...States Civil War era. The short story is divided into three parts. Part one introduces Peyton Farquhar, the main character. Peyton is standing on a bridge surrounded the Northern Army and is about to be hung. Part two explains why Peyton Farquhar is being hanged. He was tricked by a Northern Solider in disguise as a Confederate Soldier explaining how the war was going. The Northern Solider told Farquhar about the repairing of the Owl Creek Bridge. Farquhar wanted to help out the Confederate Army and expressed to the in disguised solider that he wanted to sabotage the bridge. The solider explained how it could be done and went on his way away from the bridge. At night fall on his way back Farquhar was outside his house again and the Solider came back dressed in his usual Union uniform and took Farquhar to be hanged on the bridge. Part three starts with Farquhar falling off Owl Creek Bridge in a noose. The rope breaks and falls into the river beneath him. The Union Army shoots at Farquhar and to no luck he escapes the volley of bullets. He then escapes the river and travels back to his house. When...
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...Peyton Fahrquhar’s Death through Literary Techniques “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is about a hanging of a man. Ambrose Bierce wrote the short story, talking about Peyton Fahrquhar. Fahrquhar was hanged for trying to torch a bridge during the Civil War. Bierce had a goal to keep the reader interested; he achieved his goal by using many literary techniques. Ambrose Bierce provided a shock factor in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, that foreshadowed the ending through symbolism, allusion and irony. Symbolism was used to help the reader understand the short story. Ambrose used the watch, the timber, and the color gray to symbolize multiple things to give the reader a clue that Fahrquhar was dying. The watch that was used in the story...
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...The effort of the charger to give most of the army time to get out the cannons from the hilltop. Crane says the conditions, He said “It rained. The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky" (Crane, 231). In the start of the battle ends the mark of the red badge. But it continued to rain and that made a lot of trouble for the Union army. The Union army had to cross the Rappahannock river, but the rain prevented them from crossing for two days. The Union was at its low for the whole war. Their low was in war and spirit. This point should be kept in mind because in Crane’s final paragraph accurately describes the physical state of the union after...
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...Michael Shaara, the author, was born in 1928 in Jersey City, his writing career began in the early 1950s, and wrote numerous short stories he published “The Killer Angels” in 1974. Shaara also taught Creative Writing and Literature at Florida State University, he died in 1988 at age 59. This review will be discussing the novel titled “The Killer Angels”, Shaara does an exemplary job of telling the story of the Battle of Gettysburg from the soldier’s perspective on both fronts. This novel depicts, one of the most historically important events in American history, as being the bloodiest battles to ever happen to the United States. *** When a spy named Harrison travels to general Longstreet’s headquarters in Virginia to report back of Union...
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...The Civil War of 1861-1865 The Civil War of 1861-1865 One of the biggest reasons for the start of the Civil War (1861-1865) was centered around the issue of slavery. Southern states (known as the slave states) was dependent on agriculture, this created a huge demand for slaves to do the hard labor. Northern states on the other hand, were liberal and favored the idea of abolition of slavery. The politicians in the Northern states lobbied for abolition of slavery, which the Southern states opposed and threatened to secede if the Federal administration took any such step, which they did and thus the start of the Civil War. The imminent beginnings of the Civil War began in 1619 because of the arrival of 20 Black Africans from a Dutch frigate as indentured servants. Shortly after this, the Black Africans were experiencing the life as slaves and both the Southerners and Northerners were selling and trading them for profits. As the North started to pass laws to abolish slavery, in the South slavery was still part of the economy, part of the way of life, and remained legally sanctioned. In 1850, the South, with its slave labor, were exporting over a million tons of cotton a year and during this time in the in the North, the abolitionist movement was gaining momentum. Congress was having an intense argument in 1854 over the two states, Kansa and Nebraska that were added, whether they should be admitted to the Union as Free states or slave states. Congress decided that the states should...
