What effect does being tricked into this false prediction have on the reader?
How does the author create a surprise ending? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.
The author creates the surprise ending by presenting Farquhar’s imagined escape as if it were real. The reader follows him through the water and forest until he reaches his wife and is about to embrace her. The final sentence suddenly reveals that “Peyton Farquhar was dead” and that his body was hanging from the bridge.
At this point, what is a logical prediction?Farquhar will drown.Farquhar will be captured.Farquhar will escape.
Which of the following did you include in your response? Check all of the boxes that apply.
At which point in the story does the reader learn that Farquhar has died? the end of Part Ithe end of Part IIthe first sentence of Part IIIthe last sentence of Part III
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