The Cask of Amontillado

This is not what Apollo deserves, he deserves worse. Who would dare to disrespect my enchanting arrows? Sloppily I drew the beaming arrow, trying to guess how amusing watching Apollo breaking his own heart would truly be. This was the revenge I was searching for, something to crush him with pain. I envied everyone that had ever caused in pain, finally it was my turn. But the arrow slipped too quickly, without thought, immediately forcing me to regret my foolish actions. I remorsefully watched a…

Throughout Poe’s stories he relentlessly creates an intriguing atmosphere of fear and horror through the symbolic use of details, an evil narrator, and the proficient ability to draw the reader in to the point where they could fall into the paper. Poe’s readers are drawn into the story on account of his use of the reader’s feelings for the victims and an engaging storyline to vividly paint a portrait of the narrator’s thoughts. Poe’s stories contain numerous bold details that retain the…

through another back. The ones you thought that were there for you but turn around to tell everyone what you told them. Some even envy each other to the point where they end up hurting the relationship or even each other. Montresor in “The Cast of Amontillado” demonstrate such action towards Fortunato by burying him in his family catacomb. Through characterization of Montresor, Poe demonstrates that people with insecurities can easily take thing out of context and can cause them to ruin a good…

Imagine being with someone, with whom you truly adore and love down to your core of your heart, and then waking waking up the next morning and realizing that the person doesn't exist anymore. Well The Secret in the Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri is a book that is relates to that situation. The book is narrated by Benjamin Chaparro, a retired detective for the Buenos Aires judicial system. He narrates about the events that had occurred while the rape and murder case of Liliana Colotto, in Buenos Aires,…

Who are these two mysterious Detectives. First is the intelligent and quiet father Brown. The Second is worldly Brother Cadfael. Father Brown is a very intuitive detective who use confessions to solve his mysteries. While Brother Cadfael uses his worldly experiences to solve mysteries. Father Brown is a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest. Who wears plain clothes and large bland umbrella. He is not like the better-known detectives like Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown is more intuitive rather than…

Edgar allen poe is a very unique writer. He tells stories that have a very scary setting. These stories are meant to be suspenseful. He puts characters in situations that we would only have nightmares about. Hd wrote the Pit and the Pendulum and Fll of the House of Usher. In pit and the pendulum,a man is trapped in a room and has no idea were he is. Its dark and he cant see very well. Using his hands to feel around, he uses a piece of cloth to measure the room. He find…

Insanity is the state of being mad and outrageous. It can drive people to do foolish or irrational things and it can emotionally and mentally change someone, making them a different person. The theme of insanity is depicted in Pablo Picasso’s Cubist Style Self Portrait. In this artwork, the various symbols of madness can be connected to that of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the story of an insane narrator and his obsession with another man’s eye, which leads him to kill the man.…

The killing of EInar in the 10th century Icelandic culture was considered legal since oral oath was viewed, as been a binding contract that had to be respected by the concerned parties. Hrafnkel mentions that Einar is “free to use any of ten or twelve other horses, whether you like, by day or night” (40). Einar agrees to the terms when he says that “he would never be so wicked as to ride the one horse which was forbidden to him” (40). This can be seen as an oral contract between Hrafnkel and…

Edgar Allen Poe used setting and exposition to paint vivid pictures of exactly what he encountered durng his stay at The House Of Usher. Poe began our journey describing a "dull,dark, and soundless day in autumn". He proceeded on the describe the decaying mansion covered in fungus that laid in wait befor him. Edgar explained that he was on his way to visit his ill friend whom he had not seen in many years; so for that purpose only he shook off his trepidations he had for the place. Claiming that…

Abdulahi Abdulahi Assignment 2 Narrative recreation of The Hunchback in the Park and Ozymandias (with a hint of the Horse Whisperer) 3667. That number, most likely, means nothing to you. For a person far removed from the harsh reality of others. For me it is the number of days for which I have been an ‘outcast’. The number of days of which I have resisted the tempting grasp of suicide, which beckoned to me so clearly. The number of days my debilitated and blackened soul has been filled with…