This time Fortunato had gone too far with being rude and horriable to Montresor so he felt that he had to get revenge on Fortunato. He decided to get him back and worse. 3. How did Montresor know that the house would be empty? Montresor knew the house would be empty because it was carnival season and everyone would be out enjoying themselves. It was a holiday so he told them they can all go out and celebrate that night Montresor took Fortunato to his house. 4. Where had the stone and mortar‚ used by Montresor to wall up the entrance
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compared to brown beetles. Personification: “Red flowers bend their heads in awful sorrow.” The poet gives the flower qualities of a human being - the emotion of sorrow. Irony/Metaphor: “It is the festival of guns‚ the carnival of misery.” The words “festival” and “carnival” are indicative of joyous celebrations but what the country is really experiencing is sorrow‚ not
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Trinidadian. Born: Taco‚ Trinidad‚ 1935. Career: Proofreader‚ Trinidad Guardian‚ 1953-54; civil servant: agricultural assistant in Jamaica‚ 1956-66; journalist‚ Trinidad and Tobago Express‚ 1967; lecturer in English‚ University of the District of Columbia‚ 1971-73; writer-in-residence‚ Hartwick College‚ Oneonta‚ New York‚ 1986. Since 1977 teacher‚ University of the West Indies‚ Saint Augustine‚ Trinidad. Awards: B.P. Independence award‚ 1965; Pegasus Literary award‚ 1966; Guggenheim fellowship‚ 1980;
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alterations. Sounds like the impossible right? But if granted the chance would you take the chance? In the book “Something Wicked This Way Comes” two best friends‚ Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway‚ fight against the harsh realities of an evil carnival and the carnival leader‚ Mr. Dark‚ who feeds on human fears and sadness and owns an age modifying carousel. As young or old as you are on the outside‚ it’s what on the inside that counts. Your physical age can be younger than your mental age or your physical
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Andrew Hoskinson / Chris Pearcey / Lane Todoroff Ms. Seiler ENC1102‚ Period 4 26 September 2013 How Poe Observes the Characteristics of the American Gothic Literature Tradition in “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe was destined to a life of darkness and insanity. As the son of traveling performers‚ Poe was abandoned to the horrors of the world at a young age. Poe is generally regarded as the father of American Gothic Literature‚ an example to such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman
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Posse themselves‚ who first coined the term‚ and are kind of like the spiritual leaders of the Juggalo’s‚ on their 1997 album “The Great Milenko‚” there is in fact a song entitled ’What is a Juggalo?”. In it‚ the self styled prophets of the Dark Carnival‚ Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope‚ sing “What is a Juggalo? Let me think for a second‚ well‚ oh‚ he gets butt-naked and then he walks through the streets‚ winking at freaks‚ with a 2-liter stuck in his butt-cheeks . What is a Juggalo? He just don’t care
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During his imprisonment‚ Bakhtin began suffering health problems caused by chronic osteomyelitis‚ a painful inflammation of the bone marrow‚ and while his exile to the frozen isolation of Kazakhstan was no doubt severe‚ it undoubtedly saved him from a certain death in prison. During exile‚ Bakhtin was prevented from teaching and instead supported himself as a bookkeeper. In 1936‚ he was released from exile and taught for a time in Saransk until renewed purges led him to resign and move to a small
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is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west‚ Gujarat and the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the northwest‚ Madhya Pradesh to the north and northeast‚ Chhattisgarh to the east‚ Karnataka to the south‚ Andhra Pradesh to the southeast and Goa to the southwest. The state covers an area of 307‚731 km2 (118‚816 sq mi) or 9.84% of the total geographical area of India. Mumbai‚ the capital city of the state‚ is India’s largest city and the financial capital of the nation. Maharashtra is the world’s second
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bonded in friendship during their years of carefree bachelorhood and how they evolve into mature individuals as time passes‚ to come out stronger within the bonds of friendship in adulthood than they had been in youth. The two scenes in Goa reflect the coming of age of all the three main protagonists. One comes almost at the beginning of the movie. It shows the three men perched on the wrecked remains of a fort overlooking the ocean. It is a poignant scene that depicts the intensity of
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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
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