By songs like the negro spirituals
Changes brought about by the acts prevented large farmers from taking lands from smaller farmers.
Small farmers could no longer work on common lands and had to move to cities for work.
Peasants started working on enclosed lands and soon became wealthy because of higher wages.
Landowners forced peasants to build roads and bridges as part of the new enclosure laws.
Bierce uses the method to draw out a single moment in the life of the person to a long drawn introspection on life.
Explanation:
The Incident at Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce is one of the great short stories of all time.
It uses the last instant of a life of a solider who is sentenced to death for his introspection on life and his hope of escaping the ordeal.
This is drawn out in suspense by the methodical writing style of the writer who draws out the moment into a story that we start believing that he has actually escaped.
By the time the reality hits us the, he is already dead.
This is it..................
