Lucid Dream In An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

Have you ever had a lucid dream? A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer is aware of dreaming. During lucid dreaming, the dreamer should be able to exert some degree of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment. Well in Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge,” Peyton Farquhar kinda has a lucid dream. One example is when Farquhar was shot at. He dived- dived as deeply as he could. The water roared in his ears like the voice of Niagara, yet he heard the dulled thunder of the volley and, rising again toward the surface, met shining bits of metal, singularly flattened, oscillating slowly downward. Some of them touched him on the face and hands, then fell away, continuing their descent. One
He stands at the gate of his own home. All is as he left it, and all bright and beautiful in the morning sunshine. He must have traveled the entire night. As he pushes open the gate and passes up the wide white walk, he sees a flutter of female garments; his wife, looking fresh and cool and sweet, steps down from the veranda to meet him. At the bottom of the steps, she stands waiting, with a smile of ineffable joy, and attitude of matchless grace and dignity. He springs forward with extended arms. 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. “Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge” This has to do with description because it explains what his final thought was before he died. He was thinking about his wife before he was hanged so his final thought was his wife.

I believe that the this reason ‘Description is also used in order to build the setting of the story” is not as strong as my claim because description doesn’t really build the setting, or at least how i’m using it. The way i’m using it is to go into great detail explaining his death. Sometimes the claim show don’t tell will also work for a story like this as well.

My claim i used for the short story “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” was Description because the author Ambrose Bierce wanted to go into great detail about how Peyton Farquhar died, what he looked like, how he got to where he was, and what his last thought was before he