Fortunato's The Adventures Of Montresor

This story takes place in Lazio Italy, with a young boy named Montresor. His parents were very wealthy winemakers and they owned a large vineyard. More importantly, Montresor was an only child and had no siblings or friends to play with. As a result of this, he was lonely; One day a boy about his same age came to school, and eventually they became friends. His name was Fortunato and his family was new in town, his dad owned a small Italian restaurant right down the street from Montresor. It was called Russo’s; it had a large wooden stained sign with the Italian flag on it. The two boys clicked from the moment they meet and where the best of friends. Five years passed by, both now of age they were able to do so much more. One fine day …show more content…
The boys continued to walked and laugh, due to excitement. When the holidays came around Fortunato and Montresor were always doing things together; particularly going to parties and getting drunk. They often threw the parties at Montresor’s home because his family owned a wine vineyard and their wine cellar was full of wine. Fortunato didn't really mind the parties being thrown at Montresor’s home, but he wished he could throw one. Soon the parties got better and better, and they were well know everywhere for their drunken, crazed parties. One day Montresor’s and Fortunato where shooting clay pigeons in Montresor’s large backyard. Fortunato wanted to ask Montresor’s if he could maybe throw a party at his father's …show more content…
How could people possibly like me better than Montresor? Fortunato thought about this all the time and finally he tormented himself filling his head with lies. Soon Fortunato got very jealous and decided he would do something about it. He wanted people to like him more or just as much so he was going to tell a lie about Montresor in front of everyone. Surely this lie would make people think Montresor was stupid and people would like Fortunato so much more. He planned to insult Montresor in front of everyone at the next party they threw. Montresor knew nothing of this evil plan, but none the less Fortunato was confident his plan would work. At last the day came for the party, and a lot of people showed to taste there new wine. More and more people kept showing up, so Fortunato decide to get Montresor really drunk and make him look foolish. Pretending to be drunk Fortunato walked into the crowd of people, with Montresor standing nearby, he decided to make an announcement. Hitting the side of his wine glass he held it up and stood on a table, with the sound everyone’s eyes were on