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Title: What is it about Digby and Jeff that inspires the narrator to call thembad? What will be an ideal ...
Post by: newbem on Jul 20, 2018
What is it about Digby and Jeff that inspires the narrator to call thembad?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Do you think the story would have been better had Bierce told it inchronological order? Why or why not?
 
  What will be an ideal response?
Title: What is it about Digby and Jeff that inspires the narrator to call thembad? What will be an ideal ...
Post by: taylorsonier on Jul 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1



Are Digby and Jeff really bad? Debate this with your students. Certainly they are engaging in the kind of behavior they think is expected of them, which they have seen in films and read in novels (par. 1, 3, 4). When, on the night of the story, their rebellion backfires, throwing them into a grimmer world than they had bargained for, they feel revulsion. As is clear at the end, they have had enough of being bad.

Answer to Question 2



A topic for writing: Compare this story with Borgess The Gospel According to Mark. Both stories deal with men on the brink of death and their inner experiences.
A famous French film adaptation of Owl Creek won an Academy Award in 1964 for best short subject and was later used by Rod Serling for a Twilight Zone episode. It has almost no dialogue and is available on DVD from Library Video Company at www.libraryvideo.co m.