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Part 1. The story opens with a man standing on a railroad bridge in Alabama during the Civil War. He is a civilian, about 35 years old. His hands are tied. There's a noose around his neck. Union (Federal) soldiers have prepared him to hang and now stand beside him. A soldier guards each end of the bridge.
May 16, 2017 · James, Jesus’ brother, recognized the listening and doing gap long before organizational research existed. In James 1:23-24, he writes, “Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.”
Dec 01, 2019 · 6 Hot-Headed Hero. While he is known as one of the greatest heroes to have ever lived, Endeavor is also known as one of the biggest jerks to have ever become a hero. His short temper and hot-headed are known well to both the hero community and the citizens of Japan. While fans of Endeavor view his attitude as essential for instilling fear in ...
When Farquhar looks beyond the bridge, the railroad soon disappears into the trees. He doesn't know where the railroad goes beyond that point. Even the soldiers standing at the ends of the bridge, guarding it and keeping others off it, may not know what's happening on the bridge.
The second part of the story is an extended flashback that shows how the condemned man ended up on the bridge. The man's name is Peyton Farquhar. He is a Southern planter who owns slaves. He supports the Confederate's secessionist cause. Circumstances prevented him from joining the Confederate army, but he wishes he could because he feels he is a soldier at heart. He wants to do whatever he can to help their cause.
Peyton Farquhar passes out as he falls straight down. He then feels himself wake up , a long time later, from intense pain. The pain starts in his neck and then moves through his whole body. He can't think well; he can only use his senses to attempt to grasp what is happening. He hears a loud splash and a roaring, and suddenly he can think again. He realizes the rope around his neck broke. He's under water and sinking in the river. Everything gets darker.
When Farquhar asks about the Owl Creek bridge, he betrays a damning lack of knowledge of his own surroundings. Farquhar's ignorance foreshadows his doom. Bierce recognized the importance of knowledge. In a letter he wrote in 1911, he stated, "To feel rightly one must think and know rightly.".
Decades before Bierce wrote this story, Edgar Allan Poe had published "The Tell-Tale Heart." Critics often group Poe and Bierce together because of their dark themes, their interest in abnormal psychology (and strange circumstances), and their inclusion of unreliable narrators . Readers encounter all three of these shared characteristics in this story, plus an additional link: the sound of a ticking or beating that swells until it seems to overwhelm the main character. In "The Tell-Tale Heart" this sound comes from the disembodied heart of the man the narrator killed. But a disembodied heart cannot actually continue beating. What the narrator hears is an auditory hallucination, a sound he imagines because he feels guilty about the murder.
Near the end of Part 1 Farquhar thinks about his beloved wife for the first time. He must close his eyes to do so. When he does, he sees her as part of a unit: "his wife and children." He thinks of her several other times but never names her. His thoughts of her include very little specific detail about her personality, nor does she have any dialogue. She is always anonymous and usually part of that same family unit, as when he thinks of his "wife and little ones." As a result his wife remains two-dimensional, less a human being than a concept—the worshipful, dutiful wife, a feminine ideal.
In addition, when Bierce first describes Farquhar in Part 1, he mentions his gray eyes. With the new intensity of his senses, Farquhar can see that the man looking (and shooting) at him from the bridge has gray eyes: a gray-eyed man is trying to kill a gray-eyed man.
While this was always something that enraged Endeavor, the flame hero was always driven to push himself further and further in order to bridge the gap between himself and the number one hero.
After discussing the responsibilities of the number one hero with All Might, however, Endeavor realizes that in order to truly become the number one hero (and a real man) he must face his past actions and work to make amends with the people in his family that he had spent so much time burning.
With his quirk, AKA Hellfire or Hellflame, Endeavor is able to subdue his enemies incredibly quickly all while controlling the flames to such a degree as to not severely injure villains or any of the citizens in the area.
Though he was now revered as the greatest hero in the world, his personal life was still in tatters. There was nothing he could do to fix the pieces of his life that he had spent a lifetime incinerating.
Beyond that, his attitude towards his fellow heroes and the civilians he’s sworn to protect is less than ideal. Endeavor is the perfect example of a person who shows one face to the public while living a completely different life in private.
Though Endeavor is the number two (and eventually number one) hero, it likely that many fans and citizens of the world of My Hero Academia don’t entirely understand how impressive Endeavor is.