Introductory to ISU

My ISU will be based on the short story “The Sniper” written by Liam O’Flaherty. In this story it talks about a Republican sniper fighting against the Free Staters in a civil war. In this story the young sniper is shown as a brave, mighty hearted person who takes risks. He shows great hatred to war and to himself for fighting in the war. He is fed up with everything, seeing the lose of the innocence. In our society today there are still many wars happening all over the world. All this is happening just because of the bickering that happens between different sides, instead of a solution with peace and harmony, a war would be started. The Sniper will be connected to three other texts through thematic link which is inhumanity of war( dehumanization, loss of innocence). The three texts that will be thematically connected to The Sniper will be a poem called “Poem for War….Against War” by Dennis Arthur Dames, where the poet points out that war just leads to the unwanted death of people, the sniper also thinks this way in the story. The next text is a picture titled "Bloodz and Cripz, it's on", here there is a member from each gang, and the facial expression they have on their faces, as if something really bad has happened and they have hatred glowing in their eyes. The sniper in the short story may have had the same hatred inside him as the two guys, when he found out that, that the foe he killed turned out to be his brother. The third text is a youtube clip called "Soldiers Speak Out,"where soldiers who just returned from Afghanistan that war was almost like an insult to humanity. In the story the sniper must have felt the smae way looking at innocent people die everyday.