The author wrote about the major Confederate supporter of the south Peyton Farquhar. As he was waiting to be hung due to his activity of demolishing the Owl Creek Bridge, many thoughts were storming through his mind such his wife, his children, escape and freedom.
When he was hanged, the robe broke and Peyton fell into the water. He was swimming vigorously and he whirled in the stream. Whenever he came to surface to refresh his lungs, he saw the blue sky, bright sunshine and green trees.
I believe the author made a beautiful comparison of the escape scene to the current issue, the Civil War.
The author compared the vigorous swimming to the brave fighting of the southerners and whirling in the water as to change the political aspect of the southerners and the desired outcome would be the blue sky, bright sunshine and green trees which was the freedom.
I believe the main purpose of the author in this scene was to express the desire of freedom Peyton was fighting for and even in the last seconds of his life, he portrayed his wish.
The author related the death of Peyton to the defeat of the southerners in the Civil War.
I really enjoyed your blog your insight into the death of Peyton representing the defeat of the Southerners was interesting.I enjoyed your description of the water and it representation of escape Great writing
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed reading your blog. It helped me understand the story much better! Nice work!
ReplyDeleteI agree your reading of this story as a metaphor for the Civil War is very interesting! I hadn't though of this before and I am very interested in this analysis. I would encourage you to try the TEA paragraph on this post and include a quotation from the text that works to support your analysis. We will practice this in class today. Thanks for a great read!
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