Cask Of Amontillado

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“The Cask Of Amontillado” In this short story “The Cask Of Amontillado” I think that there is a lesson and that lesson is be careful who you trust and don’t let what you love kill you. Edgar Allan Poe shows that what you love can kill you and the people you know and may trust my not be the ones that you should trust after all. I had a very strong feel a Poe’s story I liked that Amontillado did not take any insult and was very smart about the “perfect murder”. Amontillado planned out everything it was planed to the point he knew where he was going to put him, he knew how he was going to do it, he covered up his tracks very well, and he knew when he was going to do it during the Carnival time so no one gets any ideas. …show more content…

I could picture the cellar the whole time and I can see the two as amontillado leads him deeper and deeper into the cellar. I had such a creepy feel going on I could see the wine bottles with dust and webs on them and I could picture the damp touch lit rooms. At the end of the story I felt so evil the setting it gives is so evil. The evil feel is when the last brick is put up and he understands that it is not a joke and that he was already dead as Amontillado walks away and you can hear the bells of his hat as he looks down in

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