An Occurrence at Owl Greek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce takes place at the U.S Civil War in Alabama in which Peyton Farquhar is hanging at the Owl Greek Bridge and his hands are tied in his back and his neck is tied with a rope. He was at twenty feet below the water and some militaries were standing beside him with different weapons. The cord that was around his neck broke so he fall to the water and the militaries start to shoot at him but they didn´t succeed so Peyton was able to scape into the forest. At the end he was dead at the Owl Greek Bridge with his neck broken.
The imagery used in this story is short but has the details that are need to picture an image in your head, like in the following examples:
"Farquhar dived—dived as deeply as he could. The water roared in his ears like the voice of Niagara, yet he heard the dulled thunder of the volley and, rising again toward the surface, met
shining bits of metal, singularly flattened, oscillating slowly downward."
The author here is appealing to our sight and sound senses like when he describes the sound of the water as the Niagara which is a loud and strong sound, well I imagine this way. Also he is using our sight senses while describing how the metal looks flouting in the water.
"The man who was engaged in being hanged was apparently about thirty-five years of
age. He was a civilian, if one might judge from his habit, which was that of a planter. His features were good—a straight nose, firm mouth, broad forehead, from which his long, dark hair was combed straight back, falling behind his ears to the collar of his well-fitting frock coat. He wore a mustache and pointed beard, but no whiskers; his eyes were large and dark gray, and had a kindly expression which one would hardly have expected in one whose neck was in the hemp."
This description about the appareance of the main character make me imaging in my head the way he looks because the words such as "firm mouth" or "Dark hair" are descriptive enough to draw an image in my head. I think that in this passange the author make a great job with imagery.
In the other hand the protagonist which personaly is of someone that values fairness.
“To be hanged and drowned,” he thought, “that is not so bad; but I do not wish to be shot. No; I will not be shot; that is not fair.
This reveals that character is a person that accepts his mistakes as long as his punishments are fair. He is a person that really values fairness.
I like this story because I learn more about that time period in which people were killed hunging from a bridge. I like the way the author describes the main character because is specific and gives an idea of who was he and gives an idea of his appareance. The only thing is that I confused a little at the final because in one part it says he was dreaming and at the end he was death at the Owl Bridge.
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