Read the excerpt from section 3 of "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." overhead, as he looked up through this rift in the wood, shone great garden stars looking unfamiliar and grouped in strange constellations. he was sure they were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance. how does the excerpt contribute to the theme of fate? it suggests that farquhar will always be hunted by his captors. it suggests that farquhar is wrestling with forces larger than himself. it suggests that farquhar’s problems are insignificant in the context of the world. it suggests that farquhar will always be haunted by his decisions.

This excerpt from section 3 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", contributes to the theme of fate because It suggests that Farquhar is wrestling with forces larger than himself.  In the first section, Peyton Farquhar is on a railroad bridge twenty feet above the water. His wrists are tied on his back and in his neck, there is a noose. He is surrounded by soldiers of the Northern army. His execution is going to take place very soon. In section 2, the narrator introduces Farquhar using a flashback to tell us that he is a planter devoted to the Southern cause. In section 3, the narrator goes back to the present and Farquhar is falling from the bridge. He is feeling pain but everything looks strange for him, the stars above him, the language that he hears, and everything appear to have a malign significance.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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