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    Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff starts out Tub waiting for his friends to pick him up. The suspense starts with rising action by his friends being over an hour late. I chose “Hunters in the Snow to be the more suspense than “The Cask of the Amontillado.” Hunters keeps the reader on edge by displaying three different personalities. Confrontation due to human nature. The reader may question whether they are going to show up at all. This is an example of rising action. When Frank and Kenny show

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    character in the short story “The Cask Of The Amontillado” and he wanted revenge so he went in the catacombs with his friend Fortunato to kill him.While in the movie The Night Of The Hunter (1955) directed by Charles Laughton the character Harry Powell gets out of jail and married Willa Harper to find $10‚000 hidden somewhere inside there house.Later Harry Powell kills his wife in order to search for the $10‚000.Both “The Cask Of The Amontillado” and Night Of The Hunter show a very suspenseful and dark

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    writer that goes by the name of Edgar Allen Poe. One thing he carries in his bag of tricks for creating suspense is making time stand still‚ so to speak. His writing will appear to be dragging on forever and you’ll feel as if the part you’re waiting for will never happen. Poe creates this illusion by describing every little detail going on in the current setting. For example in‚ “The Cask of Amontillado‚” as they went further down the caverns‚ Poe describes every little detail in

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    like the reader is left in suspense wondering about how Marlin and Nemo are going to find each other in Finding Nemo‚ many authors use suspense to keep the reader interested in the story. Suspense is the excitement or tension that readers feel as they wait to find out how a story ends or a conflict is resolved. In "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell‚ "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe‚ and "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury‚ all three authors use suspense to captivate the reader’s

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    The revenge and mislead in Poe’s "The Cask of Amontillado" Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Cask of Amontillado" is the story of an elderly man and third person narrator name Montresor who makes a abiguity statement "a thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could." He vowed revenge and gave utterance to a threat. In Poe’s story from Montresor’s point of view provides the reader with insight into Montresor

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    The Cask of Amontillado & To F - - S S. O - - D If the American character can be said to contain equal portions of cynicism and idealism‚ then two particular works of Edgar Allan Poe reveal this character. In The Cask of Amontillado we are treated to a �revenge� tale‚ one in which pessimism and cynicism are equally mixed as the narrator methodically‚ purposefully and completely exacts his revenge on the previous �thousand injuries of Fortunato [he] had borne as best [he] could� (191). In the poem

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    The Cask of Amontillado Irony and symbolism are tools used in writing to convey individual messages throughout the story. It is Edgar Allan Poe ’s intense use of symbolism and irony throughout the Cask of Amontillado that gives this short story its suspense and horror filled theme. The Cask of Amontillado is a horror short story‚ which revolves around the themes of revenge and pride. The plot involves two men: Montresor‚ the narrator‚ who is an Italian aristocrat seeking revenge against the second

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    Suspense: The Upheld of Poe vs. Connell The suspense in “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Most Dangerous Game” are very simple but also very different. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story‚ “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ is about a man‚ Montresor‚ who lures Fortunato‚ a man who has done Montresor wrong‚ into catacombs and soon kills him. Equally important‚ Richard Edward Connell Jr.’s short story‚ “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ involves big game hunters‚ Rainsford and General Zaroff‚ although it takes a turn

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    of the setting could be there just to create imagery. Even if part of the setting may not seem to be important when it first comes up in the story it may be of importance later on. Much like any other piece of literature the setting of “The Cask of Amontillado” affects many parts in the story‚ it creates a dark mood‚ causes the characters to become less aware of everything around them‚ and foreshadows death. This story has many setting descriptions that give the reader a dreary feeling. The characters

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    The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe Analysis The readers can guess from the very first line which says “THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could‚ but when he ventured upon insult‚ I vowed revenge” that “The Cask of Amontillado” must be a horror fiction. Also‚ this is the first clue that this story is not going to end well. This short story is about a man named Montresor is going to take his friend’s life—Fortunato who insulted him by taking him to a catacomb‚ chaining

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