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    have gone and some remain." It seems to me‚ when we look back at our years at Thomas Middle School‚ we will have many of the same feelings. Who can forget Rory getting stuck in a mudpit at Loredo Taft? Mr. G’s inspired reading of "The Tell Tale Heart?" When Mr. B electrocuted the whole classroom? Or getting the chance to pie a teacher when we adopted a family at Christmas? Certainly‚ we will remember these specifics and little flashes of others‚ like Kodak moments frozen in time‚ to

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    realizes that his love is gone and he loses her trail that he is following. After he realizes that she is gone he goes through a state of depression and commits suicide. After he dies he meets and angel and tells the knight that his love Eldorado has died and gone to hell. The shadow (angel) then tells the knight how he can get to Eldorado. This poem opens telling us about a Man that is brave so he is called a knight. I believe it is a man because they say “a gallant knight” and knights were usually

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    Catherine E. Holland Mrs. Wilder English 1302 WMW1 8 April 2012 Annotated Bibliography: “The Cask of Amontillado” Baraban‚ Elena V. “E.V. Baraban: Murder in “The Cask of Amontillado.”” RMMLA Homepage. Rocky Mountain Review‚ 28 Oct. 2004. Web. 05 Apr. 2012. Though murder is the centerpiece of “The Cask of Amontillado‚” it is not typical of mysteries with similar subject matter‚ because the murderer tells the reader how he commits his crime. Poe leaves the reader with many questions. The story

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    “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is a traumatizing story about a person who murdered an innocent old man because he thought that his eye was evil. The story states that the narrator was afraid of the eye and that is why he wanted to rid himself of it. The narrator had many signs of being proven to go to jail or to go to a mental hospital. The narrator planned out the murder long before he did it. As he was about to explain how he completed his task‚ he sounded quite proud. He did make sure

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    The story “The Cask of Amontillado” By Edgar Allen Poe has a character that gets misled just like how I was misled about the wonders of the tooth fairy from my parents. My parents said that the tooth fairy was real like how Fortunato in “The Cask of Amontillado” By Edgar Allen Poe was tricked into thinking that the special wine was in the catacombs. The act of misleading someone can make lots of negative types of feelings for somebody. When I was around six years old‚ I was misled by my parents

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    This quote can be related to the mindset of the character Montresor in Edgar Allan Poe’s‚ “The Cask of Amontillado”; which tells a powerful story of revenge. The story starts with our main character and narrator Montresor wishing to seek revenge on Fortunato‚ a wine connoisseur who has insulted him. Montresor lures Fortunato to the Montresor family catacombs with the promise of a whole pipe of Amontillado‚ in which Fortunato agrees. While in the catacombs Montresor then chains Fortunato to a niche

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    This time period brought out the dark side of people. Romanticism brought out the underlying anger in one’s mind. The age of romanticism affected all of these authors. In “The Cask Of Amontillado‚ “ by Edgar Allen Poe‚ there are many dark secrets revealed throughout this short story. In “The Cask of Amontillado‚” the narrator‚ Montresor‚ lures his former friend - we might call him a frenemy today - Fortunato‚ to an underground maze of tunnels and tombs. There he gets Fortunato drunk‚ locks

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    once all is said and done‚ the past can not be changed. “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ like many other stories‚ is focused on the theme of revenge‚ which is a feeling everyone is familiar with and is something that almost always ends badly. One of the more prominent stories about revenge comes from Edgar Allan Poe‚ a very well known author recognized mainly for his dark story writing. His story‚ “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ is an interesting tale about a man who feels insulted and seeks revenge. Essentially

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    Amontillado State of Mind After the murder‚ Montresor started to feel bad about what he had done to his friend. In the story‚ the “Cask of Amontillado” Poe creates a mood using vengeance‚ desperation‚ and severity. These moods all show that the story is disturbing. In the story‚ it shows that Montresor wants vengeance on Fortunato because he made fun of his family. When Montresor takes him to his house to kill him‚ Fortunato reveals a cough that sounds like "Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!"(Poe 868). Then Montresor

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    How “The Cask of Amontillado” Showed Romanticism The story of “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe has many characteristics of Romanticism. Romanticism is the movement of freedom and imagination of art and literature‚ this era was from early 1800 to 1860 which is the early 19th century this was all changed by the writing of Edgar Allen Poe by showing how he could get away from peritain writing. The first charcteristic is intuition over reasoning‚ the second form that shows romanticism characteristics

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