Reflection # 3: "The Cask of Amontillado"

This week was an interesting one. We read two good stories but “The Cask of Amontillado” was more interesting to me. It was a crazy story of a man named Montresor who is planning to take revenge of his friend Fortunato. What did Fortunato to make Montresor angry and full of revenge? The author doesn’t give a clear explanation and description about what Fortunato did.

The way that Montresor planned the revenge was very crude. He planned it step by step. He knew that nobody will notice that because everybody was at the carnival and he knew that his friend Fortunato, the victim, was going to be drunk so Fortunato would not be able to notice Montresor’s perverse plan. Another interesting thing in this story was Montresor’s family symbol. Yeah, the foot crushing a serpent. That give us an idea of whom and how was his family. They all were sick peoples, sick of hate and revenge and Montresor inherited his family’s characteristic. And also the motto “No one wounds me with impunity” gives us a clue of the outcome of the story. Montresor started to make the wall to lock his friend and Fortunato though it was a joke. Of course if my friend tries to lock me in a crypt I would think it is a joke. After all Montresor locked Fortunato on a crypt and eventually he dies. It’s crazy to thing that a man is trying to do that to his friend. Montresor is a sick man. He is crazy and a very vindictive man. The story was very interesting and full of horror and suspense and I really liked it.