The Sniper
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1. The document is a short story written by Irish author Liam O'Flaherty about a republican sniper during the Irish Civil War in June 1922. 2. As the sniper lies wounded on a rooftop, he kills the enemy sniper and car that spot him. When he goes to identify the dead body of the enemy sniper, he discovers it is his own brother. 3. The story highlights the human cost of civil war through the tragic moment when the sniper realizes he has killed his own brother.
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William Gay
b. October 27, 1943
d. February 23, 2012
Lewis County, TN
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Born in Lewis County, the son of Bessie and Arthur Gay, a sharecropper who also worked at area sawmills.
William became a voracious reader at age 12, and began writing at age 15.
Graduated from Lewis County High, and joined the U.S. Navy which promised an opportunity to travel.
Served a four year tour as a radar operator, his ship making stops in Japan and Vietnam.
William returned home in 1965 and found work at a drive-in movie theater near Decatur, Alabama, built pinball machines in Chicago, and was employed at a cardboard box factory in New York.
He returned to Lewis County in 1968, and lived there until his death in 2012.
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Gay
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William
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Between 1968 and his success as a writer, William worked construction as a painter, carpenter, and dry wall hanger.
He continued during that time to write but had no success publishing because he did not know how the game was played.
In 1998, William began sending short stories to literary magazines published by universities, rather than to the big publishing houses and national magazines.
Almost immediately, two of his short stories were purchased, one by The Georgia Review and another by The Missouri Review. Soon, editors were contacting him and asking about his other work, including novels.
For the last years of his life, William concentrated on his writing & painting.
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William
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BIOGRAPHY
In a 2001 interview, William said of that time period before he began publishing:
Ive always felt sort of like in-between things. Like I fit in when I was working construction. I more or less could do my job. I didnt get fired. I got paid. I could do it. But it was always sort of like working undercover.
Now when Im meeting academic people and going to these things they have, basically its still the same thing. Im still undercover.
Then, I was sort of a closet intellectual passing as a construction worker. Now, Im a construction worker passing as an academic. I dont belong in either place, really.
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William did not like commas, saying they retard the forward motion of a sentence.
He also did not use quotation marks, a style he picked up from novelist Cormac McCarthy, one of his major influences.
William won the Michener award for fiction, and a 2007 Ford Foundation Grant for U.S. Artists, of $50,000.
He also wrote extensively about music for national magazines, including Oxford American and Paste.
He left two unfinished novels, The Lost Country and The Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train, enough unpublished short stories for a second collection, and a novella, Little Sister Death (published September 2015).
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Narrator: who is telling the story?
First person (I, we, us);
Third person omniscient narrator is all-knowing, all revealing
of characters;
Third person limited omniscient takes us inside the minds of
some of characters;
Third person object.Presentation4[1]![Presentation4[1]](https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/presentation41-101008210059-phpapp02-thumbnail.jpg?width=560&fit=bounds)
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Here are a few connections I see between the discussion and the short story:
1. The story reveals that the sniper ends up killing his own brother, showing how war can tear families apart. The discussion of frequently arguing with siblings connects to this theme.
2. The cause of the civil war in the story is not explicitly stated, mirroring real-life civil wars that are often complex with multiple underlying causes like disputes over land, resources, or ideology.
3. The discussion of whether one would fight in a war over religion or land relates to possible motivations for the civil war described in the story.
