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Argumentative Essay: The Tooth Fairy

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Intentionally misleading a person can result in different outcomes, a negative or a positive, depending on the situation and how a person reacts to it. A time I was misled was when I was growing up and was told about the Tooth Fairy, I was told about the popular myth and was intentionally misled into believing that it was true. Most kids are told about many of these myths when they are young. In fact, almost all of my friends grew up convinced that the Tooth Fairy was real. In primary school, when a classmate lost their tooth, the adult in charge would also play a big role in keeping the toddlers’ faith solid on the belief of the myth. At home, my older brothers would get shushed by my parents when the topic was brought up by me. And when I lost a tooth, I would always wake up in the morning with a …show more content…

Montresor is aware that Fortunado cannot resist his obsession for amontillado so he uses the wine to lure him into his trick while he is intoxicated. “I encountered my friend…for he had been drinking much… ‘My dear Fortunado…I have received a pipe of what passes or Amontillado.’ ‘Amontillado! … Let us go!’” (62, 63). Montresor is clever and uses tricks to mislead and trick Fortunado in his weak state. I would compare this story to my personal experience. In this scenario I would say that I resemble Fortunado because of the way we both had an incident where we were misled. As for Montresor, I could compare him to those who contributed to my belief of the myth. However, Fortunado was misled in a negative way that resulted in a bad outcome whereas my outcome definitely did not affect me in the way it did for him, because he was misled which ultimately resulted in his

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Montresor tortures Fortunato, both physiologically and physically. Montresor clearly gives Fortunato “multiple chances to escape his fate” (Delany 34), as he gives Fortunato obvious clues to his true intensions. These include leading Fortunato into a place for the dead, telling Fortunato not to go due to his severe cough that made it “impossible to reply” (Poe 5) at times, reminding Fortunato of his family arms, mentioning Luchesi, and showing Fortunato a trowel. Montresor seems to receive morbid joy out of the fact that Fortunato is so intoxicated that, just like the foot on Montresor’s coat of arms, he is unintentionally “stepping into his own destruction” (Cervo

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Montresor asks Fortunato to use his expert wine test tasting skills to tell if a bottle of wine is authentic or not. Since Fortunato is an arrogant person, he does not suspect or have any suspicion to his ‘friends’ request. Once Montresor and Fortunato make their way down deep into the catacombs, Montresor tricks Fortunato into a corner. Then, Montresor handcuffs Fortunato to the wall. Fortunato is fasten to the wall with no escape.

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In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe displays the theme of revenge and manipulation. The narrator Montresor pledges revenge on Fortunato for an insult that is never explained. He maintains an appearance of goodwill towards Fortunato and decides to make use of Fortunato's weakness for fine wines against him. During the carnival season, the narrator approaches Fortunato, telling him that he has come across something that could pass for Amontillado a rare and expensive wine. Fortunato being excited about the news insists on accompanying Montresor to the vaults to determine whether it is Amontillado or not.

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In the Cask of Amontillado, it’s not a physical game, it is merely a mental game. At the start of the book, Montresor lies to Fortunato about the Amontillado alcohol being deep in the catacombs so he can put his plan into place,this is where the “game” starts. Once they got to the catacombs, Fortunato was ill and kept coughing due to the niter deep. Here was an opportunity for Montresor to gain his trust. He asked several times

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The narrator explains that Fortunato prides himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Later in the story the narrator asks Fortunato to come over to his house to taste the Amontillado that he has recently purchased. The narrator states, “ He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack- but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. ”(2)

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of what passes for Amontillado”(Poe 3). At this point he already began the manipulation. Now most likely if it was someone else to tell or even guide fortunado to a far off place he would disagree, but as him and montresor are friends he went the distance for amontillado. ”"The Amontillado!" ejaculated my friend”(Poe 7). The next two understandings were put in effect to end the young connoisseurs life as since he 's gone nobody would go searching for him as he is the top competition.

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Montresor then starts to easily manipulate Fortunato. Montresor uses Fortunato’s vanity against him to get what he wants. Fortunato thinks that Montresor has nothing against him and just wants him to taste wine. Fortunato goes with Montresor, and in doing this Fortunato becomes complicit in his own demise by insisting on sampling the amontillado. This allows Montresor to take control and lure Fortunato to the vaults, where Montresor becomes murderous.

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Like when they were going to the catacomb, Fortunato didn’t believe that Montresor was a “Mason” and when Montresor said that was Amontillado he gave Fortunato to drink. Fortunato deny that it was and said to him it tasted like Sherry. Montresor wanted

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At the carnival he informs Fortunato that he has a pipe of Amontillado, and he has his doubts. Then, using reverse psychology, he says he can see that Fortunato is engaged in something, and he will turn to Luchresi for connoisseur services. This makes Fortunato’s desire to taste the wine even deeper. Fortunato refuses and insists he taste the wine, completing step one in Montresor’s master plan. Then Montresor manipulates him a second time, says it’s not the engagement, but the severe cold Fortunato has.

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