Ambrose Bierce’s Experience During the Civil War and Its Influence on His Writing

Upon reaching the creek, the child proceeds to jump back across, seeing that the stones he is using are all stained red from the blood of those more fortunate to have fled earlier. Looking back across the creek towards his followers, he notices that upon reaching the water the men appear to have reached their goal and begin to drink, however they are able, some even dunking their heads, but that upon obtaining the water they had not the energy to back away or pull themselves out and they die there as they lay. Waving his sword overhead to spur on the rest of the men, the boy motions onward through the brush, toward the beacon of light shining in the sky. Upon making his way up to the crest and seeing the column of fire reaching into the sky the child begins to dance and cavort with his shadow; not a living thing is in sight but that is of no importance for the child is pleased by the spectacle. Rushing here and there, looking for additional fuel to throw on the fire, the child is disappointed to find everything is too heavy, so in surrender he flung his sword instead.

He wakes up to a glorious midnight black sky full of bright stars. For a second he forgets where

They make it out of the fight alive, and return back to their trenches “becoming something like men

Gabriel stays in the war effort for two years, writing to his family often, but one day the fight leads him to his own backyard. With many injured men,

He is creating this event as a fact by using the precise language of a military drill, for example "position known as support", "parade rest", "hammer resting on the forearm". These details have a thematic effect as well- one Bierce identifies explicitly. The goal of establishing the reality of the situation is reinforced by the geographical and political references, for example "Alabama", "Federal". The arrangement of the troops has a thematic significance as well; Bierce makes the meaning of the ordered ranks explicit.

Ambrose Bierce was an American Civil War soldier, journalist, and author. He was born on the twenty forth of June 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio. He fought in the American Civil War where he suffered a near fatal injury and was inspired to write several of his short stories. After the war he became a successful journalist, and later, an author. He is believed to have died in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1904. Bierce is one of the most well known authors in American history, writing stories that are both interesting and horrifying. Bierce was, perhaps, one of the most influential authors in modern horror and suspense.

Our main character, Paul, is a german soldier fighting in the middle of world war one to the very end of the war. In the beginning of the story, we find that Paul is a soldier in the german army and is sent to the front lines. We also learn about Paul’s friends named Tjaden, Kat, Müller, Kropp and Haie who are serving with him in his unit. We find out that Paul has not yet seen combat yet, and is only in the reserves. Later on, we read that Paul was sent to the front lines and is hit by an artillery barrage that kills

He married a woman, in whom he had little knowledge of, twelve days before he left to fight in Europe. The second man in the story is Al Stephenson, a seargent in the army, who fought as an infantryman from Africa, through Italy, into Germany. Al, worked at a local bank and was married with two children and was in his early forties when he returned to Boone City. The third man was a teenager named, Homer Wermels, who had entered the war at seventeen, as a Navy seaman and was severly injured from a torpedo striking his ship in the Pacific. Homer’s nervous system was damaged and as a result had difficulty walking, controling his arms, and spoke with slurred speech.

He tears his way through the wreckage, hunting for medical supplies, canteens of water, food and any thing he thought necessary for he and his sole companion's

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, an American author and Civil War soldier was known to many as being a negative and sardonic person. He was a very obnoxious man that lived by certain mottos. His enthusiasm as a critic, the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work and his famous motto “Nothing Matters,” earned him the famous nickname “Bitter Bierce.”

A couple of years after the war Ambrose Bierce started his carrier in literature, many of his early poetry being in the Californian, a major newspaper in California. Ambrose’s writings

Morris’s theme in his book “Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company” is to explain the life of Ambrose Bierce before, during and after the civil war. Morris wrote the book to demonstrate Bierce’s life struggle that lead him to write his works. The book is written in chronological order describing his life before, during, and after the army. Morris used multiple manuscripts, newspapers, and works from Ambrose Bierce to write the book.

this sets up the context and intent of the novel and implies that even though a young generation of men may have survived the war physically, they were undoupbtly destroyed by it mentally.

He opens the closet door where his guns and ammunition are kept. He grabs a gun a some ammunition. He then hears another crash from another room, a rock has shattered a window.

Death is inevitable in every person’s life, but death in these character’s lives is easily predicted to be early, and this represents the sadness and sorrows in the innocence of war. There are many ways to die, and war is the saddest way for that to occur, but at the same time,