An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Group

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joshuaj2010
joshuaj2010
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High School - 12th Grade

What happens after Farquhar seems to escape from the creek?

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Posted by joshuaj2010 on Thursday September 10, 2009 at 9:45 AM and tagged with characters, farquhar.

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  1. cldbentley Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

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    In the fantasy in which Farquhar finds himself escaping the attack of the Union soldiers and his immersion in the river, he travels continuously until he reaches his home.  Along the way, Farquhar travels through a forest that seems especially strange to him, though he is still aware of the direction in which he must travel.  As he prepares to step into an embrace with his wife, he dies.  Throughout the last part of the last chapter of this story, Bierce (the author) provides the reader with hints and suggestions that Farquhar is actually being hanged and that what is apparently happening to Farquhar is not as it seems; reality begins to intrude upon fantasy.

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    Posted by cldbentley on Friday September 11, 2009 at 8:49 AM