2. In reality, the man is being hung and he drops down for a couple of seconds and then dies, but in his mind he fell in the water, dogged bullets and cannons, and he thinks he floated on the water for a couple of hours and then sees his wife and dies. In 2 seconds he thought about 6 or so hours. His distorted perceptions are important because that is what he is thinking about when he is dropping to be killed.
3. The narrators attitude toward Farquhar in Part II is he is anxious to become a soldier and the narrator also shows how innocent he is. The narrator�s attitude toward the war was he had a different view from Farquhar, when he thinks that all is fair in love and war.
4. It is ironic that he wanted to become a soldier because in the end of the story he ends up being killed by all of them and wishing that they weren�t shooting at him. It is ironic that he believes in all is fair in love and war because
5. Everything Farquhar says seems to be slowed down and unbelievable in a sense of realism. His plan of escape was exactly like the journey he took in his mind, although it never happened because it was almost impossible.
6. I think Farquhar's senses and thoughts are realistic because he thought of his love, or his wife, last and felt his neck cracking and everything stopping, which was him dying.
7. The limited third-person is appropriate because the narrator doesn't know everything about everyone, only certain things about Farquhar because that's who this story is mainly about. The story might be different if he had used an omniscient third-person narrator because we would have had much more details on everyone, and probably everyones perspective on Farquhar's story.
8. The flashback that Bierce used is effective in this story because it gave us background information on Farquhar and helped us understand why he was being punished and what led up to it.