The Sniper

        Elijah and X become the main big snipers they are the two best shots in their platoon and they are both chosen to go and shoot. The two men are very good snipers at the start Elijah is the main sniper and X just spots the hun that they are able to hunt and kill. They are a very good team killing an average of 5 hun a month. X doesn't get very much credit for anything because he isn't the one killing the hun. The one day they both go out with snipers and go to spot hun to shoot. They sit out there for hours and they don't see anything. X is begining to thing that there is no great sniper from the Germans. Elijah and X's main objective is to be better and to be the best snipers around they want to kill this hun sniper so that they will be the best sniper in the while war. The two men are very good snipers because they think of the sniping to be just like hunting. They have to be still and calm and not move they are to kill the other hun which they think are just like animals it becomes a job. They are to kill the other hun and that a order and what the guys want is to be the best snipers. "My rifle is steady on a place just above the rifle poking out from under the corpse and without any more thinking i pull the trigger"(pg 129).  When sunset came one day Elijah wants to shoot his rifle and he finds a cow out in the middle of the field between the two trenches. X does not want him to shoot but Elijah wants to and reassure him they will not be spotted. Elijah shoots the cow and it explodes everywhere then something beside it moves and they hear a bang and Elijah yells in pain, X sees the sniper and shoots and kills him. X has killed the great sniper. They are both happy and they have killed the sniper, they can now be called he best.