4. The old woman informing on the sniper's location could represent how war breeds distrust even betweenWar Poetry Presentation
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The document summarizes war poetry by several British poets from World War I. It discusses Wilfred Owen, who wrote anti-war poems about trench warfare, and two of his poems: "Anthem for a Doomed Youth" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est". It also mentions Rupert Brooke's poem "The Soldier", which portrays dying for one's country as noble. Additionally, it analyzes Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" about the Crimean War, noting how the poem depicts death as inevitable but still honorable in war.Imperialism and examples joshua regina andrea aida sebastian world history
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The document contains 7 examples from Heart of Darkness that demonstrate imperialism and racism. The examples show Europeans describing Africans in derogatory and dehumanizing ways, attacking African villages, using Africans as slaves, and killing them simply to acquire resources like ivory. The Europeans are portrayed as having superior weapons and treating the natives as less than human. The conclusion notes that the examples reflect the imperialism and racism of European countries towards Africa during the time period, as they sought to expand their empires and industrialize without regard for African people.Imperialism and examples joshua regina andrea aida sebastian world history
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This document summarizes and provides examples from the novel Heart of Darkness relating to imperialism and racism. It describes several passages where the Europeans view the natives as less than human and treat them poorly, either describing their physical appearance in a derogatory way or using them as slaves. It also gives an example of a European character violently raiding a native village just to steal their ivory with no regard for their lives. Overall, the document analyzes how the novel portrays the harmful attitudes and actions of Europeans towards the African natives during the period of imperialism.K.p. (english for communication skills and pleasure ii)
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Here are the passive voice forms of the sentences:
1. The cow is fed by Ramu every morning.
2. A party is being given by them in her honour.
3. Both the flasks have been kept by him.
4. Gandhiji was assassinated by Godse.
5. The building was being repaired by them last night.
6. It had been abandoned by the people as useless.20th Century Literature in England
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The Sniper
- 1. Nelson J. Pagan L坦pez Mrs. Abreu 9-o 26/10/09
- 2. It was the River Liffey and its estuary which drew the first settlers to build the communities which became Dublin in Ireland. Night in June.
- 3. 1922 Civil War of Ireland
- 4. The Civil War between north and south
- 5. A republican sniper. He had a face of a student, thin, eyes of a cold fanatic and the eyes of a man who was used to looking at death.
- 6. Old women: Her head was coverd by a tattered shawl. Sinper of the free staters - The enemy in the gray monster
- 7. A sniper is on a roof top in a warm night of June. Near O Connell Bridge. Here and there through the city machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night. He knew his enemies were close and that any wrong movement could cause him life. As he was waiting for the right moment to get his enemies he his enemies he has an encounter with an enemy car and an informer. The sniper raised his rifle and fired and kill then. But the sniper on the other rooftop shot rang out and got him on his forearm. The sniper lay still for a long time nursing his wounded arm and planning his escape . Taking off his cap he placed it over the muzzle of his rifle, he fooled his enemy to belive he had killed him and watched the opportunity and killed the Free Stater sniper he watched as he fell and decided to go down and look for his company commander.
- 8. When the sniper reached the street he felt the curiosity as to the identity of the enemy sniper he had killed. The sniper went across the street. A machine gun tore up the ground around him but he escaped. But he would receive the most horrible moment of any war as he turned over the dead body he looked into his brothers face.
- 9. I enjoyed this short story because it was simple and easy to read. But the last part of the story had a great impact . Its a reflection of life before and life today. The war always has consequences that mark the lives of people. War is the same: men against men always.
- 10. -What was the republican snipers plan to escape from the free staters sniper? -When the sniper reached the street level he felt the curiosity to identify what? - What happened when he turned over the dead body?
- 12. (August 28, 1896- September 7, 1984) was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer and major figure in the Irish Renaissance. Liam was born in the remote village of Gort Capall. Like many people in Ireland at the time, Liam was also born into poverty. Growing up, Liam spoke the Irish language. However, he was not encouraged to do so by members of his family.
- 13. - breastwork : Atemporary fortification . - parapet : Is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony . - fleecy : Covered with, made of, or resembling fleecy. - lodged : To establish or settle in a place. - wound : An injury to the body that typically involves laceration or breaking of a membrane. - paroxysm : A sudden violent emotion or action. - gutter : A trough used to catch and carry rainwater. - turret : A little tower; an ornamental structure at an angle of a larger structure. - muzzle : The discharging end of a weapon.
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