The Unexpected Complication

Throughout all of our lives we experience different situations and events but sometimes these events take a different turn then the intended. In “Indian Camp” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ernest Hemmingway and Ambrose Bierce bring the reader face to face with different situations that go sour. “As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about …

…Section III, which tells the reader about Peyton's hallucination of escaping the hanging. If the author wanted to just tell the story in order, he could have went in the order of Section II, I, and the III. As in the plot, this story could have happened in another place and time. The Intellectual reader will agree that “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a slightly better and has a more extreme unexpected ending.