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Appearance Vs. Reality In The Cask Of The Amontilago
The decision I made about appearance vs. reality as the theme to analyze is the right decision Because murder, friendship, fear are all things that happen in the world and it all relates to the story.“There was than a long and obstinate silence(Beers et.al 292) is illustrated in the short story, “ the Cask of the Amontilago” this quote supports my claim because it describes the very last sound Fortunato made by saying “There was than a long and obstainate silence(Beers et.al 292). The decision I made about appearance Vs. reality was a great decision because I feel I can really get ahold of this topic and fully understand what it means by appearance vs. reality. My reason for that is there are plenty of real life problems like The cask …show more content…
Zaroff had to try to describe why he had humans instead of animals as Zaroff was trying to explain Rainsford was still confused on why he would do such a crime but Zaroff starts describing it in a way that he can to understand, Zaroff wants a challenge, that's when Rainsford starts accepting the action and thinking about do it himself. That's when it jogged my memory about how there are lots of things people do differently that we don't understand but if you're willing to try it you might actually be surprised on the way you feel about it. In the Dangerous Games Rainsford goes on the hunt for Zaroff and soon finds him in the end and takes his life. Zaroff is experienced in hunting humans and Rainsford isn't in the story you might of assumed that Rainsford would die because Zaroff is gloating about all of the men he had killed so he obviously knew what he was doing other then Rainsford who surprisingly killed Zaroff and it made me think how in reality we can assume one thing will happen but instead it actually goes the other way, like if you're working and you feel you're going to fail

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