I believe the answer is specific.
1. criminal justice, judicial system, crime, law
2. fundamental principles, appropriate behavior
3. courtroom, case
4. right behavior, appropriate
5. jail, sentence
Hi. You did not provide the story that your question refers to, nor do you present the excerpt that the question asks to be analyzed. This makes it impossible for your question to be answered. However, when searching for your question on the internet, I could find another question exactly like yours, which showed that it referred to "A Christmas Memory," a short story written by Truman Capote, but unfortunately, that question also didn't show the excerpt, which prevents me from being able to present you with an exact answer. However I will try to help you as best I can.
We can see that the narrator of this story spends a lot of time with his cousin, because they spend the entire Christmas day together, doing various activities. This narrator is called Buddy and in this story he tells how he and his cousin spent Christmas day talking, flying kites, decorating the Christmas tree and baking cakes to give to strangers on the streets. These activities made them spend a lot of time together and they loved it to the point of repeating them every year.
Bierce used the literary technique of flashback in his stories. When authors use flashbacks in their works, it can be difficult to keep track of the chronological order of the story's events. Ambrose Bierce uses flashbacks and flash-forwards in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” In section 1 of the story, the reader sees a man on a bridge with a noose around his neck and surrounded by soldiers. It’s apparent that the soldiers aim to execute the man, but the reason for his execution is unknown, so some readers might sympathize with the man at this point. Section 2 uses a flashback and shows the circumstances leading to the man being on the verge of execution on the bridge. Readers now learn the man’s history and realize that it’s the man’s foolhardiness that got him into trouble. In section 3, the author uses a flash-forward but tricks the reader into believing that the events taking place are in the present. It's only at the end of the story that readers realize that the man on the bridge never escaped the noose around his neck.
