One day a long time ago in an old house above a old wooden bridge, there was a boy named Xavier. He had just moved with his sister’s, Bell who was four, and his baby sister Sophie who was a month old. Xavier is sixteen with dark brown hair, and for some odd reason he always smelled like chocolate and mint, he was around 6”1 and a Junior in high school. Plus he had a secret to hide, he was wanted dead for saving his mom and sister from being killed, wanted people are very tricky by the way, his mom was his guard. She had unimaginable powers she was a wiccan, a witchcraft religion, and she was the last of her kind too, and the sister well the people thought she was like her mom.
Not long after they moved in, Bell started acting strange
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He had found her once before in Missouri where they had lived. He had tried to run her off the blacktop where she was playing cards, and some how he had found her again. As he drew closer, he braced himself for the unthinkable. He was going to die and his mom would live as the semi he was within feet Xavier had remember one thing, he had his sisters with him so he quickly picked them up and throw them off the bridge into the grass. Then he had killed the driver and himself. You might ask yourself why did he have to save his mom and his sister’s, but that is a question only he can answer for you.
It has been fourteen years since the accident has happened. A new family had moved in to the same house they had two daughters Sophia she is fourteen, and her sister Isabella who is eighteen, and there 's this odd thing about a Isabella though she smells like chocolate and mint. Plus both had been adopted thirteen years ago when their mother had died. The sisters have no idea of their brother and they do not know of their real mothers cause of death.
One day after school Isabell went to the bridge so she could write an essay on how the water works, and while she was studding the water something weird happened. There was a water bubble under the bridge that magically appeared below her. She heard a voice say “run, hide, and stay away from here”. She was so scared she fainted. When she had finally awaken, she was in her bed, and she thought
This is an example of how the closer he comes to death, the slower time seems to move for him. In one moment the river is moving rapidly and in the next it is described as sluggish. Yet through the anticipation time is speeding up. It is as if the suspense has frozen time all together.
Above, a boat seemed to be knifing through the water, incredibly fast. She propelled herself out from underneath the water, trying to get their attention, but they were still oblivious to her state. Her heart began convulsing. It increased in intensity and speed, like a bird trapped in a cage. The rising pressure of trapped air seared in agony in her throat. She gave into the pressure and gave up on all effort. Her flaccid body floated in the water for a few seconds and then started sinking down to the black, heartless bottom of the sea. She no longer felt pain, but an ineffable comfort. A few more seconds passed and for some inexplicable reason, she suddenly had the energy and the will to get out of the predicament. She started flailing again, only this time she felt herself going up faster and with more force. She could make it. She emerged from under the water, and then she realised the sudden surge of energy was because of someone pulling her. After taking in a lungful of air, she began to wheeze and cough, and then she began to panic. She just wanted to be back on land. She wanted to be back on land with her
Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a story about a man’s final moments on earth before he is hanged and how he got there. There is a struggle within the character Farquhar of who he is and who he thinks he is. This causes different views throughout the story between reality and a fantasized reality. This plays a big role in the story because in part three of the story he thinks he is far superior and had outwitted his captures and escaped without a scratch after the rope broke and fell into the water. In reality he had been hanged and his body was swaying back and forth. This story had more meaning then just the top layer of being just about a guy who is being hanged. The meaning of this story is how fluid time moves, by this I mean how time seems to flow like a river it can move fast to slow and even seem to stand still. It has a secondary meaning of how we can fantasize another reality that can cause troubles for us. By this I mean you can envision your self into another world when you are still in the actual world, this can cause you to get yourself into a lot of trouble.
I woke with a start by the subtle squeaks of my sinking mattress. As I looked around in distress, I noticed a shadowy figure looming above my tiny twelve year old frame. Once my eyes adjusted to the dim lighting, I recognised the figure as my mother, and I set free the breath I hadn’t realized I had been holding. Our eyes briefly met and she promptly stood up and fled my bedroom. My mind reeled with the obscurity of the situation. I came to the conclusion that a glass of water would be just the thing to help me clear my head of the torrent of ideas of why she had been looming over
While fighting in the war Xavier
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, directed by Robert Enrico, depicts an occurrence in the mind of Peyton Farquhar. He is a civilian who tampers with the Union’s railroad system and is going to be hanged, and all he can think about is escaping and getting home to his wife. Unfortunately, death is a reality and no one can escape it.
Ambrose Bierce’s short story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” illustrates a theme of illusion versus reality distorted by the human mind. In the story, a man named Peyton Farquhar is about to be hanged on a railroad bridge towards the end of the American Civil War. Farquhar, a Confederate citizen eager to help the Confederate States of America’s cause, ventures out towards Owl Creek Bridge at the advice of a Union scout in disguise. Unbeknownst to Farquhar, Union troops captured the bridge and surrounding territory, and upon capturing Farquhar, elect to hang him on charges of being a Confederate spy and sympathizer. As he is being hanged, however, Farquhar is able to escape his fate by falling into the river below. He manages to return back to his home, only to find out the entire experience of escape was an illusion created by his own imagination. The story concludes with the revelation that he actually died on the railroad bridge. Farquhar’s mind was able to create a whole new reality for himself. This reality was vivid, and it seems real to the reader until the very end of the story. The hallucination also spanned hours, yet in reality time passed for only a few seconds. Ambrose Bierce’s story demonstrates the impeccable powers of the human mind and its ability to distort time and reality for itself.
