Monsters are not real, there is no monster under the bed or in the closet. The only monsters on this blue planet are the ones in your head. People see this everyday in literature and in the world people live in. The best kind of stories all the ones that show life the way it is not these happy ever after. Stories like The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, another story is Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor, and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. These stories are so attractive because life is not one perfect thing it is a chaotic mess that shows the darkest sides of people. In The Veldt by Ray Bradbury Although humans do good in the world, they can also be monsters, all the short stories end badly especially when the antagonist is in the position of loss; loss of their ideal place, loss of their pride, and loss of control.
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In Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor, the reader follows Joy and Manley who begin to date each other. Joy is missing a leg and has a heart condition, Manley has the same heart condition. They begin to date with their common disability, and Pointer says, "Listen, don't you think some people was meant to meet on account of what all they got in common and all? Like they both think serious thoughts and all?(O’Connor 6), In the end Manley was a human who fell to the dark side of human nature. Manley wanted power and dominance, but he also needed Joy’s trust. In the Cask of Amontillado Montresor has to have Fortunato’s trust before he betrays him. Montresor believes he is avenging his pride and he says, “It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.(Poe 1),” In both these stories Manley and Montresor both have to play this weak slightly stupid character to gain their victims
Every person has a place where they can share their deepest secrets and not hide their innermost …show more content…
In Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor, the reader follows Joy and Manley who begin to date each other. Joy is missing a leg and has a heart condition, Manley has the same heart condition. They begin to date with their common disability, and Pointer says, "Listen, don't you think some people was meant to meet on account of what all they got in common and all? Like they both think serious thoughts and all?(O’Connor 6), In the end Manley was a human who fell to the dark side of human nature. Manley wanted power and dominance, but he also needed Joy’s trust. In the Cask of Amontillado Montresor has to have Fortunato’s trust before he betrays him. Montresor believes he is avenging his pride and he says, “It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.(Poe 1),” In both these stories Manley and Montresor both have to play this weak slightly stupid character to gain their victims