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Right at the start of this section you realize that Peyton is falling off the bridge. He says that he loses conciousness and pretty much thought he was dead already. Then he was realizes that he's not dead and starts to feel the sharp and grueling pains on his neck and throat. He gives us vivid details of the feeling of being hung and suffocating. He tells us that he starts to lose feeling and starts to experience sensations in his limbs that are extremely painful. He could not think. He was consious now. He feels and hears the rop SNAP! Then he falls into the Creek. The noose keeps the water from going into his lungs. He began to sink to the bottom. He wants to swim to the top at this point but would rather die by being hung or drowned, not by being shot.

He attemps to get his hands free and succeeds at that! Then he starts to vigorously make his way to the surfaces and finally gets air to breathe.

He could now feel everything and he had all of his senses back. He realized that he could swim to the forest and even though it was dangerous it looked so awfullly appealing to him.

They spotted him!! The soldiers pointed their guns at him. He got very intimidated. A shot was fired at him but it hit the water. Then a current of the stream cathes Peyton. He immediately dives under the water when he hears the captian order the soldiers to aim and fire. He wasnot hit, again and moved underwater at a very quick speed.

He hits another current. He was then thrown onto the bank by the current. He ran into the forest. He dodges the last bullet shot. He now starts to relax and get his thoughts together. He continued on becuase he thought of his children and wife. His neck still hurt and the rest of his body began to ache. He falls asleep while walking and begins to dream about a time he had with his wife. He describes having a wonderful time and as he is about to take hold of her hands the white light turns immediately to black and then there is a crack of a cannon. All is silent.

There hung Peyton Farquhar dead, swinging from the rope above the Creek.

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I thought that this part of the story was probably the wierdest part out of the whole story. I thought that only because I didn't really catch onto the fact that all of this was happening in his head during the split second that he was dying. Not until later did I realize that it wasn't really happening. Even though I thought that it was weird I did like how he ended the story. Not the fact that he died but how the author brought us out of the "dream" that Peyton was having. I was glad that the author didn't do the whole then he woke up because I think that it would have killed the story. Overall, I thought that this story was ok. I thought that it was well written and I can understand why people liked the story so much when it first came out. 1205362350

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. I think we should try to read more stories inclass like this. 1205367716

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. 1205371230

I din not enjoy this story. i felt it was realy confuseing to tell what was realy going on and what he was just thinking of. i did not like the way the whole dream seen went because it seemed so real. i also dont get if that was what lead up to him being hung or if he was just thinking that becase he was board. i know it was a story but how could he think of a whole seen like in the time it takes to let the rope fall and till his neck breaks. i also think their could have been a better less confusing way to tell this story. 1205447270