Homework 1: The Cask of Amontillado 1. 1st person 2. Montresor told the setting and introduced his conflict with Fortunato 3. At night, during the carnival season in Venice, Italy 4. Montresor 5. Fortunato 6. Fortunato has wronged Montresor and Montresor wanted his revenge 7. Montresor and Fortunato are descending into the catacombs; Montresor locks up Fortunato in the furthest recesses of the catacombs and begins blocking him in by erecting a wall 8. In the catacombs of Montresor’s palazzo 9. Long, dark passages 10. Niter growing on the walls 11. Skeletons and piles of bones 12. The jingling of the bells on Fortunato's cap 13. Montresor has one final block to complete the wall when Fortunato begins to laugh and act like it is all a joke. Montresor hesitates for a moment, but then Fortunato passes out and does not answer. 14. Montresor finishes by placing the final block in the wall and returning the pile of bones to cover the newly built wall. 15. Montresor states that it's been 50 years since that time while he remains undetected and closes with "In pace requiescat!" ("May he rest in peace!") 16. Suspenseful, dark, ominous 17. Fortunato was publicly humiliating Montresor. It was out of revenge for the humiliation. 18. The irony about Fortunato's name is that the name could mean fortunate one, but Fortunato is no where near close to fortunate when his fate is death. 19. Hyperbole 20. His weakness is his pride and conceit in his opinion of himself as a better judge of wines. 21. Because Fortunato is a problem drinker, so there there is no question that he will go down to the catacombs where there is alcohol. 22. Even though his cough is getting worse, he knows that his reward for the long journey to the catacombs will be alcohol, which he craves the most. 23. The mason's coat of arms. 24. He gave Fortunato more wine 25. Fortunato didn't resist because he is clearly an alcoholic. 26. Montresor killed Fortunato by chaining him to a wall, the building a wall over the entrance to the room where Fortunato will die a slow death.