I chose to write about “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. This story caught my attention because it shows how fast a lifetime can go through the mind. Thoughts are like the speed of light. In reality, things only last for a few short seconds, but lasts for days in the mind of Peyton Farquhar. It is interesting to me how time is so much shorter in real life than it is in the mind. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a very suspenseful short story written by Ambrose Bierce that takes place during the Civil War in Alabama. It doesn’t tell much about Farquhar’s life, other than he was a well-to-do planter and a slave owner. He was a devoted supporter of the Southern cause. He was hung because he was caught by the allies burning a
