war or fought in it. While in “The Sniper” it showed someone who was directly affected by the war, as the author states “ Then when the smoke cleared, he peered across and uttered a cry of joy. His enemy had been hit.” The soldier knew what it was really like to be in the war and he also killed people during it. THe people in the song however were not directly affected by the war. The two authors had each text written from different points of view causing them to be
One on the differences is that The Sniper takes place in Dublin, Ireland and the story Ambush is in Khe Vietnam. Another difference between the two short stories is that The Sniper takes place on a rooftop near O’ Connell bridge and Ambush takes place in the bushes beside a winding path. “ On a rooftop near O’Connell bridge a republican sniper lay watching.” The Sniper takes place in 1921 and Ambush takes place in the Vietnam war sometime between 1962 and 1972. The two short stories are similar because they both take place at night but Ambush is a foggy, hot night and The Sniper is a dark cold night.
As we saw earlier, both authors of both stories were born in different places and did many things. “The Sniper” sets in Dublin, Ireland, during a time of a bitter civil war. It was a war between the Republicans, which wanted Ireland to become ...
He saw his old childhood friend. His childhood friend was a prisoner. He meets his friend and he volunteers to escort his friend. In both stories, a war is going on. The situation of the Sniper is more tragic right now. I think that the resolution of the cranes is most hopeful than “The Sniper”. Both characters learn similar lessons at the end of the story because at the end of the “Cranes”, he let his friend go and learns that family is more important that war and in “The Sniper”, he kills his enemy but he comes close he realizes that he killed his brother and he learns that war tear families apart.
As the characters are dropped into dangerous settings, so dangerous that it is between life and death. In the stories “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, “American Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. As the stories are similar they are also different in many ways, such as Setting, Mood, and Conflict. (both internal and external)
When a nation is divided, so are it’s people. The American Civil War demonstrates this because of the two divided sides: the union and confederacy. In The Killer Angles it is extremely evident that the people and nation are divided. The novel portrays the different perspectives and opinions of soldiers and commanding officers throughout the Battle of Gettysburg. In the novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, James Longstreet fought for glory, Robert E. Lee fought for his homeland, and Joshua Chamberlain fought for an ideal. First, we will evaluate Longstreet’s motives.
The basic plot of the story is based during an evening within the Irish civil wars. It tells of a republican sniper sitting on a rooftop and neutralising enemy units as the cross a bridge. When a free-states sniper shows himself on an opposite roof they wage a fierce and innovative war to see who would end up the better. Eventually the republican sniper gains the upper hand and after taking a bullet in the arm destroys the worthy opponent. After a curious inspection to the identity of the enemy sniper he finds himself looking into the eyes of his dead brother.
Spending forever with the love of your life sounds great, but would you kill them first and then yourself? It sounds very unrealistic to kill someone you love, but leaving the earth with them could leave you at a different perspective in the end. “The Cranes,” by Peter Meinke, illustrates a story that tragically shows love, but the kind none of us want to live in. The last line, “At the shot, the two cranes plunged upward, their great wings beating the air and their long slender necks pointed like arrows toward the sun,” expresses the different meaning such as the old couple killing themselves. Not only did the couple watch cranes relax in the tall, marsh grass, they were the cranes. Mr. and Mrs. Crane.
The sniper sees a truck appear and a woman walks up toward it and begins speaking to the driver. The truck has a machine gun manned by a soldier stationed on its roof. After the woman finished speaking, the truck immediately starts shooting toward the sniper. The sniper shoots the gunman and then angrily kills the woman. Next the sniper gets shot in the arm by an opposing sniper located across the street. In the story it stated, “The head fell heavily on the turret wall. The woman darted toward the side street. The sniper fired again. The woman whirled around and fell with a shriek into the gutter.” It also stated, “He scooped to pick up his rifle. He couldn’t lift it. His forearm was dead.” This shows how the violence and assumption caused the sniper to kill the innocent women. The reason was his assumption that she was a bad person and killing her would be an outlet to his anger caused by the war.
There are many similarities in both “The Sniper” and “The Man He Killed”. For example, both of the men were soldiers in war. In the story the assassin
The Republican sniper in the beginning was, “too excited to eat.” Through this characterization, O’Flaherty shows the readers that before a battle starts, soldiers are not worrying about harming people, they are just excited to kill the enemies. When the sniper, “fired again” and the woman, “whirled round and fell with a shriek into the gutter.” The author makes the sniper casually kill an innocent woman, and never forms the emotions of the sniper, leading the readers to believe that the sniper does not care. Later on though, after the sniper kills his enemy he, “threw himself face downward onto the corpse.” The sniper clearly does not feel any remorse about killing innocent lives, but feels extreme remorse and curiosity for the sniper he killed. The use of characterization of the Republican sniper display how innocent lives being lost are lesser than people that the sniper knows