The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was a great story. The way the author made you feel like you were actually Peyton Farquhar. I felt like I was about to be hanged myself, the story was extremely clever. You think that he actually frees himself from the rope right after the sergeant steps to the side to actually let him hang. The author makes it so you don't know what happens until the end. You …showed first 75 words of 295 total…

…showed last 75 words of 295 total…sad thing is that when he finally reaches his home and wife, he awakes to a bright light and the sound of something like a cannon. He is really dead and it is when he falls through the bridge and the rope breaks his neck. He then swings left to right underneath the owl creek bridge. So the whole time that he is dreaming this about escaping, he is actually in the process of dieing.