The narration section 1 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" can be best described as detached and impersonal. By means of the directness and coldness of this first paragraph Ambrose Bierce takes us straight into the middle of the action. Bierce simply describes an execution in an unemotional tone by providing just the facts: “A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the sleepers supporting the metals of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners.” In doing so he automatically grabs the reader´s attention.