In the "The Sniper," how does the author contrast war and a lovely summer night in the beginning of the story. Write the lines that show this...

Liam O'Flaherty's anti-war short story "The Sniper" is set in the Irish capital during the Battle of Dublin, which was waged at the beginning of the Irish Civil War. The battle was waged on the streets and lasted about a week. At this time the Four Courts, a government building, was under siege by Free State troops who were being armed and financed by Great Britain.

In the first paragraph O'Flaherty begins with two sentences...

Liam O'Flaherty's anti-war short story "The Sniper" is set in the Irish capital during the Battle of Dublin, which was waged at the beginning of the Irish Civil War. The battle was waged on the streets and lasted about a week. At this time the Four Courts, a government building, was under siege by Free State troops who were being armed and financed by Great Britain.

In the first paragraph O'Flaherty begins with two sentences that describe an idyllic Dublin summer night with "fleecy clouds" mirroring light on the Liffey River which runs through the center of the city just to the south of the Four Courts. This beautiful and serene summer night is abruptly interrupted by "heavy guns," "machine guns and rifles" and "dogs barking."

War is raging in this beautiful capital of the "Emerald Isle" and soon the reader is introduced to the main character, a Republican sniper on a rooftop. He is there to protect his comrades in the Four Courts as they are under attack from British aided Free State troops.