How Does Occurrence Build Suspense In An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce’s work with “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, is really impressive. He works well with suspense, foreshadowing, and all sorts of other literary techniques. He does this to add anticipation and suspense to his stories, and he does this to keep his readers hooked. He does this by giving just enough information to keep the reader wanting to know what happens next. Ambrose Bierce’s work with suspense is amazing, he knows how to keep people hooked. And the way he did it in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” is the way he put the story in order. Instead of having it be the introduction to the character, then the preparation of the hanging, and then Payton Farquar’s vision. It went the preparation for the hanging, the introduction of the …show more content…
He makes the Farquar get shot at multiple times and not even getting touched by a bullet, then when he gets away from all of the guns, he jumps up on the land and is going to make his trip home. Then the author adds more suspense by making his journey home extra long, he does this by adding plenty of different terrain, and different of places for Farquar to run through. This makes the readers want to keep reading because they want to see if he gets home or if he gets caught. He uses plenty of foreshadowing in this story as well, an act of foreshadowing in the story is in the second part when the soldier that is a spy, is telling Farquar about the bridge and how if someone were to mess with it that they would be hanged. And then he asks the soldier if someone wanted to destroy the bridge, how would they do it? Then the soldier said a flood caused a log jam under the bridge, and if someone wanted to they could burn them and cause some serious damage to the bridge. The reader can then infer that Payton tried to burn the bridge, and that is why he is being