Today in class we discussed the ending of "The Sniper." We wondered why O'Flaherty chose to leave the end a mystery. We also discussed the importance of point of view and perspective when considering "The Sniper." We found that it was told from a third person limited point of view and talked about how we can understand O'Flaherty's own feelings about war through the events in the story.
I would like you to consider all that we discussed and complete ONE of the following creative assignments:
1. Compose a letter that the sniper might have written to his mother explaining what happened to his brother.
2. Finish the end of the story. The sniper has found out that he has shot his brother; what does he do next?
3. Compose a letter that O'Flaherty might have written to his editor about writing "The Sniper." Consider how he might have felt while writing the story and what his opinion might be on war.
Remember, we will also have a quiz on Thursday covering Unit 1 Vocabulary and "The Sniper." Complete Unit 1 Vocabulary. Study it!
STUDY TIPS:
1. Create flashcards! You can make vocabulary flashcards and flashcards to help you remember important facts about the stories (characters, events, conflicts, themes, etc.).
2. Meet up with or call a friend from class! Quiz each other on the vocabulary words. Also, ask each other questions about the stories.
3. Practice yourself! Rewrite the words and their meanings as many times as you need to without looking at the book. Create new sentences with the words to make sure you understand them. Then, examine the elements of a short story with both "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Sniper."
The sniper quickly picks up his brother and puts his head on his lap while he is screaming and calling for help..his brother was losing a lot of blood at that moment. a car pulled over to see what was going on,the sniper told the man that he needed to take his brother to the hospital immidiatly, the man was very kind enough to help the sniper take his brother to the hospital.when they got the hospital there were no free beds to put his dead brother so they had to wait..In the mean time the sniper called his mother to meet up with him at the hospital to tell him about the shooting that had happened that night.Hs mother rushed to the hospital because she thought something was wrong with him but she didnt think it was the brother because they were not in the same army..she got to the hospital and sniper told him everything that had happened that night..Then after they went to go see the dead body after they cleaneed it.
ReplyDeleteThe sniper was shocked , the tears ran down from his cheeks . All the flash came back , back to the countryside of Dubrin , the days before the civil war began.
ReplyDeleteThe Smith brothers were well-known and adored by people because they were the only men in town who were accepted by the national military. As he watched his beloved dead brother , he regreted shooting his "enemy" without observing his face . At that moment , he rose his gun to his head and "bang" an sound echoed all around .After few days , at his funeral the brother showed up with tear in his eyes.
The sniper started crying on top of his brother body he was screaming and shouting all over. Then he wanted to send a letter to his mother to explain the happened but at the end he realizes that he needed to speak with his mother. So when he turned back home he didn’t even need to talk because his mother had already understand the happened.
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I will chooses 2. Finish the end of the story. The sniper has found out that he has shot his brother; what does he do next?
ReplyDeleteThen the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face. His face became sad, he ask god why he do this to him why?why? the world become dark and it’s like will raining, he was regret , he hold his brother body walk out the war…………………….
The face of the sniper became white. He did realized that he had shot to his brother.
ReplyDelete"How I'll tell to my family?" he thought looking into his brother's face, "They will not forgive me". In fact his brother was the favorite of the family, everybody had loved him.
He was not sad after kill his brother, in fact he escaped without any compassion on what he had done.
He went away from Dublin, trying to forget what he did. He seemed strong and happy, but this was not right, i felt sad but he was a sniper, so how he could feel compassion for his brother that was against the Republicans.
After a lot of years he became sick, in fact he had a cancer and he had only some days after his death. He was old but he remembered what happened to his brother, and thinking of his death and the brother's one, his only wish was the forgiveness of his brother. He was young and ingenuous, so what he did was horrible, and that's why he asked his forgiveness the day of his death.
Some minutes after he died he remembered his white brother's face, and he started to cry and to think how the life have been if he had not killed his brother in the car during the Civil War.
Good job, everyone! Each of you chose to finish the story and each of you put so much emotion into it!
ReplyDeleteI really liked how Aini put a flashback in her story. It showed me that the two men have a history to their relationship. They had memories together and that makes it all the more sad!
One thing we all need to work on in the fluidity of our language! It mostly has to do with how we are using our verbs. Here are some examples:
"He did realized that he had shot to his brother."
"Did" is not necessary in this sentence. You only need simple past tense: He realized that he had shot his brother.
"So when he turned back home he didn’t even need to talk because his mother had already understand the happened."
"Had understand" is not proper. "Had understood" is correct. Rewrite like this: "So when he turned back home he didn't even need to talk because his mother had already understood what happened."