If one looks at this situation without Kantian analysis, the attack seems to be caused by a trigger happy soldier who was looking for an excuse to murder. The “weapon” he claimed to see was actually a camera. In reality, the soldier fired at unarmed civilians, a photographer, and children. Considering the end result, the soldier made a poor choice. But if we analyze the context of the situation, the soldier’s actions were warranted.
I halted and held my breath.” (Beah, 35) This is when the rebels invaded a village he was in and started shooting at him. You can sense the terror that he felt when he was shot at. Later, when Ishmael is recruited to the army, he has the same feeling towards guns. “He gave me the gun. I held it in my trembling hand.
They lunged towards me and landed on top of me, knocking my gun out of my hand. It was the enemy; he got up and grabbed his gun. I struggled to get mine, so kicked him in the shin hoping it would delay him getting to his weapon. He stumbled past his weapon as I managed to grab mine. There was no way to get out of this position, it was a kill or be killed situation.
From then on there was a continuous shooting of guns and cannons going off, day and night. The Texans stopped their fire to save their bullets. The Texans knew that sooner or later Santa Anna's army would get over the walls of the fort. They would need their bullets for when the Mexicans came over the walls of the fort. With every attack Santa Anna's army got closer to the walls of the fort.
I finally got a gun and shot the man who killed some of our men. It wasn’t something I wanted to do but it was something I had to do. Everyone was so happy that I shot him because the fighting stopped. The Governor said I deserved a reward and asked me what I wanted. I thought about it and I finally decided.
“You never know who your enemy is.” I found this statement to be a reoccurring theme in “The Sniper” while reading. I believe this is a perfect theme because the sniper had no idea who was on the other side and would not have known if he didn’t look at the dead body. The main character in this selection was not officially named but was referred to as the sniper. In the selection the sniper had both an internal and external conflict. The external conflict was that he was fighting in the middle of the war and the only way to survive was to kill all the opponents.
This means that the snipers motives were pretty much to kill his enemy, and defend himself at the same time. In this story, it states that his eyes had the cold gleam of a fanatic. That his eyes were were deep and thoughtful, eyes that were used to looking at death. A person who is not experienced when it comes to killing and stuff like that, wont get a sniper and go on a roof and start killing people with a different view on the independence of the British nation. Normally, only people who are experienced in the war field will engage in war activity.
Rainsford froze as he realizes there was no time to doge the shot of the general. He closed his eyes and waited, he wondered what it feels like with a bullet digging inside his body until he is finished to the last moment. A few seconds later, Rainsford opened his eyes and noticed the General throwing out his pistol to the ground below. “Consider yourself lucky,” said the General. “I forgot to load the pistol.” “Attending in a battle without any weapons is just like a hunter who does not know how to hunt,” Rainsford said.
I could not believe he could do such a thing given the fact he somewhat had a heart in the beginning. The officer goes from being against his nation and the people’s beliefs to a monster that killed and innocent creature of life. “It seemed dreadful to see the great beast Lying there, powerless to move and yet powerless to die, and not even to be able to finish him. I sent back for my small rifle and poured shot after shot into his heart and down his throat” (George Orwell). He was doing too much going after his own personal rifle just to kill the elephant.
Joe Bonham was a soldier who almost lost his life fighting for his country. If he wasn’t unconscious when the bomb dropped and he lost his legs and almost died, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be thinking for himself, ’‘this is great, I fought for my country and died with honor.’’ Almost everybody wants to live and taking another persons life is to me the worst think anybody can do. There is not anything worth killing for, not democracy, not peace and certainly not when u have the intensions of