Sunday, January 22, 2017

What occurrence provides the climax for the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

's short
story "" exudes drama as it tells the story of Peyton Farquhar, a planter escaping his
execution with seemingly supernatural luck. This drama, however, comes to a head with the final,
climactic moment of the piece. Theof this story comes in the moment of Peyton's death, ripping
him out of his dying fantasy.

As he is about to clasp [his
wife], he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all
about him with a sound like the shock of a cannonthen all is darkness and silence!


The next paragraph in the story contains the last...

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