War happens when ambition goes too far. But what they don't realize is that war is not worth the trouble, it causes to much pain and loss of life. From the perspective of the sniper, this story shows his experience as a republican sniper in a Irish civil war. During a mission, he is laying on a roof killing everything that walks into his sights. He is then confronted by another sniper. He eventually kills his enemy and reaches the ground. After being shot at by machine gun fire, he reaches the corpse of the dead sniper to realize that he was his brother from the other side of the war. In The Sniper, Liam O’Flaherty teaches us how war is not worth the pain and loss it causes. It shows us this because this story's the image of modern gorilla …show more content…
After he kills his last enemy, he throws down his revolver with enough force to make it go off and fire a bullet. "The lust of battle died inside him. He was bitten by remorse.” The meaning of this quote was that he began to regret killing the people that he had come in contact with. This means that there is much death in war.
By the end the battle is over and it leaves and dread and regret in the sniper. Eventually after going through machine gun fire the sniper plays face-to-face with the man he shot and sees his brother. "The sniper turned over the dead body and sees his brothers face." This means that the sniper realizes what he had done and wishes he hadn't. This is an example that in the war people do things that they wish they had not.
In the story The Sniper, The sniper’s experience shows us that war is more pain and loss then it is worth. By the end of the story the sniper had gone through something that no one should have to. The theme emerges when he sits on the roof, it refines when he kills his brother and it is developed when he finds his brother's corpse. The lesson in the end is to avoid conflict and to find other ways to deal with differences then starting a