Both "" and The Things They Carried are stories of theof
unnecessary deaths during wartime. While they reflect different time periods and different wars,
they relate to each other by conveying the emotions, thoughts, fears, desires and coping
mechanisms of men potentially facing their premature deaths. They also relate to one another
because they reveal what these men hold dear.
In An Occurrence at
Owl Creek Bridge by , a southern plantation owner named Peyton Farquhar is being
executed by a unit of the Federal army. His crime is that he is evidently a southern
gentleman.
]]>The man who was engaged in being hanged was
apparently about thirty-five years of age. He was a civilian, if one might judge from his habit,
which was that of a planter. His features were gooda straight nose, firm mouth, broad forehead,
from which his long, dark hair was combed straight back, falling behind his ears to the collar
of his well fitting frock coat. He wore...
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