A) While thinking of his loved ones, a disturbance stopped him. The sound of a blacksmith's hammer striking an anvil distorted his thoughts. What it was in reality, was the ticking of his watch. The driftwood, which was sluggishly floating down the rapidly moving river, was his distortion on time. The time went by so slowly while he was waiting to be hanged but normally, it went by quickly like the river.
B) His distorted perceptions were important because the ticking of his watch represented his life, time, and thought and how it went by so quickly.
