The Cask Of Amontillado Analysis

A few months back, I viewed a YouTube video on my brother proposing after skydiving from another person’s face camera. I could only watch and see how unique the video was. However in the video, I was the person that was pushed out of a plane just before my brother. I jumped out of the plane with all of my nervousness and adrenaline built up from a shaky plane ride up into 13,500 feet into the clear blue sky. After being pushed out, I am not able to scream or yell due to the extreme air pressure forcing back into my face while I was falling down into an earth that seemed zoomed out, similar to a Google Earth image. The fall is nothing like a rollercoaster, but a feeling that is rather natural and free. One might think they can imagine

In the Cask of Amontillado, Montresor tells the story in a first person point of view about the way he seeks revenge on Fortunato. Montresor is considered an evil murderer. In comparison, An Occurrence at Owl Creek is mainly told in a third person point of view in which the narrator seems to be viewing Peyton Farquhar being hung by the Union Soldiers. Bierce was in the Union army during the Civil War. This could be possible that Bierce possibly is writing about a personal experience he sees while he is in the army. The contrast to Poe's work is that instead of being the murderer telling the story, Bierce writes about witnessing a murder and the culprit's last thoughts when death is presented. The narrator uses the words “he” and “him” to show third person context. Following this further, the narrator is also omniscient, meaning he knows all feelings and awareness about Peyton. Peyton supposedly has a flash-forward in which he imagines escaping from the noose, and running back home to see his wife. He shows emotion towards his wife by saying, "Ah, how beautiful she is!"(557). Without the narrator knowing, there wouldn’t have been a way for Peyton to tell his flash-forward because he died in the act of the fantasy. In both short stories, death is shown after events seem to go well with the protagonist. For Fortunato, he is "walled up in the entrance of the niche" (169). He is trapped alive