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...made us laugh as much, Charlie Chaplin moved us more deeply, but no one had more courage than Buster. I define courage as Hemingway did: "Grace under pressure." In films that combined comedy with extraordinary physical risks, Buster Keaton played a brave spirit who took the universe on its own terms, and gave no quarter. I'm immersed in his career right now, viewing all of the silent features and many of the shorts with students at the University of Chicago. Having already written about Keaton's "The General" (1927) in this series, I thought to choose another title. "The Navigator," perhaps, or "Steamboat Bill, Jr.," or "Our Hospitality." But they are all of a piece; in an extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies. Most of these movies were long thought to be lost. "The General," with Buster as a train engineer in the Civil War, was always available, hailed as one of the supreme masterpieces of silent filmmaking. But other features and shorts existed in shabby, incomplete prints, if at all, and it was only in the 1960s that film historians began to assemble and restore Keaton's lifework. Now almost everything has been recovered, restored, and is available on DVDs and tapes that range from watchable to sparkling. It's said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn't care. I think he cared, but was too proud to ask. His films avoid the pathos...
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...Have you ever wanted to know the real story of how Abraham Lincoln was Murdered? What do you know about John Wilkes Booth? Was there much going on with the confederate army the time of Lincolns assassination? Should Killing Lincoln be banned in schools due to context and content? Bill O'Rileys book Killing Lincoln should not be banned in schools due to the content and context of the book. The book Killing Lincoln goes all the way back to the beginning of Lincoln's presidency. It started off focusing on the Civil war and the war going on between the Union and the Confederacy. While the Civil war was going on, the big problem during it was slavery. Everyone in the southern states felt that their life was risky due to the election of Abraham Lincoln. With this, seven of the states far down south being Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina all left the union. The war ended up lasting four years led by president Lincoln and the the president of the confederacy who was Jefferson Davis. Robert E. "This is wartime. Killing the enemy is no more illegal than capturing him"(O'Riley 97). Lee and Ulysses S. Grant were the generals that were in charge of the battlefield. The war between the union and the Confederacy was very difficult as it was a matter of life and death to survive. They all went through many times following their leaders to winning or loosing the...
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...States, the fact that everyone had a different perspective on what was truly going on, and that after the war had ended it was the rise of the beginning of realism. The effects that the Civil War had on the literature of America was both short and long term. During the war people were able to write down everything they did, saw, or felt so the world could understand the hidden pains and suffering; this period had a major impact in American literature. April 12, 1861, the day the war had officially...
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...Whats the setting as the story begins? On a bridge over the owl creek in northern Alabama. What was "occurrence" about to take place?A hanging. Who was the captured man?Peyton Farquhar. What side of the Civil War did he sympathize?Confederacy. Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio in 1842. He enlisted to fight in the civil war at 19 years old and fought through the entire war. After the war, Bierce worked as an editor, journalist, and short-story where he wrote about his experiences in detail. In 1914, Bierce went to Mexico and joined Pancho Villa's army as an observer. His last letter to a friend said he was heading to an unknown destination. He disappeared and was never heard from again. The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is his best-known...
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...The Whipping Boy By Richard Gibney In the late 1800 a violent and comprehensive civil war began in the United States of America after Abraham Lincoln supported banning slavery. The war was a conflict between the Union in the North and the Confederacy in the South, Non-slavery against slavery. One of the most significant events in the history of the United States. The North was fighting to end slavery and protect the Union. Richard Gibney addresses the controversial subject slavery in his short story ”The Whipping Boy” that takes place in the end of the American Civil War where slavery was abolished. ”The Whipping Boy” starts in medias res in a slave plantation in the southern part of America around the late 1800 (1864-1865). The reader is introduced to three slaves: Martha, Mikey and Tommy. They work and live at a plantation owned by their masters: Old Mrs. Gage, who is very sick and cries bitter tears over her husband’s death and the young First Lieutenant in the Confederate army, Sterling Gage, who has been in battle at the front for a year. The plot takes off when the three slaves are informed that slavery has been abolished: ”It was the day after the boy from the Union had come to the farm to let the slaves know they were freemen”. The action rises as the slaves are declared freemen and decide to travel to the north and get jobs. ”Then they could all go North, Mikey, his new wife and his brother, all working for wages in the city.” They had stopped working in the...
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...issues of the war. At the time of the war it was commonplace for the military leaders to embed their troops in entrenchments that were nearly impossible to infiltrate. They would then rush their men towards each other in a bloody battle. General Sherman realized that attacking the entrenchments of the enemy was fruitless and killed too many soldiers. He went on a path of flanking maneuvers that helped get around these entrenched soldiers. He followed up this plan by attacking the economy of the South and breaking their resolve. The importance of his new plan can be seen on how his tactics of attacking the land and economy, instead of other human beings, and avoiding head-on confrontation actually saved lives for both the Union and Confederate armies. The march from Atlanta to Savannah has taken on a life of its own for historians today. The campaign’s impact has been over-emphasized by his contemporaries on both sides of the war creating a war hero or war tyrant depending on which side was describing his march. One of the reasons Sherman decided to avoid frontal confrontation with the...
