Cask of Amontillado

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Do you think the subject of life and death is an interesting topic to speak of? Well I do, and in the past month or so I have read a few short stories where the theme was life and death. All of these stories have many differences and are not at all the same besides for the fact that a person dies in each. In the short stories “Cask of Amontillado”, “Before the End of Summer”, “The Gift of Magi”, and “The Most Dangerous Game”, the common theme throughout is life and death, although that is sthe common theme, the four stories are all based around different topics and based in different settings. “The Cask of Amontillado” was based in the 1800s in Europe. Fortunado, and Amontillado were the two main characters. Fortunado was the one who ended up dying or being killed at the end of the story. Suprisingly Amontillado was the one who ended up killing him too, Amontillado killed him by being very sneaky and sly, and getting Fortunado to trust Amontillado with his life. This costed him at the end. “Before the End of Summer” relates too the theme of life and death because Grannie, finds out from a doctor that she has a certain ammount of time to live, sadly enough her Grandson Bennie ended up finding out even though she didn't want anyone to know about it. Bennies reaction to this news is too run away from reality, he was shocked and scared, as anyone would be if they found out someone so close to them had a certain ammount of time to live. Grannie soons finds out that Bennie knows about what is expected to happen to her and tells him too keep it too himself. Imagine how hard that would be, trying to not tell the rest of the family that your grandmother would have only so long too live, that would kill me. Anyways, in the end Grannie does end up dying, this short story was by far the most interesting one that I read. Quinama 2 The third book that we read was “The Gift
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