In O’Flaherty’s story entitled “The Sniper”, a young sniper is laying on a roof lighting a cigarette when shots are fired at him. He then shots a woman and a soldier when he is struck in the arm. He is unable to move his right arm, but somehow he manages to shoot at a sniper across the street so he can escape. After he begins to leave the street, he comes back curious of what man he shot. He flips the man over the discovers that he has shot and killed his brother. I think the author’s message about murder in society is that every person that is killed during a war is someone’s family and that killing people might have a just cause, but it generally has a bad effect. The fallen nature of man is shown in this since this man ended up killing his own brother, which is the most evil thing that can really be done by man. I think that killing is never justified unless you are forced to kill someone in self-defense. I think killing is never justified when you do it without any reason whatsoever. I think an example of this is when the government kills people through use of the death penalty. Through O’Flaherty’s story, “The Sniper”, war, violence, and murder are thrown in a different light and show that in no situation are these acts morally right.
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