My home was charmless; it was not home to me; on parting from it, I could not feel that I was leaving any thing which I could ha
ve enjoyed by staying. My mother was dead, my grandmother lived far off, so that I seldom saw her. I had two sisters and one brother, that lived in the same house with me; but the early separation of us from our mother had well nigh blotted the fact of our relationship from our memories. I looked for home elsewhere, and was confident of finding none which I should relish less than the one which I was leaving. If, however, I found in my new home hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness, I had the consolation that I should not have escaped any one of them by staying.
“The Sniper” uses irony to demonstrate how war reduces human beings to mere objects. ... As feared, once he lights the match, “a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof” (O'Flaherty 1). As if on command, the enemy sniper shoots at any sign of movement, alike to a machine.
Friendship is very important for Captain Nobody. His family and friend give him the strength to help those in need. He believed that he should overcome his fears in order to help his friends. He believed that he should be kind and helpful to his friends and to those people in need.