Setting and its Conflicts
Settings create conflicts in the real world and in books. In the stories “The Sniper” a short story by Liam O’Flaherty and “The Most Dangerous Game” a short story by Richard Connell the settings create conflict for the characters. “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. The main character, a Republican sniper, encounters a sniper who is a Free Stater who traps him on a rooftop. “The Most Dangerous Game” takes place on an island in the Caribbean called Ship-Trap Island. The main character is Sanger Rainsford a hunter, when he falls off his ship he swims to Ship-Trap Island. There he meets General Zaroff a hunter who takes the game way too far. Rainsford finds out that the General hunts humans in the island and that he will be the next to be hunted. In both short stories, the setting creates conflicts for the characters throughout the story. In “The Sniper” the setting creates many conflicts throughout the story. One is when …show more content…
The narrator says, “The enemy on the opposite side covered his escape. He must kill that enemy and he could not use his rifle” (113). This quote is an example of how the setting creates a conflict for the main character. The sniper is trapped on the roof because the setting is in enemy territory. Another example of conflicts caused by the setting is in the end when the Republican sniper decides to ID the sniper that he killed. The narrator explains, “ Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face” (114). This quote shows how the setting of a civil war caused the sniper to shoot his brother. This is because the snipers family was split over the civil war and fought for different sides. These examples show how the setting creates large conflicts for the main