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Life. It has its ups and downs, the good and the bad, all of which ultimately result in significant emotional situations. Some of these encounters are life changing while others are not. However, the fact of the matter is people don’t remember what happened during the situation, but rather how the reacted to it. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” the protagonist is thrown into a tremendous emotional situation in which his emotions take over what he knows to be reality and throw his entire world into a the realm of fantasy. Throughout “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, Farquhar’s mind altered his perception of time, distorted his sense of sight and a misleading sense of hearing causes his reality to be awry when he gets himself caught up in a very emotional predicament .

Believe in yourself, and you can do it. Ever heard that quote? Probably. Maybe your parents said, “Just believe in yourself, and everything will turn out okay.” But that didn’t work out so well for Peyton Farquhar in ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ by Ambrose Bierce. In the short story, a well-to-do planter, named Peyton Farquhar goes to a restricted bridge, called Owl Creek Bridge. He is then hanged, but then escapes back to his wife. Right after, however, he dies and realizes he never left Owl Creek Bridge. The main theme in ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’, by Ambrose Bierce, is that people believe what they want to believe. This is supported by the fact that Peyton Farquhar wanted to believe that he made it back to his wife, he

Have you ever been in a class that seemed to go on forever, one day, but rushed by the next? How were you feeling differently those two days? With your different feelings, did the time seem to pass differently? This idea is a major topic in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce. This story is set during the American Civil War and follows Peyton Farquhar, who is supposed to be executed at Owl Creek Bridge. He awaited his death with apprehension, his life seemed to flash before his eyes. All of a sudden, Farquhar believed he was able to escape, running away from the bridge, only to reveal that he was hanging with a broken neck beneath the bridge. A major theme in the story is how people perceive time differently based on their emotions. This is demonstrated when Farquhar is anticipating his death, when it flashes back to the past, and when he is escaping from the execution.

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” succeeds in misleading the readers by the way Bierce represents the timing between the events that go on. In section III, there are a lot of details that serve a purpose in having the audience believing that he is escaping. When reading “The water, the banks, the forests, the now distant bridge, fort, and men, all were commingled and blurred” it allows the authors to picture him running far away from the bridge like he was making his “elaborate escape” (Bierce). It was as if he finally broke away from the soldier and that he was going to be saved. Everything in Section III is emphasized as reality to the audience as if it is really happening, though it is all Peyton’s thoughts right before his death.

Peyton Farquhar dies. Although the story vividly pictures him escaping his fate, the last line of the tale describes him hanging under the bridge with a broken neck. One might suffer from temporary shock after reading, but Ambrose Bierce, the author of “An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge”, slides foreshadowing into his work in order to hint the audience of the conclusion. Bierce uses imagery, plot elements, and his character’s thoughts to let readers have a guess at Peyton Farquhar’s final fate.

Death, a difficult topic, a time when you no longer live, no longer breathe, the deadline in one’s life where they abruptly cease to exist. The topic of death is spoken of in many forms of literature, including a short story by Ambrose Bierce; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Farquhar, is the main character in this story who is being hung for trying to set a Union bridge on fire. Throughout this story, Bierce tells us through imagery of what thoughts and feelings Peyton goes through, as he comes face to face with death. We can see this through the common ideology of death, how Peyton explains his surroundings, and the outcome Peyton

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is written in the third person limited omniscient point of view. The narrator is telling the story as if observing it from outside any of the characters, yet you know everything that Peyton is feeling and thinking with great detail. This method of telling the story very effectively reinforces the idea that this inherent want and need for survival is something that can be found in nearly all humans. If the story had been told in first person by Peyton, this would not be so much

I am critiquing Ambrose Bierce on his work Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge which was published in 1891, in a collection of stories titled Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. After being published in a San Francisco newspaper in 1890 the movie version was produced in 1962 by two French producers, Marcel Ichac and Paul Roubaix. The story for the film was adapted and directed by Robert Enrico. The film won these awards 1962 Cannes Film Festival, 1963 Academy Award, and, Live Action Short Film First Prize: Best Short Subject. The theme of this film is how time can influence your outlook on life.

Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” portrays the inevitable nature associated with death and the aspects that make our reality real when compared to imagined experiences. Ambrose Bierce using realism to illustrate the turmoil that exists within Farquhar, his ambition to be more recognized within the south, his great love for his wife and kids, and his hopes to evade death. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” starts off with discussing the ceremonial traits of the execution Farquhar is about to receive. Following that it explains the initial events that

Realism is a literary movement with characteristics that are clearly evident in the story, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge. The main character’s optimistic attitude and detailed descriptions makes the story seem believable whether it is or not. An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge includes the Realism characteristics of events in the story make it seem more plausible. The success of Bierce’s surprise ending depended on the believability of the world he established at the beginning of the story.

The first part of the short history ‘’An Occurrence at the Owl Creek Bridge’’ is about a man with his hands tied behind his back being hanged on a bridge by a group of soldiers. During his execution, the man looks down at the water below him and begging to think about different ways he could scape home to see his wife. He idealizes that the best way to escape is through the water by submerging himself. Then quickly, he could be freeing his hands from the bandings, removing the noose around his neck and pushing up to the surface.

Has it ever occurred to you what the author’s intentions are while reading their story? While reading any type of story, the audience often tries to comprehend the text. However, people often get different interpretations of the same reading. While looking through different examination lens this tends to happen more often. When reading the same text, but looking through different lens, the readers will get two different interpretations.

Time can be good or bad depending on how it is perceived. When in moments of distress, time can go extremely slow or when having fun, time can go fast. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge written by Ambrose Bierce starts by Peyton Farquhar being prepared to be hanged for interfering with the railroad. He then goes into a dream state where he is free and has escaped to his wife and kid. Farquhar is harshly taken away from this dream with the snap of the rope and him proceeding to be hanged. Bierce Uses many literary techniques in the story to support his motif of time such as imagery, symbolism and characterization.

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge written by Ambrose Bierce in 1890, almost three decades after The Civil War, was based on a real event that happened as he served as a soldier in the Civil War. With his vehemence as a critic, his motto, "Nothing matters", along with his sardonic view of human nature that was in his work, is how he became known as Bitter Bierce.

Bierce uses characters in his short story to show the inhumanities of war. The main protagonist in the story was a man named Peyton Farquhar. Farquhar was the man in the story serving his punishment of a hanging (Tabachnick). Farquhar was a southern plantation owner who was unable to fight in combat, so to prove himself he attempted to interfere with the building of the Union railroad that led to a fort. He was being hanged as a punishment for what he had one by the Union army. Right before his hanging, he flashed back to what he had done to deserve his punishment. He also thought of his family and how he could escape the execution by freeing his hands from the ropes and diving into the river, which was right beneath him. His hallucination continues with his journey of jumping into the river and dodging bullets from the Union army and escaping into the forest to try to find and escape route back to his house. At the moment he finds his house, it says he ran up to his wife