The Interlopers And The Cask Of Amontillado

In the short story “The Interlopers” and “The Cask of Amontillado”, the rising action gives you a good mental picture of the mood. When the reader reads the line of text from “The Interlopers” that says, “All around them lay a thick-strewn wreckage of splintered branches and broken twigs.” you can picture in your mind the two men with broken branches and twigs lying around them. Also, in “The Cask of Amontillado”, one line from the rising action is “We passed by walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recess of the catacombs.” In this sentence, you get a good description of what the catacombs looked like.