Owl Creek Bridge Overview

The story begins with clear thoughts about a man goes by the name Peyton Farquhar who stood on a railroad bridge in Northern Alabama, looking down into a swift of water twenty feet down below. The man hand was behind his back, the wrist bound with a cord. A rope loose encircle his neck. It was connected to a stout cross-timber above his head. Apparently Peyton Farquhar is about to be taking by unit of Union Army. The man is calm but, as might be expected, somewhat disoriented. As he stands alone waiting his death, he imagines throwing off his noose, diving into the water, and escaping to home and his family. As all the thought pass through his brain, the sergeant step off of the back of a board on which the man is balanced over the water and the condemned planter falls toward the stream, the noose tight around his neck.

Peyton Farquhar is a member of an old and highly respected Alabama family. Peyton Farquhar, who was devoted to the Southern cause, was stopped from joining the army by circumstance and was eager to serve the South in any way as possible. One evening in the past, while him and his wife sitting, a grey-clad soldier rode up and asked for water, told them that the Northern to advance once the bridge over Owl Creek had been fixed. The soldier said that the bridge was not guarded and that a brave man could easily burn it down. Farquhar end up destroying the bring and then got captured. The planter never had chance, because the grey-clad soldier was a Federal scout.

As Peyton fell straight down through the bridge, he was already dead. He awakened by current of pain running through his body. A loud splash wakes him up even more abruptly, and he realizes that the noose has broken sending him fallen in the stream. He struggles desperately to free his hand and rises to the surface gasped for air, which he exhales with shriek. Farquhar look back to see his executioners standing on the bridge, in silhouette against the sky. One of the sentinels fires his rifle at him twice. Farquhar can see the gray eyes of the marksman through the guns sights. The joy of resurrection is short-lived, however, the Union troops immediately open fire on him and Farquhar is force deeply and swim furiously in order to escape the ignominy of being shot after having to avoid death by hanging and drowning. The troops fire at will and even artillery is brought to bear on the fleeing prisoner, but with the help of the current, the man evades cannon and rifles shot and plunge into the forest.

Peyton Farquhar drives himself relentlessly through the rest of his day all through the night toward his home. He apparently falls asleep while walking, for when he awakens he stands on the gates at his home. All is he left it, and all is bright and beautiful in the morning sunshine. His wife stands there waiting for him with a smile of joy. As he being to clasp her, he feels a stunning blow upon the back of his neck. Peyton Farquhar was dead.

Peyton Farquhar was a strong hero. The reason I say he was a strong hero, because Farquhar almost drown and die, he dodge bullets but through it all he manage to get through it. He knew the Union Troops was out to kill him but he did not know when or where it was going happen. All he was thinking was to get home to his and to be happy but before he even made their good they took his life.

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