Owl Creek

Action packed, excitement, and surprising, these words came to mind after I read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce. This story gives you a lot of images, it’s almost like a movie is playing in your head, and there was a part in the story when he describes how the noose felt on his neck. He described the pain so well, I believe he used similes to describe how the noose felt. You won’t stop wanting to read it, this story is a little different too, it was broken into 3 parts, the first part describes the situation, the second part introduces the person who is about to get hung, it gives a brief story of how he got into that situation, and finally the third part, where you think he escapes, but it was all in his imagination, he imaged him escaping as he was falling through the bridge and the noose breaking his neck. The story's point of view is difficult to say, it keeps changing throughout the story and it makes the story even better, the story has a weird transition, there are some parts where you think the author is describing the situation, but really it’s the guy in the story’s view. To summarize it up, if you like shocking twisting endings, that deal with the civil war, this story is for you.