History and My Story » The Sniper http://buell.edublogs.org Mary Lou Buell Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:38:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Revisiting “The Sniper” http://buell.edublogs.org/2008/04/02/revisiting-the-sniper/ http://buell.edublogs.org/2008/04/02/revisiting-the-sniper/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:46:45 +0000 buell http://buell.edublogs.org/2008/04/02/revisiting-the-sniper/ Now that we have learned a little bit about Irish Independence and the Irish Civil War, a short story you read a few months ago with Mr. Corcoran might make a little more sense.  Re-read Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper.  If you have misplaced your copy,  you may use the link in the post I made earlier today. 

Please comment on the author’s point of view.  Note that I am referring to the opinion, attitude, purpose and viewpoint of Mr. O’Flaherty as opposed to the POV of the narrator in the story.  This story first appeared in 1923 in the London publication The New Leader.  O’Flaherty was living in London at the time.  Do you think the fact that O’Flaherty was not in Ireland during the Civil War affected his POV?

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