Owl+Creek+Bridge+Part+III

By the third section, I am able to see that this story seems to jump from the present back to the past. In the first segment of the story, it is the "set up" for the cerimonial hang. In the second part the reason as to WHY Peyton is being hanged is explained with detail. Now in the third segment, the audience's attention is brought back to the scene of the hanging. In this part he is pushed off the bridge and loses conciousness, as if he were dead. He then manages to come out of his state of faintful shock, and was awakened by the beatings and sharp, pinching pains running through his dieing body. He is unable to think about anything but the pain, really. It is almost as if he can only feel.. Aside from the pain, he hears the standing call of the soldiers to get ready, aim, and then fire. Gun shots are ejected from the nose of the rifles at Peyton in particular. He is emersed into the dark and deep waters. The final short paragraphs of the story explain Peyton's thoughts and feelings on the way down, toward his death. In the last sentence, Peyton ends up dieing due to a broken neck...

Overall, this story was good, but confusing. The ending was what I expected, but still in some aspects shocking to me and I am sure shocking to some other people as well.. 1204174660

I liked ths prt of the story best. It had the action that I was waiting for. It also had a surprise ending. At first it seems like Farquhar escaped death by pure luck, but in the end, it is revealed that he never escaped. Most of part III never happened, Farquhar had just imagined it on the way down. I actualy thought he had escaped. Because of this, the ending completely took me by surprise. I only wish the whole story was like this last part. It definitely would have made the story much more interesting for me. An other thing that I liked about this part of the story was the way that the suspense was built up during the first two parts. You were kept guessing about what was going to happen until the final part. The first part did this well with its final sentence:

"The sergeant stepped aside."

You knew that Farquhar was going to be hanged, but what you really wanted to know was whether or not he was going to escape. Overall, this part of the story was pretty good, but as a whole, the story was not so great.1204243446

Ok. I did not expect the end of the story to turn out the way it did. It sort of caught me off guard a bit. Ambrose Bierce did such a great job describing what was going on in Farquar's mind that I began to lose sight of what was reality and his imagination. That really says something about the author. He convinced me so much that he got free and was going home to his wife and children. It's amazing how all of this stuff was running through this guys head just seconds before being killed. He was like divising a plan to escape- and then he was dreaming about getting safely home to his wife and kids, but never had enough time to actually do it. In conclusion, I really enjoyed this poem because of its uniqueness. It kept my attention the whole time I was reading it and that is what makes a really great story. 1204249916

DMT is one of the strongest known psychedelic drugs, one that our body releases during our sleep and large amounts right before we die. DMT is also a schedule 1 illegal substance, despite the fact that it is in everyone one of our bodies as well as in much organic matter. This is then responsible for our dreams, near death experiences and Farquar's illusion of infinite time, generating the plot of this story. I find this a very interesting concept, one which can be played with quite a bit. I'm sure it would bother many to know that some very profound near death experiences were actually a product of incredibly strong psychedelic drugs. 1204253830

I totally believed that Peyton Farquar's rope being used to hang him broke! However, I was completely wrong. Turns out, most (if not all) of part three was a dream. You think he's free and he finally escaped the Federal sodiers, when really it was all in his head and he really is going to die. So basicly like five pages was a lie! But not really a lie because Peyton was thinking all of it. I liked part three because of the description, action in it and never knowing what was going to happen next. I think I also learned the most in the class discussion today. I helped to read it as a group because Brother Tom would explain things that I didn't understand along the way. 1204256396KCa

For me this was an interesting and surprising way to end this story. I really did not see this coming. As i was reading this final part of the story i thought that the fact of him getting away was unreasonable and would really only be possible in a dream. And it turns out that is really what happened. When i found out that none of it really happened i mmediatly loved the story. I thought it was a perfect way to write and end the story. Completly belivable and followed the setup of the first part of the story with the main character hallucinating about time. I think that the first part set up and the second and thrid parts followed through to create the best story we have read this year. 1204257408

I also liked this poem just like the person above me. I really liked this poem ended. For the whole story i thought the rope actually did snap and the poor man did break free. When the story said the rope snapped i was kind of dissapointed because that would have never happened in real life. Even if the rope did break it would have needed to have tension and his neck would have snapped and his neck would have broke. Dont get me wrong i like fictional story's but that was a little overboard. That would happen like 1 in a 1,000,000 times. The thinking this man had done before getting his neck snapped really helpeed the poem a lot detail wise. The part i liked the most was when the he was under water and he described the feeling he got when he was getting shot. The detail was amazing when he talked about the warm bullets of a just shot bullet. Hot enough to make him feel it but not enough to wound him. Overall i thought the story was good and i liked it.

