Summary of The Sniper
In Dublin, it was a dark June night where the Republicans and the Free Staters were at civil war. A Republican sniper named O’Connell Bridge was laying on top of a roof watching for any Free Staters. He decided to take the risk of lighting a cigarette in the dark which made the enemy aware of where he was. All of a sudden a bullet flew over his head and he dropped immediately. Then he saw the enemies turret coming his way, but then an old woman who was an informer was informing his where about. But then the enemy in the turret and the old woman in the tattered shawl both got shot by the Republican sniper. From the opposite side of the roof the Republican sniper got shot by the enemy which wounded his forearm. After the Republican sniper thought about a plan to kill the enemy, he fooled the enemy into believing that he has killed him when it was a decoy. When the enemy gave up his location, he then killed the enemy who fell to the ground. The Republican sniper went to identify who he had killed, but then when he flipped over the body he realized he had killed his own brother.
I think the authors message is that he is against war because in the article about the sniper, when he had killed many people and when he saw the enemy’s body falling to the ground he felt “bitten by remorse and the sweat stood still in beads of his forehead, it weakened his wounds which then he revolted from the sight of the shattered mass of his dead enemy.” This basically means that he cannot believe he had killed this man which turned out to be his brother. To know now that he would have to live with killing his own brother and many others is a lot to take in. The author’s message is that the regret is not worth it and not to solve your problems or any situation with violence because honestly at the end of the day no one really wins, everyone is hurt either from physical damage or by mental/ emotional damage.
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