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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. By Ambrose Bierce . Think and Discuss. Is it better to be idealistic and positive about life, encouraging people to believe that we can become anything we dream, or to be realistic, even if this can mean facing depressing truths and losing hope?.

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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  1. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge By Ambrose Bierce

  2. Think and Discuss • Is it better to be idealistic and positive about life, encouraging people to believe that we can become anything we dream, or to be realistic, even if this can mean facing depressing truths and losing hope?

  3. What is Realism? • A literary movement that portrays life and the world as realistically as possible. • “No sugar-coating – the painful truth!” • It’s fiction, but “Realistic Fiction” • no fantasy, no fake happy endings. • Became popular around the time of the Civil War

  4. Realism … with Hershey’s kisses • Take a Hershey’s kiss from the bag. Eat it and then narrate the experience in a short paragraph. • Describe how it FEELS, how it TASTES, and the THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS that come to mind. • You have 5 minutes.

  5. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” • Since the main focus of Realist writers is portraying reality faithfully, they have to consider our experience of reality. But is everyone’s reality the same? • Realist writers are interested in showing how people’s minds actually interpret the real world around them – this means trying to realistically describe the narrator’s thoughts and feelings.

  6. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” • While we read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” we will identify how Ambrose Bierce uses language to express the way the world looks and feels to the protagonist. How much of reality is made up of people’s thoughts and opinions about it?

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