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How does the author depict the turmoil and plight in a war torn city in ‘The Sniper’?
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How does the author depict the turmoil and plight in a war torn city in 'The Sniper'? The author Liam O'Flaherty starts his story by making a proper setting for a war raged city of Dublin. He directly gets to the point. There is no complication what so ever about the way he has made the setting. He sets the city in darkness except for the moon light which gives a 'pale light as of approaching dawn.' The evening has passed away into hours of darkness and everything seems calm like the darkness until the poet describes the thundering of the heavy guns, 'heavy guns roared.' He compares these guns to the 'dogs barking on the lone farms.' He probably says this because just like the dogs the guns are breaking the silence of the night for no proper reason. The dogs barking in fields are intruders, in the same...
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