Question

The Story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" questions can someone please help?

Answer 1

Please Please Please!

Answer 2

What are the questions?

Answer 3

What is Peyton Farquhar's occupation?

2.
Why is he not a soldier, officer, or part of the army?

3.
How much time actually elapses between the opening and closing lines of Part III?

4.
Describe the setting at the opening of the story.

5.
Describe Peyton Farquhar's last thoughts.

6.
Identify and describe the sound that disturbs the thoughts going through his mind.

7.
In the flashback of the story's second section, who visits Peyton Farquhar?

8.
What plan does Farquhar conceive as a result of this visit?

9.
What does Farquhar imagine in the story's last section?

10.
Ironically, what is his real fate?

11.
Summarize what you think this story reveals about the psychology of a person in a life or death situation.

12.
How does Bierce prepare us for the final outcome of the story?

13.
Do you think the writer tries to enlist your sympathies toward either the Union or Confederate side? Or, does the story seem more focused on a more general theme about the nature of war? Cite details from the story to support your answer.

Answer 4

Okay question, all of these answers are most likely in the story..why don't you look for them in there?

Answer 5

i tried, that story confuses me !

Answer 6

apparently he has flashbacks, i read the story 3 times and i still dont see any flashbacks...

Answer 7

You have to read it carefully, I promise the answers will be in there, s/he had to get the questions from somewhere

Answer 8

grrrrrr.... i hate english

Answer 9

"Peyton Farquhar was a well-to-do planter, of an old and highly respected Alabama family. Being a slave owner and like other slave owners a politician he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause. "

Answer 10

"One evening while Farquhar and his wife were sitting on a rustic bench near the entrance to his grounds, a gray-clad soldier rode up to the gate and asked for a drink of water. Mrs. Farquhar was only toe, happy to serve him with her own white hands. While she was fetching the water her husband approached the dusty horseman and inquired eagerly for news from the front." Isn't that a flashback?

Answer 11

what are these the answers to?

Answer 12

i feel so stupid when it comes to the class :/

Answer 13

These don't answer any of the questions as far as I know. I won't be giving you the places where you can find the answers either, the story won't be as confusing if you study it. Just read it and carefully comb through it.

Answer 14

Ill give you all the answers . I just did that assignment

Answer 15

Acaciaa, don't you think that's cheating though? She won't learn anything and will miss out on the whole point of the assignment.

Answer 16

yeah but i feel bad and wanna help

Answer 17

I don't blame you, but there is a difference between helping and giving someone the answer without teaching them to find the answers by themselves for later assignments you know?

Answer 18

Yeah just read the story, the story is not hard to figure out.

Answer 19

I had to do this too

Answer 20

@acaciaa can you give me the answers?