The+second+section+of+the+Occurence+at+Owl+Creek+Bridge

We finally figure out in the section section of this story that the name of thr main character is Peyton Farquhar. He know that he is a planter of a well respected family from Alabama. He was a slave owner and a politician. He would do any job to help the South becuase he was a proud and committed supporter. Nothing was too much for him to handle, he was a "civilian who was at heart a soldier." It then goes into a flashback of the man:

He describes a day where him and his wife are just sitting on the front porch when a soldier rides up and asks for a drink of water. His wife gladly gets up to serve him. When she goes to get the water, Peyton eagerly asks the soldier for information regarding the army. The man gives him some information and updates him. Then Peyton asks him about Owl Creek Bridge. The soldier responds by telling him that he was there recently and describes the conditions of it. The wife comes back with the water, the soldier drinks it and thanks her. He then rides off. 1204262587

I felt that this part was a slow follow up to the start. I still thought it was really well written and very descriptive, but it was kind of boring. It moved the story along in way that could have been way more exciting, but I am not going to complain about the way he did it. The scout coming and tricking him seemed kind of wierd to me. I think I might have missed something but why would the union spend their time on this seemingly random guy. Maybe he was more important than I read into but it seemed to me that the union soliders would not care that much if this guy lived or died. it seemed like a lot of unnecessary work. I thought the way it was written was very convincing in the way the union solider was acting like a confederate solider and i never would have guessed that was going to happen. Overall I thought it was very good. 1205366978

I agree with dte this is just a slow follow up to the first part that really confused me. The story remained very detailed but is a giant snooze fest. It was just so slow it could have been a little faster but is too slow. But it was still pretty good. I thought that it was very clever the way they had the scout come and trick the guy to try and burn the bridge down. I was a little confused, did they go to every farm person’s house and tell them this or did they dingle out the main character. the fact that the union soldier was dressed up like a confederate was a really good idea, if I was that guy I would never had seen it coming if I was a that guy. I think that this part is better than the first part but could have been a little faster and could have been better. Over all this part was pretty good but has some room for improvements and it is not as good as the last part. 1205370262