Monday, April 1, 2013

"The cask of amontillado"


The cask of amontillado is about the narrator seeking revenge on fortunato, he didn’t like fortunato because he explained that fortunato hurt him. The narrator also mentions that fortunato insulted him. Hey wanted to get revenge on him. When they met each other at a carnival celebration, and he told fortunato that he had found something rare called amontillado, and he wanted to figure out what it was. The narrator lead fortunato into an underground graveyard, on their way down fortunato kept drinking, and since he was already drunk, it just made everything worst from that point on. So while on their way down fortunato was becoming sick and he keep on talking about the rare amontillado. When they got closer fortunato caught himself in a trap and was chain onto the wall. Fortunato was then cover up with bricks. As he was lying the bricks fortunato begin to yell and when he was almost done the only thing he could hear was the noise of fortunato clothes. He then began to torture fortunato until he started to beg for mercy and he called out his name screaming “montresor”. He then covered fortunato with the last bricks and left him there to die.

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