Owl Creek Bridge Realism

Realism in American literature tell us story of how far our imagination can go to. How we want that imagination to become reality, and escape of any “horrible” situation we might be in. American literature shows us the “realism” of life by given us contemporary social realities. As well as everyday activities of ordinary people, that resembled life. Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge, and To Build a Fire are stories for us to see how reality was in this time era. Stories like these try to represent themselves in a lifelike manner, and attempts to portray life as it is. This kind of literature is a story within a story. As we ready that story of the narrator, its telling us events that are happening in present tense. Moving on with a or some flashback. …show more content…
Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge, is a story in the time of the American civil war. Peyton Farquhar is the protagonist of this short story. He is betrayed by a north scout in to Farquhar own trap. This lead up to his trail, where he was going to get hanged. The being to the story has the realism of how people went to trail, and were executed by hanging them of a bridge. In the film we can see the Farquhar facial expression, and see everything he sees and observes too. As he closes his eye before death he recaps happy moments with his family. This is something that many do before death, car accident, or traumatic situation. We humans going in to a flashback of things that happens in our lives. As Farquhar gets hanged, and falls in to the river he escapes death. Once in the water he does his best to untie himself from all the ropes. Its victory for Farquhar at this point. Once he is swimming up, and looks around he feels relief. In the film we can see the character’s facial expression of “yes, I made it this far, and alive.” Farquhar is viewing life differently since he is getting a second chance, and looking at mother nature, and see its beauty to it. The realism in the part of story is