An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Story and Video Compare/Contrasts

The story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is basically about a man (Peyton Fahrquhar) accused of trying to interfere with a bridge during the civil war.

In the story, you get more of a mental image with the way the events are described which makes you feel like you’re seeing the scenes being played out like when watching a movie. While watching the video, the visuals give you more of a clear picture on what’s happening without trying to focus too much on the descriptions the story gives you. In the story, there’s a chapter that mentions why the man was at the bridge.

Both the video and story are similar and very detailed. They included the ticking of the man’s watch which was at first, distracting to him and his thoughts on his wife and kids. His face and eyes were not covered in both the story and video clip so he was able to see things around him. After coming up for air when dropped into the water, he sees insects and spiders which were mentioned in the story. He then gets pushed away from the soldiers shooting at him by the waters’ current. He also dug his fingers in the sand once he reached land and threw it over himself. He ran through the forest still on the run from the soldiers, and finally reached home. Peyton sees his wife and as he’s about to embrace her, he gets shot in the neck and the scene cuts to him being hanged. Both the story and video have similar endings which basically shows that he didn’t fall into the water in the first place because they were just thoughts before he died on if the rope were to break.