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  2. The Cask of Amontillado - Wikipedia

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    Montresor even imparts this blame to Fortunato when he states, "You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was". This interchanging of fortunes is a suggestion that, since the names Montresor and Fortunato mirror one another, there is a psychological reciprocal identification between victim and executioner. [ 8 ]

  3. Every Edgar Allan Poe reference in ‘Fall of the House of Usher'

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    The narrator in Poe’s story attempts to kill the look-alike, but ends up murdering his wife with an axe when she gets in the way instead. He then hides her body in the damp walls of his home.

  4. Talk:The Cask of Amontillado - Wikipedia

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    I am adding a character section to the article : Montresor- The narrator of the story who has laid out a plan to kill Fortunato for the amount of pain he has caused Montresor for a long period of time. Comes from a wealthy respected family and has pride in his family name. Fortunato- A wine lover who has been causing harm to the narrator.

  5. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    The narrator is still distinct from the author and must behave like any other character and any other first-person narrator. Examples of this kind of narrator include Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in Timequake (in this case, the first-person narrator is also the author). In some cases, the narrator is writing a ...

  6. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    The literary device of stories within a story dates back to a device known as a "frame story", where a supplemental story is used to help tell the main story.Typically, the outer story or "frame" does not have much matter, and most of the work consists of one or more complete stories told by one or more storytellers.

  7. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Wikipedia

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    The story appeared as "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case" in The American Review, December, 1845, Wiley and Putnam, New York.. While editor of The Broadway Journal, Poe printed a letter from a New York physician named Dr. A. Sidney Doane that recounted a surgical operation performed while a patient was "in a magnetic sleep"; the letter served as inspiration for Poe's tale. [1] "

  8. List of Saturday TV Funhouse segments - Wikipedia

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    Scar (voiced by Chris Parnell) from The Lion King appears as the Disney Lawyer who condemns the children to the Disney Vault for knowing too much. Though he does allow them to see "The Lion King 5 2/3: Simba Sits in for Meredith." Jeff Bottoms provided the trailer narration. 91 May 20, 2006 Kevin Spacey and Nelly Furtado episode Fun with Real Audio

  9. The Thief Lord - Wikipedia

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    The next day, Prosper, Scipio, and Barbarossa meet up with the gang again. They do not recognize Scipio or Barbarossa and Prosper cannot explain. With Victor and Ida's help, Barbarossa is adopted by Prosper and Boniface's rich aunt Esther. Prosper and Boniface decide to live with Ida and go to school, along with Hornet.