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Boarded Mysteries The utter shock and dismay of reading the concluding lines of Ambrose Bierce’s “The Boarded Window” makes this short story so fascinating. Imagination plays a key role in the interpretation, and it is likely several readings may be necessary to gain the full meaning. “The Boarded Window” includes examples of mystery and foreshadowing to create an element of surprise. Ambrose Bierce was an author of short stories based on death and horror. He was a genius in his way of writing

The writing style of Ambrose Bierce can essentially be depicted as bitter. His stories include the 1891 story “Chickamauga”, the 1891 story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and the adapted “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Twilight Zone film in 1964. Both stories had some kind of incongruity or plot twist that made his stories fascinating. Occasions throughout his life molded his view on the world. This perspective reaches out into his written work when he takes a gander at the sharp side of

The style and motives of Ambrose Bierce are those of a great intellect and cynic. Ambrose Bierce used graphic images to get his message across in a lot of his stories such as "Chicamauga" and "The Affair at Coulter's Notch". A good portion of his short stories were stories of innocent people and soldiers and their experiences. He also wrote a book called "The Devil's Dictionary," which reinterprets a few terms in the English language. Ambrose Bierce's cynical perspective, which can be seen within

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce is the author of many short ghost stories including “The Moonlit Road”. Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meigs County, Ohio and later moved to Indiana where he spent the remainder of his childhood. He came from an extremely large family and had 12 siblings. While he lived in Indiana his father had a farmhouse which held a library. Bierce spent most of his time there and later went on to say that this library was his greatest educational influence. He served in the Civil

Ambrose Bierce seems to take pleasure in that last-sentence-revelation, the shocking and jarring ending, that buzzer beater fatality. His A Horseman in the Sky is no exception. Bierce, with his pessimism and sharp irony, weaves a tale of ever increasing tension and moral ambiguity that culminates in patricide. Bierce, having been a Union officer in the Civil War, lends his own experience to this short but powerful story. Through a strong use of irony and conflict, both external and psychological

result, he received very little proper schooling and tackled a mountain of chores rather than homework. Despite his lack of schooling, Bierce grew to have a love of literature and he borrowed volumes from his father’s small personal collection (“Ambrose”). Bierce’s love of literature followed him throughout his life from his first job as a printer’s devil, an apprentice at a printing establishment, to the rest of life as an underrated author. His literary creations were impart the products of his

In war, people die. Ambrose Bierce tried to express that heavily when he wrote An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge. Looking into it through a New-Historicism criticism, Ambrose Bierce’s background, the background on the Civil War, and how the plot--more specifically the war--is portrayed can back up the idea that Ambrose Bierce wrote An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge as a message to say that war is something that should not be romanticized. To start off, a look into Ambrose Bierce’s past might help

dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge”. This line seals the fate of Ambrose Bierce’s protagonist, who believed that he could change it. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek”, Ambrose Bierce tells the story of a man struggling to face his reality. Symbolism enhances the total effect of Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek” because it leads the reader to the protagonist’s fate, adds to the imagery, and makes the reader connect

this movement are the rejection of idealistic views of life, and the omission of "contrived" endings to stories. These characteristics are used to let the reader understand life is not always happy and pleasant with a happy ending for everyone. In Ambrose Bierce's "Chickamauga", the author masterfully demonstrates the romanticized ideals of a young nation in the form of a young boy. Bierce uses of the innocence of a young child to illustrate how the young nation was innocent to the very real, appalling

In the first short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce writes an interesting story about what happens to Peyton Farquhar, a well-to-do plantation owner of a highly respected Alabama family. In the story, a soldier from the federal army warns Farquhar about the order of hanging if the yanks find anyone interfering with the repairing of the railroads, bridges, tunnels or trains. Despite the warning, Farquhar found himself at the creek where he experienced an extravagant but delusional