the Guests of a Nation elements of fiction

Frank O'Connor has held places among Ireland's most illustrious academics. He has also been a well-known short-story writer. Fiction is described as writing as exposition, especially short stories and books, that depicts nonexistent events and people that are not entirely based on history or reality. O'Connor often employs naturalistic fiction in his book The Guests of the Nation, and he frequently discusses war experiences, priesthood, and childhood. In the short story Guests of the Country, Frank O'Connor employs fiction to depict the conflict that men face as their duties as warriors need them to disregard the humanity of their opponents. In both life and writing, fiction exists when there is a difference between desire and reality.
The title of the story, Guests of the nation is a case of fiction. In the tale, the two Englishmen, Hawken and Belcher, are not guests yet rather detainees of the Irish fighters, Jeremiah Donovan, Noble, and the storyteller, Bonaparte. The difference between their genuine status as detainees and their evident part as guests is produced all through the story. The storyteller says that "I couldn't at the time see the purpose of me and Noble Guarding Belcher and Hawkins by any means, for it was my conviction that you could have planted that match down anyplace from this to Clare Galway and they'd have flourished there like a native weed" (O'Connor, Frank 591). Along these lines clearly the men had no aim of attempting to get away; they were carrying on like guests.
The contention with in the short story is an inside clash. The Irishmen are compelled to disregard all mankind when managing the foe amid battle. This was to a great degree hard for the watchmen in light of the fact that everyone except Donovan had become a close acquaintance with the detainees. It was expressed that if any Irish detainee was slaughtered by the English, then Hawkins and Belcher would be executed (O'Connor, Frank 592). This was hard for both the watchmen and the detainees in light of the fact that in spite of the fact that they realized that Hawkins and Belcher would have nothing to do with executions somewhere else, they would be the objective of discipline. As enemies, not by decision, the Irish must uphold this since they are on the lower hierarchy of leadership.
Fiction is also seen when Donovan shot Hawkins. The fiction is the defining moment of the activity in the plot of the story. Now, they all "stood as yet watching him settle out in the last agony." The very first shot did not work so the storyteller, Bonaparte was to shoot him once more. After this, Belcher started to giggle surprisingly all through the whole story and afterward started to talk too much. I see this as the falling activity promptly taking after the peak. It was as though he couldn't contain his feelings of what he had quite recently seen.
Belcher shows an extreme measure of nobility and poise, considering the conditions. Donovan then shoots Belcher in the back of the head. The gathering burrows a shallow grave and covers them. Feeney leaves and the men go to the house, where the old lady asks what they have finished with the Englishmen. No answer is given, yet she knows what exactly happened and she tumbles to her knees to pray. Noble does likewise. Bonaparte leaves the cottage and gazes toward the dull sky feeling little and lost. He says that he never felt the same about things until the end of time.
Symbolism is shown in the throughout the story as discussed here below. Pictures of light and dim happen frequently in the story, showing a complexity between the powers of murkiness (evil) and light (good). They additionally demonstrate the contention in the psyches of the dissidents, who battle with the inclination that the executions they perform are not advocated. Toward the finish of the story, the rest of the characters are left standing or imploring oblivious, typical of a triumph of shrewdness over good. As the men head into the forested areas, the light from the lamp sparkles faintly toward the end of the way. As they walk, their lives gleam, Bonaparte's expectation that the Englishmen would flee glimmers, the expectation that they won't be executed glints. After Hawkins is shot, he writhes in the throes of death and his life glimmers away. The single picture of the glinting light is typical of these ideas.
A standout amongst the most critical technique in Guests of the nation is O'Connor's mind blowing utilization of irony. An early case of irony, aside from the repetition of "chum" is the reference to the Irish moves that Belcher and Hawkins have realized, whose titles “The Siege of Ennis" "The Walls of Limerick," suggest, war, viciousness, and divisiveness, which undercut the agreement of the social event. Further, the storyteller's assertion to depict the timbre of Belcher's discourse, serene, ironically stands out from the reason the British officers are kept hostage, and in addition their destiny.



Works Cited
O'Connor, Frank. Guests of the Nation. Dublin: Poolbeg, 1993. Print.