The Cask of Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado was a story, about how two men, went looking for Amontillado's crypt. A dead man. The author made it seem like you were in the underground with them. He used very descriptive words and explained what was happening very well. The mood of the story was kind of spooky and exciting. It was spooky because of all of the dead bodies that were surrounding the two characters as they were walking, and it was exciting because they were looking for a crypt that no one else has ever found. Some good techniques the author used was using good punctuation. For example, "You? Impossible! A mason?" The exclamation points in this dialogue helped me read it how it was meant to be said. If there was none, than the effect of the sentence wouldn't be that effective. The setting is developed around the underground and how all the dead bodies were surrounding them for about the whole time they were under there. The author conveyed evil into this story very well, because he used death. Death isn't evil, but it was the way he exclaimed it and made it sound very eerie that some people might automatically assume it is evil. It wasn't the two main characters that represented evil. I think it was Amontillado at the end that did, when he woke up from his crypt when he was supposed to be dead. Some factors that might of contributed to the characters behavior was the alcohol. Because when Fortunado threw the bottle upwards toward the roof of the bodies. The patterns in society that could've contributed to the behaviors of the characters, were the story and longing of finding Amontillado's crypt. Which no one has ever done before. The evil, darkness was conveyed in the story by mostly the setting. The setting impacted me the most, because of all of the dead bodies that were buried in the middle of a carnival. You'd think they'd be in a cemetery. It was also the setting because the whole time they were underground, there was dead peoples bones hanging out of the walls, and the roof.