Lianet Short Stories Essay
This essay will include two short stories. Use one page and half for one story and one page and half for the other story.
Story One: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Directly and completely answer the following questions. Include specific examples from the story in your answer, and if you use secondary sources, be sure to include the correct documentation.
1. In what ways are the condemned man’s perceptions of time and motion distorted as he is waiting to be hanged?
2. What is ironic about the fact that Farquhar agrees with the saying that, “all is fair in love and war?”
3. What details in Part III suggest that Farquhar’s journey occurs in his mind?
4. Point of view refers to the vantage point from which the story is told. Why is the limited third-person point of view appropriate for this story?
How might the story be different if Bierce had used an omniscient third-person narrator?
Story Two: Blue Winds Dancing by Tom Whitecloud
Directly and completely answer the following questions. Include specific examples from the story in your answer, and if you use secondary sources, be sure to include the correct documentation.
1. What do you learn in the first section of the story about the conflict in the attitudes of the narrator? What is his attitude toward civilization? If he is the protagonist, who or what is the antagonist?
2. What does the narrator mean by saying, “I am alone; alone but not nearly so lonely as I was back on campus at school?”
3. What do you think is meant by the blue winds dancing – what kind of wisdom?