This thought from Peyton Fahrquhar, started getting me thinking the question why? How would anybody in their right mind rather be hung, and drowned then shot. The way I see it is why suffer while you are dying, when one bullet could just end it all? It does not seem like normal human nature, to want to have a painful death.
On the other hand Peyton Fahrquhar might not have been your average person. Even though the book states in the beginning of chapter 2 that he was a well off planter, from a highly respected Alabama family. We can clearly see from the context of chapter 3 that Peyton Fahrquhar has some very interesting thoughts as well. Not many average people have these thoughts, at the same time, average people are not at the brink of death either...
What do you guys think?
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Yeah that part was very confusing. Maybe it wasn't so much Peyton saying "I don't want to be shot" but it was him saying "I don't want to be shot, drowned, and hanged all at the same time!". Also, if the bullet wasn't fatal, it would've added to Peyton's misery. But I agree with you, I would have rather been shot :)
ReplyDeleteOr... perhaps he wanted to die because of the Unions stupidity (having too weak of a rope) and didn't want to give his enemies the satisfaction of shooting him. Whatever the reason, one's thought process probably isn't very clear when you're choking at the bottom of a river...
I agree with both of you, he is a peculiar man, and he was talking about how he didn't want to be shot, drowned, and hanged in one day. Talk about a bad day....
ReplyDeleteI also think that is the case. But another possibility could be that he was prideful and wanted a certain death to prove he died a man with honor. Sorry if that makes absolutely no sense. I'm just throwing out some ideas :).
ReplyDeleteThat makes perfect sense to me man!
DeleteI think that made perfect sense. Perhaps he thought dying with honor would make up for the fact he couldn't be in war combat...
ReplyDeleteI definitely think honor could have something to do with it. Getting hung for your cause is one thing, but getting shot in the river is more "oh whatever, just shoot him". Hopefully that makes sense. :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, he could just be thinking "I get hung, but the rope breaks,so now I'm being hung at the bottom of the river, and getting shot too just wouldn't be fair!" Perhaps being hung and drowned was now "familiar" to him, and getting shot would add something different.
I didn't even think about honor being involved in it, but it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was thinking. Yay something I did made sense XD.
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