“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” written by Ambrose Bierce. This short story is set in the year between 1861 and 1865. This story takes place during the American Civil War and is set in Alabama. This story is about a man named Peyton Farquhar he also has a family. The story starts out with Farquhar about to be hanged by confederate soldiers at Owl Creek Bridge.…
James Moloney's coming-of-age novel, A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove, illustrates the life of an adolescent boy called Carl Matt. Using the experiences that Carl and other characters, Moloney demonstrates that every human being needs love and acceptance to feel a sense of belonging and worth in this world. Carl and his brother Harley throughout most of do not receive the correct guidance or love and worth and have lived in a corrupt family, until they meet Joy and Skip Duncan and Justine and later on Maddy Duncan as well. Due to this lack of love Carl has lost confidence, trust for other people, self-esteem and any sense of feeling. Like Carl, Harley has also been affected, he has turned to robbery, vandalism and as a result of this has become rebellious and a juvenile delinquent.…
The short story of Owl Creek Bridge In the short story of Owl Creek Bridge Peyton Farquhar was a big War & Military man, but he wasn’t in the military. He got caught trying to burn the Owl Creek Bridge by the other side. The soldiers put a rope around his neck and were about to push him to his death. Farquhar saw a piece of drift wood that was in the fast moving stream but moving really slow, which is being used as symbolism.…
“A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove” written by James Moloney explores the sensitive but relevant topics such as love, family and belonging. Throughout the novel the main character Carl Matt is forced to deal with the issues of trying to feel a sense of belonging after his mother, father and sister’s absence as well as trying to feel love when he refuses to love himself. He experiences misfortune and abandonment by his family which causes Carl to struggle to find his sense of belonging. Secondly, Carl struggles to accept any form of compassion or love shown to him as he is constantly self-conscious of his weight and looks which is shown through the many lines throughout the book that have the ability to pull the heartstrings of any reader, “What are…
Have you ever faced a problem that was with your friends, but you thought you couldn’t fix it because it would hurt your friends feelings and you would feel bad? In the story, “On the Bridge” Seth Dawson had experienced with his friend Adam Lockwood when they were hanging out on the bridge smoking cigarettes. Adam flicked a cigarette butt off the side of the bridge and Seth crushed his on the ground so nothing would happen. The cigarette butt ended up landing on someone’s car and Seth got punished even though it was Adam who flicked the cigarette butt off of the side of the bridge. To begin, conflict is a very important part of “On the Bridge” because there were a lot of problems that were faced.…
Romeo and Jerry Everyone likes to believe that we are all our own individual people but Maya Angelou put it best when she says, “I note the obvious differences / between each sort and type, / but we are more alike, my friends / than we are unalike,” (Angelou “Human Family”). There are so many people out there it is hard to believe not one of us is like the other. This is also reflected in many characters in our literature. Take a look at the two works “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.…
In Katherine Paterson’s story Bridge to Terabithia, Jesse Aarons is the typical energetic and competitive fifth grader. He races against all the kids, aspiring to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He doesn’t have many friends in school, and at home he has five sisters. He has a passion for drawing, so often at night that is what he does, but he is ashamed to admit it to his family. Then one day, a new girl, Leslie, swooped into the races at recess and beat every single boy.…
The characters in “The Dead” are not actually living at all, as one can see in the narrator’s descriptions of the events and traditions that are continuously brought up, and in how those and the characters are predictably and monotonously described. The first example of monotony is the mention of the dance, “It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual dance,” (21). The description of the dance indicates that it has been going on for “Years and years” for “as long as anyone could remember,” telling the reader that this annual dance is a strong tradition with the Morkan sisters and all who know them (21). The over explanatory nature of the event’s description shows the tedium of their lives and how they depend heavily on this routine which further reinforces their spiritual paralysis by repeatedly accepting the routine (Billigheimer). This theme of routineness is also seen in the mentioning of Freddy Malins, who “always came late” and whom everyone is afraid will “turn up screwed,” (22).…
One way in which Maugham presents ideas of love and desire is destructively. This is evident when Kitty’s love for Charlie leads to Walter presenting her with an ultimatum; either Walter ‘files for a petition’ or she goes with him to Mei-Tan-Fu. Maugham punishes Kitty’s choices and sends her to her potential death, which shows that Kitty’s adultery can have dire consequences. Kitty’s love for Charlie leads to her virtual death sentence and Walter’s self-hatred of having an unrequited love causes him to go with her into a ‘cholera epidemic’. Maugham himself was a homosexual and knew about the need to hide this from the disapproving society he lived in.…
When people hear about opposites attracting, they usually think that the opposites fall in love and ride along into the sunset but in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare shows this attraction as a bridge that moves along the plot of this tragic love story. Shakespeare introduces Romeo, the male protagonist as a peaceful, loving, young adult who meets with Tybalt, a supporting character who is full of anger and loves to engage in fights. To readers, Tybalt’s storyline may seem unnecessary to the play but it actually helps all the events unfold. Shakespeare shows Romeo and Tybalt as total opposites but deep inside their characters they have so much in common. Shakespeare demonstrates their similarities by their personality…
Type of settings in: An occurrence at Owl creek bridge by Ambrose Bierce The fictional story written by Ambrose Bierce: An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge is a supernatural story which means that it is beyond natural. In a supernatural tale or any kind of literature text, the text needs a certain kind of setting that are unique to their text or author. The most important in the setting is the time the story took place, the social environment around the story and where the story took place.…
An Analysis of Postman’s View on Education In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, Neil Postman explains his views on how we can improve the future by looking to the past for inspiration. One of the topics he spends a great deal of time discussing is education. and how the education of the young should change. Postman believes that people should be educated to be skeptical as philosophes of the 18th century believed. He has five suggestions on how this should be carried out.…
Giulio Tamassia is a city spokesman for matters relating to Romeo and Juliet. He receives thousands of letters from people all over the world sent to Juliet. They write to Juliet about their tragic love stories. Giulio is a sort of spokesman for Juliet. He saves all of the letters and reads them and sometimes replies.…
Tantalus, a Greek mythological figure, famous for his punishment in Tartarus. Tantalus is forced to emerge himself in pool of water beneath a tree full of fruit with branches hanging low, with the fruit away from his grasp, and the water draining before taking a drink. As he starts to get frustrated, he sits on the big cube and looks as if he has given up and threw in the towel. Therefore, the cube is pulled up from beneath him, and he is dropped to the ground. Moving forward, he refuses to continue to play the game, even when the carafe of water is dangled in front of his face he does not make an attempt to grab it.…
The Bridge did not avoid the classical linear narrative where strong causality linked the past with the present and future. The Bridge’s narrative was developed through a four-line structure (A: B: C: D). Each letter corresponded to a storyline. Each one of these lines function in parallel, but they did not necessarily have the same salience for the narrative or the same duration in each episode. For example, A was the most significant, B less, and so on.…