Post by Danielle on Feb 9, 2006 10:09:34 GMT -5
The book Locke looked at. By the way, why was he holding it that way? It looked like he was trying to shake something out of it.
Anyways *ding!* I looked it up on Wikipedia...here's some info about it.
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the story of a man who is sentenced to death by hanging at the Owl Creek Bridge of the title.
When he is hanged the rope breaks and the main character falls into the water, from which he begins a journey back to his home. During his journey, he starts to feel some strange physiological events that ultimately end with a searing pain in his neck. It turns out that the man never escaped; he imagined the entire thing during the time between being pushed off the bridge and the noose finally breaking his neck.
Edit: A little more info.
A Civil War civilian prisoner, presumably having been caught tampering with the railroad, is, in a probable intended irony by the Union soldiers who captured him, being hung from the Owl Creek Bridge. As he’s dropped off the bridge, the rope breaks. He swims down the creek, runs away from his captors and makes it back home to his plantation. There he runs into the arms of his wife... and, back on the bridge, where the rope never broke, the prisoner is hanged, the entire episode having been a fantasy in the seconds as his body fell from the bridge.
The short film is based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce [1842–1914(?)]. Bierce is considered to be a writer obsessed with cruelty and brutality, perhaps a result of his war experiences, personal tragedies, including the death of two sons, and the poverty known in his early life, and is sometimes called “Bitter Bierce.” Ambrose, a Union Army soldier wounded in battle, was born in Ohio, raised in Indiana and lived in California.
Anyways *ding!* I looked it up on Wikipedia...here's some info about it.
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the story of a man who is sentenced to death by hanging at the Owl Creek Bridge of the title.
When he is hanged the rope breaks and the main character falls into the water, from which he begins a journey back to his home. During his journey, he starts to feel some strange physiological events that ultimately end with a searing pain in his neck. It turns out that the man never escaped; he imagined the entire thing during the time between being pushed off the bridge and the noose finally breaking his neck.
Edit: A little more info.
A Civil War civilian prisoner, presumably having been caught tampering with the railroad, is, in a probable intended irony by the Union soldiers who captured him, being hung from the Owl Creek Bridge. As he’s dropped off the bridge, the rope breaks. He swims down the creek, runs away from his captors and makes it back home to his plantation. There he runs into the arms of his wife... and, back on the bridge, where the rope never broke, the prisoner is hanged, the entire episode having been a fantasy in the seconds as his body fell from the bridge.
The short film is based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce [1842–1914(?)]. Bierce is considered to be a writer obsessed with cruelty and brutality, perhaps a result of his war experiences, personal tragedies, including the death of two sons, and the poverty known in his early life, and is sometimes called “Bitter Bierce.” Ambrose, a Union Army soldier wounded in battle, was born in Ohio, raised in Indiana and lived in California.
