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Theme Of The Sniper By Liam O Flaherty

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The Sniper written by Liam O’Flaherty is about a man that is on the lookout on top of a building and when he finally claims a victim, the corpse reveal is his brother. The Scarlet Ibis by by James Hurst is about two brothers that are birds and one is crippled. The normal brother is embarrassed of his crippled brother so he teaches him to walk. One day, they were running through a storm and the normal one left his crippled brother back. When the brothers guilt finally drives him back to get him, he has already passed. Both have similar themes of guilt and regret. They both also have different points of view of war.

The Scarlet Ibis is more of an emotional war rather than an actual war in The Sniper. The brother in Scarlet Ibis an emotional war because he is embarrassed by Doodle and gets really frustrated with him if he doesn't do perfect. He also didn’t help Doodle to walk because he felt sorry, he did it because it bothered him how much of a hassle he was to him. The text states “They did not know that I did it for myself; that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices, and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.” The Sniper is a physical war and more and about a civil war in Ireland. He is lookout on top of a building and gets spotted, he gets shot in the arm and is in a deadly …show more content…

You can tell there is misery because of the tone it is read in. You can tell a lot from the tone in a story and you really get a feel of the mood. An example of brotherhood in The Scarlet Ibis is when he takes Doodle to the Old Woman Swamp. He wanted to share the beauty with Doodle by watching the sunset. Doodle begins to cry because of how beautiful it was. He also tells Doodle he's going to teach him to walk. He was doing this for himself but he still helped him to

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‘’The Sniper" is a short story by Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty, set during the early weeks of the Irish Civil War, during the Battle of Dublin and "The Scarlet Ibis" is a short story written by novelist James Hurst. It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 and won the "Atlantic First" award. Each of the two stories have many likenesses and differences, in addition to focusing on the three same ideas. These three ideas are war, brotherhood, and regret. The war in “The Sniper” is an actual war.

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The scarlet Ibis, throughout the story the author compares and contrast the scarlet Ibis and Doodle. Showing how they are alike, different, and more alike than different it shows with the details and characterization of the characters how the two characters are compared and contrast to each other. Throughout the story it shows how doodle take on physical and mental obstacles not within his abilities to be able to achieve. In the story The scarlet Ibis the author shows details and characteristics to show how the scarlet ibis and Doodle are alike, in the story, it tells how the bird is from tropical lands meaning it is in an environment it is not adapted to survive in, while Doodle is stuck in a world where he has to try to live up

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