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Skribentens beskrivelse af The sniperThe story is told in a restricted third-person’s point of view. The readers have access to the snipers thoughts but not the other characters’. It is chronology since it is told as the story develops without jumps in time. Unlike most short stories the climax occurs at the very end when the enemy sniper’s identity is revealed. The story is very easy to understand because of the use of short sentences as “Cautiously he raised himself and peered over the parapet. There was a flash and a bullet whizzed over his head. He dropped immediately. He had seen the flash. It came from the opposite side of the street.” (p. 64, ll. 27-30). The use of language is quite effective because it is so alive with imagery. It is filled with comparisons such as “… guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on line farms.” (p. 64 ll.3-4) or “… his right arm was paining him like a thousand devils.” (p. 67, ll. 7-8) and metaphors like “… the noise would wake the dead.” (p. 65, l. 15). Furthermore O’Flaherty humanizes dead things by giving them human abilities as when “guns roared” (p. 64, l. 2) or when “Morning must not find him wounded on the roof.” (p. 66, ll. 24-25). |
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