“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge (The Cask of Amontillado).” Montresor desires revenge and decides to take action with his own hands. “I continued as was my won 't, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOW was at the thought of his immolation (The Cask of Amontillado).” Around dusk, during the carnival season madness; Montresor encountered his friend, Fortunato, alone and drunk, which allowed Montresor his chance for revenge. At length, we arrived at the entry way to the Catacombs, standing together on the damp ground. Continuing onward, they stumbled through the dark catacombs; suddenly Fortunato chained inside a cavern, realizes what …show more content…
“The only question left unanswered was; ‘How did Fortunato’s body wind up in a dig site in the countryside? As one of the victims of the feud, there are only two people who know the answer to this question; considering, the story was passed down through the generations. The answer is quite simple; ‘Of course, Fortunato did not escape the catacombs, yet he was gracefully buried because a little girl cared for the awful corpse.” Thanks to that little girl and her brother, Fortunato’s life lasted longer than Montresor ever dreamed; eventually, she vowed, they would get revenge. Until that day comes, she stayed by her brother’s side to protect their great-grandfather’s corpse while always writing in their journals to pass down to the next generation. "You must be somewhat curious as to how I know all this about something long forgotten. Well, the answer to that curiosity is very simple; it’s because I’m the granddaughter of the little girl that kept the skeleton preserved and buried the corpse." Before our mother left my brother and me at this orphanage, she gave us a secret message within the journals; "You must keep a journal to find one another later in life and to learn the truth of the tragic incident with your great-grandfathers’.” Later on, we found the journal of our parents, which explained everything about the feud, who we really are and how to stop this miserable