1. The Cask of Amontillado
TEACHER ANAYANSI
8th GRADE CRP

2. Background of the Author
American writer, poet and critic.
Famous for his evocative short stories and poems
He gave birth to the modern detective stories.
Some of his famous stories are: “Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque,” “The Murders of the Rue Morgue,” “The Raven,” and “Annabel Lee.”

3. THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
MAIN CHARACTERS:
MONTRESOR
FORTUNATO

4. THEME What can you infer from these lines?:
“But then I learned that he had laughed at my proud name, Montresor, the name of an old and honored family. I promised myself that I would make him pay for this – that I would have my revenge”

5. POSSIBLE THEMES
MYSTERY
REVENGE
MURDER
ANGER
HATE

6. PLOT
The story takes place in a party in where one of the main characters states that his old friend made him suffer several times but that he had suffered quietly.

7. Sequence of events
From what you have read so far, explain the sequence of events of the story. *Write your answers on your notebook.

8. Setting
Based on this passage of the story, what can you infer might be the setting?
“I took down from their places on the Wall two brightly burning lights. I gave one of these to Fortunato and led him to a wide doorway. There we could see the stone steps going down into the darkness.”

9. Setting

10. Personalities Montresor: Calculating person Full of anger Thinker
Fortunato:
Alcoholic
Careless
Naive/ gullible

11. PREDICTIONS
What would be your predictions based on what you have read so far from the story?

12. VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT Proudly Wildly Revenge Trembling Wrong
Cask
Wildly
Trembling
Uncertainly
Brightly
Servants
Hurry
Palace

13. THANKYOU!