This part it’s going to be divided in two sections for the story «An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge». First, the plot map to guide the actions that happened and second, the respective summary.
Plot Map.
- The story take place in the Owl Creek Bridge when a man was caputured for three soldiers. For clarify, this happened in the civil war of the States, between the south and north side. The man was a prisioner by the South side.
- The soldiers were waiting for orders to execute the prisioner.
- The general gave the order, so the soldiers put a rope around the prisioner’s neck
- The prisioner closed his eyes and started to think how to scape.
- The soldiers hang the prisioner in front of the river.
- The rope broke and the prision jumped into the river and then scapes for the forest
- He found his house and hug his wife
- However, everything turns dark and he saw a light, then his neck stars to hurt
- Actually, he was dead all the time and the scape just happened in his head.
Summary
Bierce tell us the story of a man called Farquhar who was caputed in the Owl Creek bridge by his enemys, the Northern army, in the middle of the civil war in the States. Meanwhile he waits for his executioners he looks down, closes his eyes and imagines ways that he could escape to see his wife and children. With a nod of the captain’s head, the hanging begins. When he open his eyes Farquhar imagines freeing his hands, removing the noose; to plunging into the stream, swimming to freedom and find his home. Surprising he flet down from the bridge safe and sound, then he realized that the rope was broke so his thoughts make come true. Farquhar pass away the river and scape for the forest to find his house. Finally there when he hug his wife everything turns dark and his neck starts to hurt. Actually, he was already dead.
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