Girl/An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

The definition of plot ,in my opinion, is simply the sequence of events that take place in a story. In Girl, the plot was hard for me to follow. As the only events that actually took place were the different types of advice that the mother would give to the girl about growing up and becoming a women. There was the occasional childish interuption from the little girl but that aside, not a whole lot was accomplished in the narrative. The second story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, I really enjoyed. I had seen it on televison in the form of a Twilight Zone. The plot was complex and was difficult to understand when reading it the first time because it went out of sequence. The most simple version of the plot was this: man is tricked by enemy soldier to destroy bridge, man is caught and sentenced to death, man believes he escapes but really just fantasizes about it seconds before his death. The ending gave a nice twist.