2. The commanded mans perceptions of time and motion is distorted when he is waiting to be hanged because all the time around him just slows down. This is important because it shows detail about him and tells what he is thinking on his final minutes of living.
3. The narrorator made Fahrquhar look like a patriot trying to help his side win the war. The narrorators attitude towards war was all is fair in love and war.
4. Irony between fahrquhar and the longing to be a soldier is the first time he tries to do something soldier like he gets hung for trying to be a spy for the confederates and gets caught by the Union. All is fair in love and war is ironic because he gets what he deserves and gets hung and he can�t complain because it is fair what happened to him because all is fair in love and war.
5 He was now in full possession of his physical senses. They were, indeed, preternaturally keen and alert. Something in the awful disturbance of his organic system had so exalted and refined them that they made record of things never before perceived. He felt the ripples upon his face and heard their separate sounds as they struck. He looked at the forest on the bank of the stream saw the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf -- he saw the very insects upon them: the locusts, the brilliant bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig. He noted the prismatic colors in all the dewdrops upon a million blades of grass. The humming of the gnats that danced above the eddies of the stream, the beating of the dragon flies� wings, the strokes of the water spiders' legs, like oars which had lifted their boat -- all these made audible music. A fish slid along beneath his eyes and he heard the rush of its body parting the water.
� He could see the soldier�s eye colors when they were about to shoot at him.
� He had super natural strength and abilities after losing blood to his head from being hung for a moment.
� The soldiers missed him when he was swimming and they had a really good aim.
� The journey is connected with the plan of escape in that what occurred in the journey is what he would have liked to had happen instead of what really happened which was him dieing.
6. I think Farquhar�s final thoughts aren�t realistic because he couldn�t have slowed down time, and even if he would have I don�t think it�s possible to jam in 10 minutes of though to half a second.
7. The limited third-person point of view creats the irony in the story because you think the character lived the hanging and shooting but he relly die. It had been different because it will be two senteces more.
8. The flashback contributes to the effectiveness of the story because he tells you what happend to the guy and what he had done to be hung. It tells you what time period was.