Thursday, January 31, 2013

the stupid grandma and the yellow wallpaper freak

           So these two stories are about crazy people. The first story was about a family  who was going on a road trip to florida and their stupid, annoying grandma came along with them. She ended up persuading the family to go to this one house that supposedly had a secret passageway in it. She obviously made that up. She's so stupid that she forgot that the house was in a different state. Oh, and while all this was going on, there was a misfit on the loose. The stupid grandma aslo hid her cat in the car because she wanted to take the cat with her on vacation. Well, this cat freaks out and jumps onto the father of the family, who is the son of the grandma, and causes an accident. The car flips over but everyone was okay. Then guess who came along down the road? Yupp, the misfit. He ends up killing the entire family, including the grandma. They all died because the stupid grandma wanted to go to a house that was in a different state!
            The second story was about a woman who is locked up in a room because she is "sick." She just had a baby, so I think she is suffering from postpartum depression. She wasn't allowed near the baby, and her husband was having an affair. I don't really know that for sure, but I think he was. That's why he had her looked up in a room. Well, this woman has an obsession with the wallpaper in the room. At first she hates it, but then for some reason she becomes kind of fond of it. She says she sees a woman on one side and bars on the other. I think she was just seeing herself being locked up in the room. The ending really confused me. It was also really creepy. It reminded me of those scary movies where people get posessed. She did something with a rope that she had. I don't know where she got it from,but when her husband opened the door, he fainted. She said she had to "creep" over him every time. That's the part that reminds me of the scary movie. Maybe she killed her husband. I don't know. This story was just really weird.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

The Cask of Amontillado is about two guys, Fortunato and Montresor. Montresor says that Fortunato insulted him but he doesn't say how. He says he will get his revenge, and he does. During a carnival, Montresor sees Fortunato and takes advantage of the fact that Fortunato is a little drunk (he likes his wine). Montresor tells him he has a some type of wine and he wants Fortunato to give him his opinion of it. Montresor takes him to his house  and down to the wine cellars and Fortuanto offers him wine, so he gets even more drunk. He also has a cough and its getting worse because of the mold thats down there. Then they go into the catacombs and eventually they reach a dead end and Montresor chains him up and builds a wall to trap him in there. Fortunato screams and shakes the chains and thinks it's all a joke. Montresor leaves him there to die. I have always thought that Poe was a pyscho because he always wrote about crazy things like killing people and stuff. Maybe he did some of the stuff he wrote about and was never caught for it.