1)In Part 1, Bierce includes few details about the condemned man and does not reveal the reason why he is being hanged. How does this help create suspense?
This helps create suspends because the reader wants to go on and why this man is being hanged, therefore the reader will read more to understand
2)In what ways are the condemned man�s perceptions of time and motion distorted as he is waiting to be hanged? Why are his distorted perceptions important?
This commanded mans perception of time and motion is dostorted when he is waiting to be hanged because all the time around him slows down. this is important because it shows deteail about him and tell what he is thinking in his final minutes.
3)What seems to be the narrator�s attitude toward Farquhar in Part II? What is the narrator�s attitude toward war?
the narroater make Farquahr look like a patriot trying to help his side win the war. the narroaters sttitide towards was war all is far in love and war.
4)Considering the outcome of the story, what is ironic or surprising about Farquhar�s longing for the �larger life of a soldier?� What is ironic about the fact that Farquhar agrees with the saying that �all is fair in love and war?�
Irony between farquhar 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 cant complain because it is fair what happened to him because all is fair in love and war.
5)What details in Part III suggests that Farquhar�s journey occurs in his mind? How is the journey connected with the plan of escape that occurs to him moments before he is hanged?
� 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)Explain whether you think the portrayal of Farquhar�s final thoughts and sensations is realistic.
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)Point of view refers to the vantage point from which the story is told. Why is the limited third-person point of view appropriate for this story? How might the story be different if Bierce had used an omniscient third-person narrator?
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) How does Bierce�s use of flashback contribute to the effectiveness of the story?
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.