Part one of term paper
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 1600-1900 76) were nowhere near politically ...

Part two of term paper
... human existence gave him the nickname, "the wickedest man in San Francisco" (Contemporary Authors 41). Although often portrayed as a realist for his accounts on the Civil War, "Bierce was not striving for documentary realism, as he himself admitted"(Short Story Criticism 48). Instead, Bierce was 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 ...