Read the excerpt from part 3 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

His neck was in pain and lifting his hand to it found it horribly swollen. He knew that it had a circle of black where the rope had bruised it. His eyes felt congested; he could no longer close them. His tongue was swollen with thirst; he relieved its fever by thrusting it forward from between his teeth into the cold air. How softly the turf had carpeted the untraveled avenue-he could no longer feel the roadway beneath his feet!

Based on the excerpt, which is the most reasonable plot prediction?

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Mckenzie

23 April, 17:35

Read the excerpt from part 3 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

His neck was in pain and lifting his hand to it found it horribly swollen. He knew that it had a circle of black where the rope had bruised it. His eyes felt congested; he could no longer close them. His tongue was swollen with thirst; he relieved its fever by thrusting it forward from between his teeth into the cold air. How softly the turf had carpeted the untraveled avenue-he could no longer feel the roadway beneath his feet!

Based on the excerpt, which is the most reasonable plot prediction?

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Renee Keller · Answer 1

The most reasonable plot prediction is the survival of the man that was almost hanged.

Explanation:

The novel An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is about the story of Peyton Farquhar, a Southern plantation owner and Confederate spy about to be hanged by the Union Army for attempting to blow up a railroad bridge. Farquhar, like all of Bierce's fictional characters, lives in an ethereal world where the natural and the supernatural flow seamlessly together.