Read the excerpt from part 3 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

His neck was in pain and lifting his hand to it found it horribly swollen. He knew that it had a circle of black where the rope had bruised it. His eyes felt congested; he could no longer close them. His tongue was swollen with thirst; he relieved its fever by thrusting it forward from between his teeth into the cold air. How softly the turf had carpeted the untraveled avenue—he could no longer feel the roadway beneath his feet!
Based on the excerpt, which is the most reasonable plot prediction?

The most reasonable plot prediction is the survival of the man that was almost hanged.

Explanation:

The novel An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is about the story of Peyton Farquhar, a Southern plantation owner and Confederate spy about to be hanged by the Union Army for attempting to blow up a railroad bridge. Farquhar, like all of Bierce’s fictional characters, lives in an ethereal world where the natural and the supernatural flow seamlessly together.

in 1636, roger williams settled at the tip of narragansett bay after being banished from the massachusetts bay colony for his religious views, on land granted to him by the narragansett tribe. he called the site "providence plantation" and declared it a place of religious freedom.

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