An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge Realism Examples

Conor Cornwell

Mr Quindley

English 10

14 February 2023

Realism in 2023

In the modern world there are many different mindsets when it comes to writing and the majors are Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and Realism. Each one has their own benefits and disadvantages when it comes to writing with all the modern views and emerging ideas. A realist however will explain with great detail what is right in front of them and will almost always lead to a much more thorough and deep message. In 2023 it is best to follow the mindset of a Realist because it paints a clear image, gives important lessons, and allows people to more easily relate or connect to the reading.

Realism should return in modern writing because it paints a clear image about a real

The story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a good example of how descriptive writing is able to portray a message because it's about a man who has a last dying wish come true in the characters mind right before death. It starts with, “As he pushes open the gate and passes up the wide white walk, he sees a flutter of female garments; his wife, looking fresh and feel and sweet, steps down from the veranda to meet him”(Bierce). It is incredibly descriptive as the author talks about how the main character sees the wife walk down from the deck and give him a hug. It uses a lot of detail to portray how important the wife was and how as death is approaching, the only thing the character could have thought about was the character's wife. It uses descriptive language to get an important message through to the reader and does so in a very captivating way. The other quote which proves the point is when the author says, “; a blinding white light blazes all about hum with a sound like the shock of a cannon--then all was in darkness and silence! Peyton Farquher was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.”(Bierce). The ending to the story is where the lesson was most prevalent because it's where the real message is revealed. In the simple yet illustrative words of the

Since realism does not use as much fiction as other writing techniques, it generally makes the important aspects of the text easier to understand leading to the reader being able to connect with the characters or issues in the story. The first quote from the article Some Trees and Sh*t , talks about issues in the world and the issues which are important to the general audience. The author says, “He was eloquent, yes, but he had to be; otherwise, he would’ve just been another bum ‘done wrong by the system.’”(Stolnik). It talks about the issue some people feel as if they do not contribute to society or the world in some important way than they would have been pointless and without purpose. The author was able to highlight the issue and allow the reader to connect to it because of how simplistic it was added to the writing. It worked extremely well because many people either feel the same way or are aware of it in others. The other quote from the article which supports the idea of connecting with the writing easily is when the author states, “You can never escape your problems because you are a part of society, but you are not the problem because it is society against you”(Stolnik). The first part discusses the idea of, people can not escape their problems because society says it is normal and people don’t need to get rid of it. The other part discusses