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First Selection (“Roundtable Rival” by Lindsey Stirling) https://youtu.be/jvipPYFebWc During this scene, Rob Roy is a prisoner as he stands in direct confrontation with death and is about to be thrown over a bridge. Rather than stand around defenseless, MacGregor manages to get the rope around a Cunningham’s neck, and he jumps over the bridge despite how dangerous it is. As MacGregor races for his life, he is being chased by soldiers. The chase to recapture MacGregor seemed almost as a…

Peyton Farquhar is paying the price for his loyalty to the South during the Civil War at the beginning of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Peyton Farquhar listens to a fake Confederate sol-dier/Union spy who gives him the idea to burn the bridge which ultimately leads to his death. Am-brose Bierce does an excellent job at the describing the scene in which Peyton is being hanged. The solider told Peyton that if any civilian went to the bridge that they would be hanged. Peyton disre-gards the…

Alternative ending of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge All that day he traveled, laying his course by the roundong sun. the forest seemed interminable; nowhere did he discover a break in it. Peyton Farquhar has escaped being hanged by a Union scout disguised as a soldier. His nuse breaks as his body falls from the bridge and instead of being suspended from the bridge he continues to fall into the stream below. He swims as fast as he ever has to get away. He is being shot at by the soldiers so…

Hidden Clues “An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce, foreshadows the horrifying ending through a variety of literary techniques. Foreshadowing is an indication of a future event, which Bierce does by using imagery, paternal plot elements, and allusions. In this short story, Peyton Farquhar is in the process of being hanged for attempting to burn the bridge at Owl Creek; during his hanging he is dreaming of his escape back home. In Farquhar’s dream stage, Bierce foreshadows…

A detachment of one’s surrounding and substituting it by a visionary fantasy, usually happens because like most people The main character wishes for fulfillment that he does not have in his life. In Ambrose Bierce’s An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Peyton Farquhar is struggling between the life he has and what he wants. The events taken place come from dire need to show himself and others how loyal he is to the southern cause during the Civil War. For this response he puts himself in a…

“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. In the story right before Farquhar is being hanged, the unexpected happens, and the rope breaks allowing him to escape from the…

Even though externally you would think they were as masculine as could be, realistically they were not upholding the stereotype due to their low economic standing. They also showed no aspirations to raise themselves out of poverty. These men were also not upholding any sort of economic status because they had no families. There were no females in their lives besides the one prostitute that they keep around. “But at that time she was the only woman in Roaring Camp, and was just then lying in sore…

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. In…

Suspense can maintain a story’s vividness. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce, Peyton Farquhar, a Southern sympathizer, awaits his hanging above Owl Creek Bridge. He envisions his lengthy and dramatic escape from the rope, only seconds before his actual horrific death. Bierce’s brilliant usage of literary techniques, such as sensory imagery and similes, aid the ever-growing suspense of Farquhar’s unfortunate situation. To begin, Bierce’s use of sensory imagery, specifically…

Final draft 20 September 2017 An Occurrence of Owl Creek Bridge In the story Bierce's use of time is very profound. This is proven when he uses a detailed explanation of how farquhar escaped murder, when in reality he gets hung. In which this shows how little time people have left in life. Farquhar…