Is death scary? Birth, old age, sickness, and death are natural stages of human being which is unavoidable. In the end, everyone has to suffer through the death; however, is this true that every death is scary or it is not frightening as it seems, yet appeals meaningfulness? “The Man to Send Rain Clouds" composed by Leslie Marmon Silko (Story #1) and “The Cask of Amontillado” from Edgar Allan Poe (Story #2) are two pieces of literature which is going to answer the questions above- death is not a loss of life it has meaning as well as death causes great consternation. Indeed, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds" begins with third person voice to describe the death of Teofilo when Ken and Leon spotted him under a cotton tree (Silko 1). Their reaction
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Revenge could happen anywhere and anytime among society. It is an action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone. There are many ways to revenge by using sharpen words to beat someone down, ignore that significant one, or sometimes people just get on with their life by living a better life as a wise revenge. However, if someone must die for their fault is considered as the cruelest revenge at all. At the very beginning of “Cask of Amontillado", narrator Montresor expresses his desire to revenge Fortunato toward the insult that Fortunato has done to him. His attitude is full of feud which promises to have a bloody ending or someone must pay for his guilt with a heavy price. Montresor masterfully plans his revenge in a neat way. He used Fortunato's weak point, “connoisseurship in wine", as a target for him to attack (Poe 3). Finally, Montresor decide to allure Fortunator by claiming of having the rare Amontillado wine. Montresor is very cunning when he choose the Carnival Season in Italy as the suitable time to occur. Carnival Season is a big festival in Italy where people wear masks as the central feature in the festival. Carnival Season in this story is like a metaphor where everyone is covered by a mask no one knows their real face. It is like a implication between Montresor and Fortunato when Fortunator does not have any ideas of Montresor's motivation. And Montresor is wearing a mask to pretend as a generous person by showing Fortunato the Amontillado wine. He lures Fortunato into his cellar for the rare wine. When they get into the catacomb, Montresor suddenly chain Fortunato to the wall and brick the opening in an inhumanity way. “I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth and the seventh tier. The wall is now nearly upon the level of my breast.” (Poe 76). He buries poor Fortunato alive. Through his action, reader could see that he
Revenge could happen anywhere and anytime among society. It is an action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone. There are many ways to revenge by using sharpen words to beat someone down, ignore that significant one, or sometimes people just get on with their life by living a better life as a wise revenge. However, if someone must die for their fault is considered as the cruelest revenge at all. At the very beginning of “Cask of Amontillado", narrator Montresor expresses his desire to revenge Fortunato toward the insult that Fortunato has done to him. His attitude is full of feud which promises to have a bloody ending or someone must pay for his guilt with a heavy price. Montresor masterfully plans his revenge in a neat way. He used Fortunato's weak point, “connoisseurship in wine", as a target for him to attack (Poe 3). Finally, Montresor decide to allure Fortunator by claiming of having the rare Amontillado wine. Montresor is very cunning when he choose the Carnival Season in Italy as the suitable time to occur. Carnival Season is a big festival in Italy where people wear masks as the central feature in the festival. Carnival Season in this story is like a metaphor where everyone is covered by a mask no one knows their real face. It is like a implication between Montresor and Fortunato when Fortunator does not have any ideas of Montresor's motivation. And Montresor is wearing a mask to pretend as a generous person by showing Fortunato the Amontillado wine. He lures Fortunato into his cellar for the rare wine. When they get into the catacomb, Montresor suddenly chain Fortunato to the wall and brick the opening in an inhumanity way. “I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth and the seventh tier. The wall is now nearly upon the level of my breast.” (Poe 76). He buries poor Fortunato alive. Through his action, reader could see that he