The short story “The Sniper” is
about a civil conflict between the Republicans and the Free Staters. It's about
on a man who is a Republican sniper taking on the opposing sides sniper, going
one on one, in about a streets distance. Snipers from both sides have a intense
showdown against each other. The Republican sniper is well prepared in the
fight and ready to pin off his opponent. The Free Staters sniper gets a hit on
the Republican sniper, but it's not too savior. The Republican sniper quickly
patches himself up and plans a fake death to make the other sniper think as if
he won the fight. But little does the Free Staters sniper know that his
opponent is alive and kills him with a surprise attack. The Free Staters sniper
is dead, but the Republican sniper feels a guilt and loses his excitement of battle.
After the Battle was over with the Republican sniper decides to head his way to
his enemy's position. As he starts to investigate the dead body, he was shocked
to find out that he was fighting his own brother.
What is the author's message? Provide evidence from the text and explain your thinking.
I believe that the authors message is that war can alter your judgment
and make you think indecisively to the situation created. In this story "The Sniper" there are two brothers
shooting and each other until one of them is shot to death. If they had
realized the fact that they were brothers before it was too late, they would be
in sudden shock and thinking if we had continued the battle one of them would
not have been breathing. “Then the sniper turned over the dead boy and looked
into his brother’s face.” I would only imagine how heart breaking and shocked
the Republican sniper would have been taking the life of his own brother and
living with that guilt for the rest of his life. He mistakenly killed his own
brother in the battle they had, and this was all because of the event called
war. Reading and thinking about this conflict with better decisions
that could have become the outcome to the
situation, makes me think of the unnecessary effects of war.
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