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...Plot summary Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) that followed the war. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States (the "Union") and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy"), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal. A dispute over states' rights has arisen[10] involving enslaved African people who were the source of manual labor on cotton plantations throughout the South. The story opens in April 1861 at the "Tara" plantation, which is owned by a wealthy Irish immigrant family, the O'Haras. The reader is told Scarlett O'Hara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Gerald and Ellen O'Hara, "was not beautiful, but"[11] had an effect on men, especially when she took notice of them. It is the day before the men are called to war, Fort Sumter having been fired on two days earlier. There are brief but vivid descriptions of the South as it began and grew, with backgrounds of the main characters: the stylish and highbrow French, the gentlemanly English, the forced-to-flee and looked-down-upon Irish. Miss Scarlett learns that one of her many beaux, Ashley Wilkes, is soon to be engaged to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. She is stricken at heart. The following day at...
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...Cold Mountain Cold Mountain, a novel wrote by Charles Frazier, is a Civil War story, a magnificent love story between a wounded Confederate soldier – Inman who deserts and begins a lonely, dangerous journey to find the way back home, and his lover – Ada who tries to survive after her father’s death. The Cold Mountain is the destination Inman wants to arrive at, and a place where Ada transform from a city girl into a mountain woman. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying to rebuild their lives from the desperation and disaster of the war, all the while trying to find a way to see each other again--whilst they are so far apart. Cold Mountain opens with Inman staying in a Virginia hospital trying to recover his wound from the war. One day he speaks to a blind man he usually saw through the window of the hospital’s room. When the blind man asks Inman to “cite me one instance where you wished you were blind,” Inman doesn’t know where to begin. There are many like: Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Petersburg, but “Fredericksburg was a day particularly lodged in his mind.” At that time, he wishes that he himself had been blind at Fredericksburg when his regiment shot down thousands of Federal troops. He wishes that there is no war that takes many lives of soldiers, partitions families and makes him shatter by the violence he has witnessed while fighting in the Confederate army. Inman returns to the ward and opens his copy of Bartram’s Travels at random. He finds...
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...States history after the Civil War, in which federal government set the conditions that would allow rebellious southern states back in the union. The ultimate goal of reconstruction was to readmit the south in ways that was acceptable to the North. This meant full political and civil equality for blacks and denial for the political rights of whites. 1865-1877 in the U.S. history, was a period of readjustment following the civil war. The defeated south was ruined, physical destruction brought upon by the invading union forces were great, and the old social economic order founded on slavery had collapsed with nothing to replace it. There were 11 confederate states that needed to be restored to their positions in the union. Radical Republican leaders argued that slavery and the slave power had to be permanently destroyed, and all forms of confederate nationalism had to be suppressed. Before the end of the war, President Lincoln began the task of restoration. “Lincoln was motivated with a desire to build a strong republican party in the south and to end the bitterness developed by the war.” Lincoln issued a proclamation on December 8, 1863 of amnesty and reconstruction for those areas of the...
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...Unit IV: Continuing Sectionalism, Civil War, And Reconstruction. 1853 To 1877 1. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 – A Bill introduced by Steven Douglas to organize the Nebraska territory. He hoped to build a transcontinental railroad making Chicago the terminus, but they could not do this until the Indians were cleared away and the land was in control. Nebraska would presumably become a free state due to the Missouri Compromise but to please the South Douglas argued that the territories should be left open to popular sovereignty. Douglas pushed for the bill and won, therefore the Missouri Compromise was repealed and the North was in an uproar. 2. Birth of the Republican Party- Made up of former Free Soilers, Conscience Whigs, and “Anti-Nebraska” Democrats. Presented themselves as the party of freedom though they were not abolitionist, but they believed that slavery be kept out of the territories. The Republican Party appealed too many to voters who not only disagreed with slavery but also wanted to keep slavery out of their states. 3. Stephan A. Douglas- Known as the “Little Giant,” he was the most prominent spokesman of the Young American movement. He held a series of state offices before being elected for the United States Senate at the age of 29. Douglas wanted to get on with the development of the nation; to build railroads, acquire new territory, and expand trade. This made him suggest and push for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. 4. Popular Sovereignty- Also known as...
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