Ryan Green- Blog 2

"Cask of Amontillado"- Poe

This was a quite interesting piece in many ways. The narrator grabs your attention throughout the whole reading because it is about his revenge on one of his friends. The narrator wanted his friend dead, but he knew that he couldnt just kill him out of the blue. He had to be stealthy about it, or he could be killed himself. He knew his "friend" loved to drink. So he got him absolutely hammered. Drunk enough for the man to walk into his own death trap. Montresor, the narrator, takes him down into the catacombs of Italy. He then got him into a corner and built a wall up, so he could never escape. It sounds like a miserable death. What could have made him so mad to kill his friend this way? Either way it happened. What is done is done.

What also is interesting is that we noted in class that the piece was written fifty years after the event happened. Why would he bring up the murder fifty years later? Im guessing that over the years it has been killing him inside. He could'nt live his life knowing that he has not only killed someone, but killed one of his friends. The class came to a conclusion that the writing was a sort of admittance to the act he did. The narrator could no longer keep it a secret.

It is impressive how the text is so descriptive. It seemed like what was written happened to the narrator not to long ago. However, it happened fifty years ago. Clearly he could not live his life no longer knowing what he has done to that man. Talk about reading in between the lines.