Owl Creek Bridge War

Words: 531
Pages: 3

The story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a vivid example of a realistic depiction of everyday war and human psychology in war. About how the hero tries to escape from reality, inventing his own fictional and happy end.
A man stands on a bridge with a noose around his neck and bound hands behind his back. On the sides two soldiers, soon one of them will knock the board from under the feet of the unfortunate man, and he dies from suffocation or a broken neck. But if the cord breaks, he will drown in the river. And if he will not sink at once then the soldiers will finish the bullet.
This short story is a great example of the vivid descriptions of mental disorder in which people cannot cope with the surrounding circumstances, death is
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Survive along with the hero, struggle, scramble, run it through your fingers a grain of sand in the shallows, they sparkle like precious stones. Wander through the woods with swollen and rough tongue and a wound to the neck, worn out and wounded feet step by step.
And all these events in such detail clearly and vividly described occur in just a few seconds in the consciousness of a person in agony, while his body shudders and squeezes his throat a noose.
In this book, the feeling of fear is not the only dominant narrative. Much more important is not the fear itself, and the reason for its occurrence.
The time is viewed through the prism of human perception.
With the introduction of the double junction, Ambrose Bierce reaches the highest degree of the emotional effect. True ending reinforces the drama, brings the conflict to a higher limit, often bordering on the absurd. Tragedy and despair are the main quality of the novel this author and it emphasizes the isolation of these properties, giving the entire book an emotional colour.
Using the technique of double endings, Bierce reverses the initial situation so that the ending of the story is a complete surprise to the discouraged reader.
The hero dies, when the threat of death, it would seem, is