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Statement Of Purpose For The Cask Of Amontillado

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Statement of purpose I wrote my pastiche on the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Edgar Allan Poe. I tried the recreate the same tone, mood, irony and foreshadowing. In my original piece, I tried to express a dark and gloomy tone most common in Poe’s works like “The Cask of Amontillado”. I set the mood in my story by having it take place in the dark spooky woods, where most people think if you get lost no one will find you. I used irony by Having my two main characters, toast to a long life just like they do in the original story. I also used irony in my own work by warning the antagonist, not to fall asleep when hunting bears or they can sneak up behind you and kill you. By saying this, I foreshadowed to the audience that something
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