Job # 4- Questions Why do you think Bierce told the story in a rearranged order(beginning with Peyton's death and then introducing him in the second chapter)?
I think Ambrose Bierce told this story in this manner, by rearranging the order, to show what happened, and then to sort of cover what had happened, what was going through the man's head, just to end everything that way.
It is a classic attention-getter to start with the climax. The weakness of that beginning, of course, is that you don't understand how the story reached this point. To solve this difficulty, Bierce takes us back to the beginning of the story before finishing it.
I think Ambrose Bierce told this story in this manner, by rearranging the order, to show what happened, and then to sort of cover what had happened, what was going through the man's head, just to end everything that way.
ReplyDeleteI think he did it to capture the readers attention and make them want to figure out what happened.
ReplyDeleteIt is a classic attention-getter to start with the climax. The weakness of that beginning, of course, is that you don't understand how the story reached this point. To solve this difficulty, Bierce takes us back to the beginning of the story before finishing it.
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