I thought this story was great. I really liked it. It was extremely well written and the use of just enough detail was perfect. This story has not only one major plot twist, but two. The author kept me guessing and i had no idea what was going to happen next. I love the use of espionage to make the whole plot work, the fact that this man was set up the whole times just makes things better. I had no idea that it would end and that it was a dream. I had to read the last lines 3 times before i understood what happened. This story was so believable. I wish we read more stories like this. mme

This was a pretty sweet way of this story being told because I am one of many that didn’t understand that after he fell in a split second he had the imagination to tell us what he thought could have happened if the rope broke. He is a great story teller and I like how the story pictured out because sometimes when I am having a dream I wish that things in life would be a little better. But the irony is him dying before the story gets to the point where he gets to touch his wife and be happy for just a few seconds. I think that at first the story seemed a little disappointing and yes I admit I did lose a bit of interest but as soon as the second part started I was reading ahead of Br. Tom. The intensity of the story got better and better as it went on and I had to find out if Farquhar was going to make it or not and then the writer raised the action which maybe pushed the limits of imagination but it could still happen. And I believe that the saddest part of the story is when he is relieved that now he has a chance of making it home and maybe getting to see what he once left and he finds it like he left it. It was a great story and I think that the ending was sad but overall I give it a ten because it is an amazing story. 1205007221hre

I liked this part of the story because there is a lot of imaginery action. Peyton Farquar thinks of what would happen if the rope snapped and he fell into the water and then swam to safety. I think this was a very good technique used by the writer because it really draws the reader's eye to the story by puting action in it. Atfirst, when I read it I thought that it was real and that he actually escaped. But after I re-read the story I realized that he was imagining his escape. Then at the end, you find out that he actually was hung and that he had died and that none of part III was actually true because the rope did not snap he just made his mind think that it snapped.

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The third section is excellent. It really makes the story what it is. I never expected the twist thrown in and the end. The author plays the story off as if Farquhar almost escapes and it is very interesting. I really enjoyed the first sentence before all the action, it and the twist at the end is what made the story so good. “As Peyton Farquhar fell straight downward through the bridge he lost consciousness and was as on already dead.” This sentence is so interesting because it makes you think about it, falling down, being that close to death, would you even be thinking about it or would you be dead mentally already. And while we think about the section and how Farquhar is practically dead then we find the rope breaks. Then the author really plays off the rest of the story how we would imagine it, Farquhar tries to escape down the river while the soldiers try to kill and retain him. The bam we find it was all in his imagination and he really did get hung, what a twist to throw on to an already exciting story. 1205095198

Right after finishing Part two I wasnt going to hesisatate reading party three. This part was amazing and I walked right into a wall that I didnt expect. I agree BST the author plays off the story like everyone expects it. Everyone has the idea in the back of there head that Farquhar god away and he was safe from the North. BUT, nope not at all Amrbose made us walk into a whole new story. I thought he got away that he did escape his death and that wasnt his time to go. I mean how perfect did Ambrose play it off? He totally fooled me because I thought he feel into the lake and he was floating and got away. But like I said earlier he ended up being killed by hanging from the north by trying to burn down the bridge. The author just got my mind spinning when i heard this this was totally unexpected. I mean really who thought this was going to happen? This story took sa hhuge spin! This was crazy! I really enjoyed this story it was acutally a great treat. We really dont read stories that are arranged like this. This story was very unique and I would love to read stories just like this. This story gets a A+, best story I think we have read yet. 1205275768Ale2

After reading the first two sections I was debating on reading the third one. This story has a tendency to jump around from what he is thinking to what is really happening for real. The first two parts of the story kind of sets the third and final part up. In the second part of the story it explain why and how we got to the situation we were at. Now the third part is focused more on the hanging again. In this part he is pushed off the bridge as if he were hanged but still thinks and in his mind manages to escape. He is in such a state of shock he can’t feel the pain. But later when he realizes and wakes up from this he is still on the board falling and has died. I think that we sometimes day dream while maybe we are in class and just think what if we were outside now playing with friends instead of school. 1205296495

I agree with Jsp because I too was debating to read the third part of this story. I finally chose to read and i was pleased. I enjoyed the last part of this story because to me it was the most interesting and eventful. Once the story talk about how he escaped from the rope and gunshots, I couldn't believe it and I wanted to read until the end. The story really kept my interest. I really thought that he managed to escape death. In the beginnging of the story I really thought he was going to die, but when i read this part i honestly believed he was a free man. Once the ending of the story came and he only imagined this, it makes me wonder if someone who is about to die thinks the same way. 1205342693

I thought that this was an interesting way to end the story. I definetly didn't see this coming. As I was reading the final part of the story I thought that the fact of him getting away was completely unreasonable and was impossible unless you were in a dream. And it turns out that is really what happened, I guess I just had a lucky guess. When I found out that none of it really happened I was like wow. I thought it was a perfect way to write and end the story. Completly belivable and followed the setup of the first part of the story with the main character hallucinating about time. I think that the first part set up and the second and thrid parts followed through to create one of the best stories I have read in class this year. 1205367475

I sort of agree with dte, I thought that the end of the story was the very interesting; in fact it was my favorite part. I really didn't think that any of this was going to occur. As I read this part I started to get confused as to what was going on and as I got farther into it I was getting more and more confused. I would have never guessed that this would be a dream I just thought that this guy was a slightly less cool superman or something like that. When I did read the end I was like wow that was a waste of time. I thought that the ending of the story was really stupid, I’m sick of these types of stories. And if you take out that hallucination it's is just a story about a guy that was tricked and failed to burn down a bridge. I just think that there would be a better way to end this. 1205371146