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An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge Short Story

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Does time stop or slow down during death? In the short story by Ambrose Bierce “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. The author extensively uses foreshadowing during the short story that manipulates the reader to lead towards the factors of symbolism, irony, setting, and viewpoint. They’re numerous viewpoints from the readers perspective of, symbolism, and irony that, indicate the timeline of Peyton Farquhar tragic death. Ambrose Bierce uses the time to manipulate the reader from understanding the plot, making it impossible to forecast most of the short story. The setting of the story is time and physical location the story actually never gives an actual date. Having a solid but, confusing setting of time throughout the story. The author uses the time to represent setting during the story the reader can’t identify the difference between the order of life as a continual progress of life. Payton Farquhar actually died during his hanging, generating his brain to believe that he's alive, Farquhar life flashes before his eyes, believing that he had survived the horrific ordeal, instead of dying, making the order of time dysfunctional to the reader. After a miraculous escape from the soldier’s, he returns home to his wife. Ultimately, he snaps back to reality and dies.The story might not have a solid order of time in Farquhar’s life. Having sporadic life events that don't follow the cycle of life. The author does distinguish the setting of historical timeline given the provided

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