Bierce
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Serving as a union soldier in the Civil War,
learned of war' s savageness, and how stupid and degrading
it was. His writing style can be contributed to his war
time experiences. His works are blunt, brutally realistic,
and his attacks on others in the San Francisco Examiner,
(American Authors ....
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.... interested in manipulating the reader's
viewpoint. The perspective in which the story is written is
used to manipulate the reader's viewpoint, for example in
"Chickamauga", where a bloody battlefield is seen through
the eyes of a deaf child(Short Story Criticism 48), or in
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", where a man about to be
hanged for treason, dreams of his escape. Bierce's often
ironic twists leave the reader stunned. As noted by Alfred
Kazin, "There is invariably a s ....
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