《Kelly Berthold-An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge》.pptVIP

An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge Written By: Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Guinnet Bierce Born: 1842, January 24th in Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio. Death: Unknown – last correspondence dated December 26, 1913 in Texas 1861: Bierce enlisted in the Ninth Indiana Infantry for the Civil War. He was a soldier for the entire duration of the war until resigning in 1865 after receiving a bullet wound to the head. As a soldier, the war and the experience influenced many of his works: Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” was written with the setting of the war, the mood and the people of the war in mind. “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” was published in 1890, collected in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, a book of Bierce’s short stories published in 1891. The story is set during the Civil War, focusing on the Confederate Soldier, Peyton Farquhar, who is awaiting to be hanged. The story was written in three parts: Part 1: Reader is introduced to Peyton’s present situation and his mind set. Part 2: Peyton’s background and how he obtained the misfortune of having a noose around his neck on Owl Creek Bridge. Part 3: What goes on in Peyton’s mind before his hanging: an imagined escape from the noose, the bridge and death. Ending in a realistic turn, Peyton is hanged, his neck breaks and he does die. Ambrose Bierce’s story takes the reader on a journey with the hero in an almost convincing adventure that nearly reassures the reader that the hero will escape; until shockingly he doesn’t, he dies and swiftly after, the story is over. Bierce’s “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” would not have had succeeded in having such a shocking ending if it were not for the language used. … How does Ambrose Bierce use descriptive or poetic language? In this final passage of the story, the reader is faced with coming to terms with the fact that Peyton is now going through the bodily effects of being hanged. Bierce introduces the same stylistic elements he