Through a shifting point of view, the narrator leaves the reader pondering whether Farquhar will be able to escape. The narrator of the short story knows everything about Farquhar:
The young woman opened up her door and immediately felt that sense of uneasiness again even though her home was full of light. She could hear the water running in the bathroom and figured that her boyfriend, James, was just taking his usual night shower. She went into the kitchen to get a quick drink of water. As she drank the cool liquid she felt an immense feeling of relief. She advanced toward the bathroom. She walked down the hallway heading towards the closed bathroom door. Alecia felt a sense of panic and anxiety when she felt her foot become slightly submerged in a liquid on the floor.
In Robert Enrico’s short film, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, the audience is manipulated into believing a man on the brink of death gets a second chance at life. However, in the last scene of the short film, the man is literally snapped back to reality. The escape was merely an illusion and the man falls vertically to his death. Robert Enrico’s film ultimately shows the true meaning behind one’s life flashing before their eyes.
Sometimes, things aren’t always the way they appear to be. That is the case at Owl Creek bridge. There seem to be two stories told here—one that is, and one that isn’t. Our main character, Peyton Farquhar, finds himself in a bit of a pickle, for attempting to burn the bridge in support of the Civil War’s rebel soldiers—a feat, which if captured, would surely result in death by hanging. Farquhar’s neck is in a noose. Chances for survival are dismal, but Farquhar has a plan. In Ambrose Bierce’s, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” the title sets the eerie tone of the story, which appears to be about a hanging, and the setting, which appears to be a bridge.
In the story, All the Missing Girls, written by Megan Miranda, the main character is Nicolette Farrell. The main setting is Nicolette’s hometown Cooley Ridge, North Carolina. In the beginning of the story, Nicolette’s gets a very vague letter from her father, saying he saw “that girl”, this letter alone is enough to make her drive from Philadelphia all the way to her father in North Carolina, but she also has to get him to sign legal paperwork and sell his house. The main problem in the book is when a girl goes missing, Annaleise Carter, 10 years after Nicolette’s best friend, Corinne Prescott, had the same thing happen to her, Nicolette has to figure out what d the night Corinne went missing. The solution is as everyone is searching for Annaleise, Nicolette's father and brother try to keep their secrets safe, Nicolette finds out what really happened the night Corinne went missing. Corinne walked out in the street, Nicolette ran her over, and her father, Patrick, covered her dead body with cement in the unfinished garage. At the end of the story after Annaleise Carter’s body is found and the investigation is over, Nicolette, her high school boyfriend, and her father all live together and the real story of what happened to Corinne, well that’s their secret.
After reading An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, I have determined that this short story is not a modern short story. Unlike how a modern short story should be, this one does not focus on the nuances of the character, it is a fast-paced story, and the ending is not focused on a revelation but an effect.
Smiling, she enjoyed the ride from the grocery store. Excitement building at the thought of the camp-out. They headed toward the church for a 'Royal Scouts' camp-out, when Elisabeth felt the car slow to a stop. Looking to her mother she asked; 'What's wrong mommy? Why are we stopping?' 'Someone's car broken down, honey. So we're just slowing down so people can go around them.' She looked out her window at the little white car stopped on the two-lane bridge. With just barely passing the room, she watched as people moved their cars to the right side of the lane. From somewhere behind their car, the sound of a freight train came squealing to a halt. With a burning smell of rubber, piercing her nostrils, a logging truck whizzed past her window. It happened so fast. When the truck came barreling down the road, it fish-tailed into the back end of Elizabeth's little white car. Shattering her window, Elisabeth as pieces of glass floated through the air and the car turned toward the ledge of the tiny bridge. The ringing sound of her mother's screams rang deep within her ears, as the water on her right slowly came into view. Jerking the steering wheel with all her might, her mother screamed as she desperately attempted to turn it away from the ledge. No matter how hard she tried, the wheel would not move in any direction. It was locked. Her mother threw her hands in the air while
About eighty years ago, engineers were able to build a bridge on time and within budget with no problem; today, most of the projects take extra time and money to finish. What exactly happened between now and eighty years ago that caused such a drastic shift? It is clearly not the engineers nor the technology; in fact, those have only improved over time. Today, engineers are faced with much more than designing and building the infrastructure, as they were before. They compete with politicians for funds, fight for the safety of workers, and protect our environment by adhering to the numerous laws and acts set forth by the government. In the future, we can only expect more costs, longer time periods for projects, and an increase in costs and