JOB #3 - LITERATURE CONNECTIONS

 The story of Owl Creek Bridge reminds me of a movie called "Inception." In it, the movie characters are trying to achieve a goal of making someone believe something that is fake. To do this, they put their victims in a sleep like state, and then they themselves enter the victim's dream. Before you know it, they are in a triple dream which is a dream in a dream in a dream. Owl Creek Bridge reminds me of this because during the story, I thought that Fahrquhar was in real life when he was being shot and chased by the soldiers. We learn at the end however, that it was all part of a dream and none of it was actual reality. The movie Inception ends with us unsure if the movie itself is real or all in a dream, and that is how I find these two stories similar.

Another connection I see to Owl Creek Bridge, is in my own life. The story starts describing how much trouble Fahrquhar is in. He has a rope around his neck, and he is standing on two flimsy pieces of wood about to die. Then right after the soldier gets the command to pull away the wood, Fahrquhar breaks free and he goes on a long escape path. This correlates to my own life because one time, I tried to jump over my cousin's legs to show off, and instead of clearing them, I jumped on top of them resulting in his pain. For the next several hours after doing this, I replayed the situation over and over again how I could have not hurt him by jumping higher, or walking around him instead of jumping. I think this is somewhat similar to what happened to Fahrquhar. He realized that he would never see his family again and his pride and selfishness had led to his family about to be left fatherless, and he created a fantasy in his mind where he escaped not just the ropes, but also reality. The same thing happened to me. I replayed the situation over and over again in my mind until I was satisfied with the fantasy world where I didn't hurt my cousin.