Ambrose Bierce, Tim Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

Marcus Aurelius once said, “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Ambrose Bierce, Tim O’Brien, and Ernest Hemingway each had their own opinion on war. These opinions were very much derived from each writer’s personal experience with war. Ambrose Bierce and Tim O’Brien were soldiers. Ernest Hemingway was not a soldier, but he did work for the Red Cross and witnessed the very real horrors of war. Each writer portrayed his individual opinion through his writing.
Ambrose Bierce wrote “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” In this short story, each and every single word he wrote had his opinion on war all over it. In the beginning, he wrote with such a lack of emotion. Bierce even said, “In the code

When Tim O’Brien was drafted he resisted running away to Canada and reluctantly joined his infantry. In this short novel, Tim O’Brien describes each individual’s personal possessions so that the reader is able to see more clearly how each soldier still holds on to home and who he used to be. I believe this symbolizes himself. I do not think he wanted to let go of who he was even when he was given no other choice. I do believe he constantly wanted to return home and be the man he thought he should have become before he got drafted. Through “The Things They Carried,” he was able to put the reader in his shoes. As Alex Vernon says, “Tim O’Brien is a master of the imagination as an inventor of stories, a creator of characters, and an alchemist of personal experience. Most if not all of his books aren’t just products of the imagination; they are studies of the imagination” (1). Through his unique way of conveying personal experience, Tim O’Brien was able to show the reader what he perceived to be the horrors of