1. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce

2. Farquhar is tricked by a soldier from the North
Is to be hanged
As Farquhar is hanging there he has a dream that he escapes down the creek
After he swims to safety he walks wearily to his house
As he walks up to the house he feels a blow on the head
What has happened?

3. Peyton Farquhar = well-to-do planter from Alabama, he was a secessionist and would have done anything for the South, had the heart of a soldier but knew nothing about being one
Farquhar’s wife
The Federal = posed as a soldier of the South but was really a soldier of the North

4. Omniscient/Objective
Last line page 430
He wants to show the escape was fantasy
Pages 424 and 425 – the beginning of the story is both types of points of view
They both set the scene and introduces the main character
Part II
Objective third person because it wants to portray Farquhar as eager to serve the Southern cause but naïve about the realities of war

5. Third-person limited Page 429, column I
The narrator sees hears and feels what Farquhar feels, while he is in the water
Shows firing squad in a panicked way
Is it strange someone would be thinking so coherently?
End of page 425
Allows the reader to become personalized with Farquhar