An Occurrence at Owl Creek
...ud metallic clicking over and over and over and he doesn’t realize it’s his watch. Then he is dropped, and then it goes into his deep thoughts and memory and this is were sense of time slows down. Right away you find out his name is Peyton Farquhar, and he is a well of farmer from the south, and he is a slave owner. Right away you can tell this is during the civil war, and that he is a part of the confederacy. He is very devoted to the southern cause, and tries anything to join the army, but cannot because of unknown reasons. But he does what ever he can to help and he finds out one day from a soldier that help the war in his own way. The soldier tells him that the union is killing anyone interfering with Owl Creek bridge will be hanged, and he finds out a way to get in and to set fire to the whole bridge. And this flash back explains exactly why is in this predicament, and the author has no need to explain anymore. We return in chapter three to his hanging and as he falls, he describes the feeling of pain and the way his body swings like a perfect pendulum. Then right before he suffocates, the rope snaps and he is sent plunging into the river. Then he describes of series of events that go on as he under water, things that his body is doing but that he is in no way control of, he is untying himself and starting to swim down stream and he has no control of his body. He describes a sort of heightened sense; being able to see the dew on a plant, see the soldier’s eye color from 100 feet away and hearing fish swim by him. Then as he is swimming down river and being shot at, he gets into a whirlpool and thrown thirty feet onto shore. This is where the reader...