Throughout all of our lives we experience different situations and events but sometimes these events take a different turn then the intended. In "Indian Camp" and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ernest Hemmingway and Ambrose Bierce bring the reader face to face with different situations that go sour. "As he is about to clasp her 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 cannon--then all is darkness and silence!"
In the beginning Uncle George, Nick and his Father embark upon a
journey so that the doctor can deliver a baby. The journey they take to reach the lady is long and seemingly endless. They must travel across the river and through the forest overcoming any obstacles and blinded by nightfall. This journey seems much like the journey one takes after birth, commonly referred to as the journey of life. Once they arrive at
Ernest Hemingway uses both plot and theme in Indian Camp to remind us of the importance of life and its unavoidable end. In this story, I think the setting plays another big part because it is divided into three different sections. Ambrose Bierce's Section I of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" actually tells the reader about when Peyton was about to be hanged and leads us from the beginning of the ceremony to the end where he is actually hanged. It then goes on to Section II, where it tells us how he found out about Owl Creek Bridge, and what could happen if a civilian interfered with anything dealing with the bridge. Last of all there is Section III, which tells the reader about Peyton's hallucination of escaping the hanging. If the author wanted to just tell the story in order, he could have went in the order of Section II, I, and the III. As in the plot, this story could have happened in another place and time. The I
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