Hangman's Noose: Occurrence At Owl Creek Ridge

Hangman’s Noose The hangman’s noose inspired by “Occurrence at Owl Creek Ridge” written by Ambrose Pierce. Nowadays we want to watch a film were the end is unpredictable, also the movies is not so long that we get bored but keeps us holding on to the edge of our seats. For my action seekers the hangman’s noose would quench their thirst for such a film. A southern planter by the name of Peyton Farquhar, who is devoted to the cause of keeping slavery alive, was outside on his porch enjoying a nice evening with his wife, when a soldier rode up to their gate and asked of some water. It is evident in the way that Farquhar plagues the soldier with questions that he wants to be on the front seeing the gore and relishing in victory with his fellow southern brothers. More than anything in the world

Farquhar is swept into a vortex and is deposited on the southern bank where he is well hidden from his enemies. So the long trek home starts. Safe from harm Farquhar tries to remember the route home but everywhere he looks everything is unrecognizable. In fact in Farquhar were to look at himself in the mirror he would find he had changed. At the beginning of the story Pierce described Farquhar as a handsome man. He had “a straight nose, firm mouth, broad forehead, from which his long, dark hair was combed straight back” (Pierce 1) and “he wore a mustache and pointed beard, but no whiskers; his eyes were large and dark gray and his expression was kind” (Pierce 1) but now the description would make anyone sick to the stomach but it showed how far he was willing to go to get home. Farquhar’s “neck was in pain and lifting his had to it he found it swollen, he had a circle of black where the rope had bruised it, his eyes felt congested that he could no longer close them, and his tongue was swollen with thirst” (Pierce