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The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Cask of Amontillado “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-tale Heart”, has a setting in the mid 1800’s, where the narrator in each stories killed another character, hid their victims and leaving no evidence behind. But both of these stories don’t end the same, one of these stories, the murder gets away, and the other faces his consequences. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor tells the story of the day that he took his revenge on Fortunato, because for insulting Montresor's family, mocking him for some reason, and questioning his knowledge, and education. Basically Montresor killed fortunate for no reason but in his mind all the reason he should. Reading the story He persuades the audience that he wasn’t insane, but in reality, Montresor is. Fortunato was the victim in this story and had no clue the killing that was about to happen to him. He meets Fortunato, at a costume carnival celebration and sees fortunato already drunk. Montresor approaches Fortunato telling him he has a barrel of a rare brandy called Amontillado. Fortunato want some of this Amontillado, so Fortunato follows Montresor to his family catacombs. That is where he told Fortunato the Amontillado was at. The narrator leads Fortunato deeper into the catacomb, Montresor led Fortunato into a man-sized hole in the wall. Montresor got a hold of Fortunato and chains Fortunato to the wall, and then begins to close Fortunato in the hole, left him there to die. In “The Tell-tale HeartSynthesis
The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Cask of Amontillado “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-tale Heart”, has a setting in the mid 1800’s, where the narrator in each stories killed another character, hid their victims and leaving no evidence behind. But both of these stories don’t end the same, one of these stories, the murder gets away, and the other faces his consequences. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor tells the story of the day that he took his revenge on

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