an occurrence at owl creek bridge(国外英文资料).doc

an occurrence at owl creek bridge(国外英文资料) Ann Bruce? Beers (Ambrose Bierce) a film about death, strangeness and illusion of time Tags:at | civil war stories | | Bridge | | Occurrence Owl Creek | thriller | | | | owl Owl Creek Bridge Bridge as Ann Bruce Beers (Ambrose Bierce |)? A railroad bridge in northern alabama. A man stands on a 20 foot bridge overlooking a swift current. He tied his hands behind his back, with a rope round his wrist. A noose tightly encircled his neck, the other one is in his head above the solid bar, slack down to the knees. The sleepers carrying the rails were lined with fixed boards for men and his executioner. The executioner consisted of two soldiers from the southern army, led by a sergeant. The sergeant looks a bit of a sheriff. He may have been a sheriff before the war. A few paces in this makeshift platform, stood a uniformed captain, shoulder epaulettes, heavily armed. At either end of the bridge a sentinel guard, their standard of support posture - gun gun stand vertically in front of the left shoulder, gun hammer against flat chest forearm. This is a formal but cruel posture, the whole body is forced to keep upright posture. What happened in the middle of the bridge seemed unrelated to the two guards, who were responsible for blocking the ends of the wooden boardwalk. One end of the bridge, the bridge guard outside, nobody was in sight; railway line extends outwards, 100 meters deep into the forest, and then turn away from sight. Ahead, farther away, there must be outposts stationed. On the other side of the river is a piece of open land, gentle slope top, stood in a row into the trunk of the fence, the fence is full of rifle shooting through. Brass cannon dark muzzle from an isolated borehole head out, down to the railway bridge, look at fiercely as a tiger does. The slope between the bridge and Fort midway were the spectators - a team of infantry arranged, were at ease standing posture. They are the butt of the rifle barrel, slig