The war between Republicans and Free Staters was waging, a Republican sniper lay waiting to get a chance to shoot his enemy in the dark night. He lit a cigarette but was spotted quickly, he had to dodge the bullets that came his way. As an enemy car was spotted, the sniper shot the enemies that were visible, but he was shot on the forearm by a man on the opposite roof. He cleaned the wound as fast as he could and came up with a plan. He let his enemy think he was dead by putting his hat on his gun and letting the man shoot it. He let the hat and riffle fall making his enemy think he was dead. He used his riffle to shoot the enemy once he was in plain sight. The sniper felt remorse and guilt for what he had done. He wanted to see the enemies face before reporting the good news to his commander, when he turned the body over he look into his brother's face.
The Theme I think that the theme of this story is that everything is not always how it looks. This is expressed in the story when the sniper, through out the whole story thinks that the man on the opposite roof is his enemy. Where in fact, all along it was his brother.
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