NAME : Salwa Diva Az Zahra

ID : 1205030204

CLASS : 2E

LESSON : THE SHORT STORY

The Narratives That Represent The Historical Context of “An Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge” By Ambrose Bierce

The historical setting of this story is during the Civil War America, the war between
the Union and the Confederacy. The war was over many things, but the two main issues were
states' rights and slavery. Moreover, narrator describe about how a person which is
Farquhar is a civilian and an ardent supporter of the Confederacy, who is not a soldier or
army and tries to do everything he can as a southern planter to defend the southerners and
their ideology of the rights they have as the owner of slaves and land, is represented from this
narrative “That opportunity, he felt, would come, as it comes to all in war time.
Meanwhile he did what he could. No service was too humble for him to perform in the
aid of the South, no adventure too perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the
character of a civilian who was at heart a soldier, and who in good faith and without too
much qualification assented to at least a part of the frankly villainous dictum that all is
fair in love and war”

“The commandant has issued an order, which is posted everywhere, declaring

that any civilian caught interfering with the railroad, its bridges, tunnels, or trains will
be summarily hanged. I saw the order.” From this narrative illustrates how the situation of
war such as power and death is in the hands of the giver of the highest order. The life that
was lived at that time was a life where anyone who broke the order would lose their life. This
narrative describe about what happened during that time if the civilian disrupt the Union or
sabotage the bridges, which is they are going to be hanged if they did.

“My home, thank God, is as yet outside their lines; my wife and little ones are
still beyond the invader’s farthest advance.” This is another narrative that describe how the
situations happened during that time period whic is the civillian cannot live in peace so that
they have to live outside their lines or in the meaning far away from the Union so that they
can dodge attacks.

The narrator try to explain the historical context of what happend during that time, implicitly.