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occurene at owl creek First Reading The very first sentenced we are introduced to man that is about to be hanged for doing something wrong. This is definitely set
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First Reading
The very first sentenced we are introduced to man that is about to be hanged for doing something wrong. This is definitely set back in the war time's maybe the civil war. The man might be a black man and being hanged for jus being black but sense there are soldiers on both ends I am assuming it must be a war thing maybe he is on the opposing side and has been captured. Bierce really uses great description about the weapons and details them. Bierce also talks about the respect of death in the last sentence of the first paragraph so we know that this man will be killed by the hanging. We find out a lot about the man that is fixing to be hanged we know he is about thirty five, nice looking and a gentleman. He worked An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
as a planter he even describes his dark eyes. I think that this man is not just an introduction to the story but the main character because he wouldn't take so much time detailing him if he was just going to die and that is it. It takes a long time to hang the man and why know exactly how it will be done. I think it is funny that the civilian that is being hanged notices the water and how sluggish it was. I wonder if he might be thinking about an escape from this rope. I don't see how he could with all the soldiers, guns, and the rope around his neck but maybe he is. The man loves his family and thinks of them right before his death and the intense sound was the sound of his life ticking by he could not handle it. The description of the gold water is great I can imagine the scene perfectly. Well the author took us right into the man mind and I am right he is thinking of an escape, a very thoughtful one. In two lines we find that he is a family man with a wife and kids and he cares about them to be thinking of them in such a tragic state. Bierse left us at the end of chapter one with the sergeant stepping off the bland that was going to kill this man. Does the man try his...
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