The author ends part I in this way to maintain suspense about what has happened to Farquhar. The internal thoughts of Farquhar, combined with the tense situation he is in, leave readers uncertain about his fate, creating a sense of anticipation for what will happen next.
Use the passage from "An Occurrence at at Owl Creek Bridge" to answer the question.
He unclosed his eyes and saw again the water below him. “If I could free my hands,” he thought, “I might throw off the noose and spring into the stream. By diving I could evade the bullets and, swimming vigorously, reach the bank, take to the woods and get away home. My home, thank God, is as yet outside their lines; my wife and little ones are still beyond the invader’s farthest advance.”
As these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man’s brain rather than evolved from it the captain nodded to the sergeant. The sergeant stepped aside.
Question
This passage comes at the end of part I in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Why does the author end part I this way?(1 point)
Responses
to reveal that Farquhar has died
to reveal that Farquhar has died
to maintain suspense about what has happened to Farquhar
to maintain suspense about what has happened to Farquhar
to show how delusional Farquhar is
to show how delusional Farquhar is
to make readers think that Farquhar has escaped
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