1a. Why is Farquhar hanged? Peyton Farquhar is hanged because he was going to where the Yankees had set up a blockade and was going to mess up the work they were doing on rebuilding the bridges and railroads. 1b. Why does the gray-clad soldier visit the Farquhar home?
He opens the story with a man perched on a bridge, several feet above a river, with his hands bound and a noose around his neck. The man was Peyton Fahrquhar and he was awaiting his execution for crimes committed against the Union Army (the north.) The Union Army believed that Peyton had conspired to blow up a bridge that they had planned to utilize for supply runs and troop movement. Ironically this is the very bridge from which Peyton is now about to be hanged. As Peyton prepares to die he seems to succumb to the enormous weight on his mind and starts to ‘black out.’ As the plank he is perched on is removed he plunges to what will surely be his certain death.
This scene was also a great scene because Dally’s character finally showed his true colors, and it was illustrated as well as it was in the book, possibly even better. Another scene that Matt Dillion did admirably in was his death scene. He did very well in actually looking like he was about to die; the crawling and the painful expression were very realistic. In conclusion, Dally’s character was represented very well. The film The Outsiders has three main heroes; Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, and Matt Dillon.
Trident University Billy J Shults Module 1 Case AssignmentENG102English Composition II Professor Peter Nezafati February 24, 2014 “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” This is a discussion of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. In this story we are set at the sight of a hanging by the Federal Army. Peyton Fahrquhar the southern sympathizer has been caught, moments from swinging at the gallows. He is in a state of reflection. Peyton is aware he has moments left, yet surprised at the way he has trailed off from the current affair.
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson unveils, John Wilkes Booth, an assassin who planned on putting an end to President Abraham Lincoln’s life. Since Booth prospered with his scheme, this wasn’t the conclusion, but the inception of his journey to escape from the infuriated Union. When you commit a crime, punishment is inevitable. A man name John Peanut relates to me for being clueless on what will happen if someone leaves or tells you to hold on to their stuff and come back later to take it back. But as usual, there’s an unexpected chaos that’ll happen that you know nothing of.
The soldier told Farquhar any civilian caught interfering with the North’s efforts in the area would be hanged. Farquhar asked how a civilian could attempt some form of sabotage. The soldier told him that one could easily set fire to the driftwood that had piled up near the bridge after the past winter’s flood. The man, who was actually a Northern scout in disguise, finished his drink and rode off, only to pass by an hour later heading in the opposite
Derrick Williams Prof. Sackley History 199 9/30/2011 “For my own part, I felt indifferent to my fate. It appeared to me that the worst had come (the separation of him and his family), that could come, and that no change of fortune could harm me.” Charles Ball was born into slavery. He encountered the same punishment and had to live the same hard and cruel life similar to any other slave. However, Balls story differs due to his never ending ambition to be active in his attempts to expose, change, and better the lives of slaves. As a young man, Ball was sold and separated from his wife and children to a slave trader.
The poem mostly revolves around the river which has a twin personality in this case. The poet starts off by giving us a beautiful description of a park and a river in the summer to make the setting dwell swiftly into our minds, only to follow it up by explaining the terror that beheld him. Even though the river was considered exotic and beautiful by the poet, it was the reason for so much loss and suffering. The destruction is a direct consequence of the flood and it can easily be said that the river was responsible for the damage and
“…let his gaze wander to the swirling water of the streaming racing madly beneath his feet…what a sluggish stream!” (2). To Peyton who is about to be executed in a horrendous way is starting to perceive a stream that was racing madly but at the same time he calls it sluggish. At this point Peyton has begun to have an altered perception of time. Another example of Peyton’s heightened sense of time is his whole entire journey from the noose breaking to him making it home. He states how “All that day he traveled, laying his course by the rounding sun.” (7).
Initially, in the second section, a “gray-clad soldier rode up” and discussed with Farquhar about the Owl Creek Bridge. (302) Gray was the color of the Confederacy, but at this point it was a misleading indication of affiliation; this was a Federal scout searching for Confederate sympathizers among the civilian population. The color gray indicates a distortion of the truth by both parties. It shows the deceit by the civilians, who tried to help fight the Federal army in many small ways, and the willingness of the Federal army to do whatever was necessary to win the war. Shortly after Farquhar falls in the water, he looks towards the marksman who nearly shoots him and “...through the sights of the rifle...observed that it was a gray eye and remembered having read that gray eyes were keenest.” (304) This seemingly paranoid detail, although truly impossible at the range Farquhar was looking, establishes a link between the marksman and Farquhar.