If he had no knowledge, I don't think so. But at the same time, I believe he would have found a way to do something for the war effort, and with the bridge being so close to his house, that may have been easy to do.
"He had been caught in a vortex and was being whirled on with a velocity of advance and gyration that made him giddy and sick. In a few moments he was flung upon the gravel at the foot of the left bank of the stream—the southern bank—and behind a projecting point which concealed him from his enemies. He dug his fingers into the sand, threw it over himself in handfuls, and audibly blessed it. It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble. The trees upon the bank were giant garden plants; he noted a definite order in their arrangement, inhaled the fragrance of their blooms. A strange roseate light shone through the spaces among their trunks and the wind made in their branches the music of æolian harps. He had no wish to perfect his escape—was content to remain in that enchanting spot until retaken." This part of the story stood out to me because this is when Farquhar realized that he finally escaped. The nature around h
The Owl Creek Bridge reminds me of the TV show "The Twilight Zone." In each episode, the main character enters a place where everything seems real but it is not, it is almost like they are in a dream but they are awake. The point is to show the character what would happen if these "dreams" from the twilight zone were to occur in real life. The Owl Creek Bridge is similar because the main character is wondering what would happen if he were to escape from being hung by the soldiers. Somehow he gets his way out of the rope and can get away, the enemy sees him escaping and tries to stop him from leaving they shoot at him. Farquhar finally escapes he is so relieved he is alive and he would be able to see his family again but in the end, you figure out it was only a dream and that he had died.
If he had no knowledge, I don't think so. But at the same time, I believe he would have found a way to do something for the war effort, and with the bridge being so close to his house, that may have been easy to do.
ReplyDelete