Read the excerpt from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge."

then all at once, with terrible suddenness, the light about him shot upward with the noise of a loud splash; a frightful roaring was in his ears, and all was cold and dark. the power of thought was restored; he knew that the rope had broken and he had fallen into the stream. there was no additional strangulation; the noose about his neck was already suffocating him and kept the water from his lungs. to die of hanging at the bottom of a river! —the idea seemed to him ludicrous. he opened his eyes in the darkness and saw above him a gleam of light, but how distant, how inaccessible! he was still sinking, for the light became fainter and fainter until it was a mere glimmer. then it began to grow and brighten, and he knew that he was rising toward the surface—knew it with reluctance, for he was now very comfortable. “to be hanged and drowned,” he thought? “that is not so bad; but i do not wish to be shot. no; i will not be shot; that is not fair.”

what does the motif of light represent in the excerpt and in the rest of the story?

Light, as perceived in media, is a sign of death. As the noose broke he traveled into the water, fearing death from suffocation. This to him was not the worst imaginable outcome for Farquhar. As his body sunk the light filtering in to the water became harder and harder to see. He believed he was approaching death. Then the light began to increase and his body started traveling towards the surface. He was getting closer to the light. Now he feared not to drown but to be shot, a far worse outcome in his mind. Throughout the rest of the story, light plays an intricate part. The journey that he goes through mentally while approaching death is tied with light. The sun begins to fade when his hysterics get intense, imagining a far-fetched world around him that proves to be a fallacy by the story's end.

Death and dying is the correct answer for this question.

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14 chromosomes

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sperm cells of the russian dwarf hamster contain 14 chromosomes. how many chromosomes are found in a normal body cell of the russian dwarf hamster? a cell with 20 chromosomes undergoes mitosis.

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