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The Republican sniper begins the story concerned only with his most immediate problems—his hunger, his desire to light a cigarette, and his desire to survive and defeat his enemies. He ends up being confronted by the question of the destructive divisiveness of war. The sniper contends with his glee and eagerness to kill his enemy even as he also feels remorse and loss at the inhumanity of war. His human impulse to identify the man he has killed at the end of the story leads him to discover that he is very intimately aware of his enemy’s humanity, as his enemy is also his brother.
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The sniper thought the noise would wake the dead.
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The Republican sniper smiled and lifted his revolver above the edge of the parapet...his hand trembled with eagerness.
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Then when the smoke cleared, he peered across and uttered a cry of joy. His enemy had been hit.
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The lust of battle died in him. He became bitten by remorse…he revolted from the sight of the shattered mass of his dead enemy. His teeth chattered, he began to gibber to himself, cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing everybody.
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He felt a sudden curiosity as to the identity of the enemy sniper whom he had killed…Perhaps he had been in his own company before the split in the army.
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Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face.
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Republican Sniper Quotes in The Sniper
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The sniper thought the noise would wake the dead.
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The Republican sniper smiled and lifted his revolver above the edge of the parapet...his hand trembled with eagerness.
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Then when the smoke cleared, he peered across and uttered a cry of joy. His enemy had been hit.
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The lust of battle died in him. He became bitten by remorse…he revolted from the sight of the shattered mass of his dead enemy. His teeth chattered, he began to gibber to himself, cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing everybody.
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He felt a sudden curiosity as to the identity of the enemy sniper whom he had killed…Perhaps he had been in his own company before the split in the army.
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Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face.
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