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THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
- the main character didn´t know where he was. He opened his eyes and saw nothing, he saw everything dark. I was in a cell where there was a well right in the center.
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THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
-He saw a bearded man on the ceiling, the man had an hourglass and a blade like a pendulum
However, the pendulum fell on him, he got scared. He had a rope on his body, so he put meat for the rats to eat and to escape. -
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
- Finally, he was about to fall but someone grabbed his arm. That person was a soldier in the French army. French soldiers captured the city of Toledo.
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THE GOLD DUG
-William Legrand was left broke and he moved to Sullivan’s Island.
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THE GOLD BUG
- Legrand told the main character to go with him to the forest He didn't tell him why they were going to the forest .They found a skull, Legrand told Jupiter to put the gold bug in the eye and the skull fell to the ground.
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THE GOLD BUG
- When the skull fell , they started digging. They saw that something was shining, it was a treasure. They opened it and it was full of gold. From that day on they were rich.
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THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR VALDEMAR
- Hypnoticism and death. The main character is hypnotist and scientist, he wants to know if he can resurrect people.
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THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR VALDEMAR
-The death of Mr. Valdemar, after being hypnotized and killed in peace.Valdemar asks the hypnotist to put him to sleep because he is dying and he doesn't want to live anymore. -
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OS MR VALDEMAR
. Mr. Valdemar couldn´t be resurrected and his body was left in a corpse of bones that released a yellow liquid with a very strong odor. -
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
- Usher, the old friend of the main character, he sent a letter to the main character. In the letter he said that he was sick and he went to visit him. He went home alone and he saw him pale in bed and very sick with her sister Madeline who was also sick.
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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
- Madeline died because she was sick. Usher did not want to bury her near a church and they went to a room. There was no one there and they buried her there in a coffin . Usher said he would never enter that room again.
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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
A very rainy night, Usher went to the main character's room. Usher told him that he was hearing noises in the house and Usher told him that he could hear everything and he listened as Madeline came out of the coffin.
Usher told the main character that Madeline was after him, all the lights went out. Madeline appeared in the room with the dress full of blood and she went for Usher. They fell to the ground and died, the main character left the house -
DOWN INTO THE MAELSTROM
The maelstrom is impressive in the shape of a hole, it screams much louder than Niagara Falls. The narrator quotes from other accounts that find that his supposed power to destroy ships and ocean life is hardly credible. -
DOWN INTO THE MAELSTROM
The main character and his two brothers practiced fishing near the whirlpool. One day they were caught in a hurricane, his brother drowned, left his barcode defenseless and propelled him into the maelstrom -
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
Approximately five or six months after your stay. Prospero you decide to have a spectacular masquerade ball where everyone would wear a mask. The setting is strange and wild -
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
A terrible disease called red death has affected the country. It is incredibly fatal since it has killed half the kingdom. Prince Prosper does not seem to care about his poor subjects. -
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
Anyway, the party is in full swing and everyone is having a hard time when the clock strikes midnight . Everyone stops dancing and is momentarily silent, as always . Then some of the dancers notice a guest that no one has ever seen before , in a scandalous costume -
THE OBLONG BOX
The unnamed narrator recounts a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina, to New York City aboard the ship Independence. The narrator learns that his old college friend is on board with his wife and two sisters, although he has reserved three cabins -
THE OBLONG BOX
The narrator is shocked to discover it, sharing the cabin with Wyatt and his wife, while the two sisters share the second room. For some nights, the narrator witnesses her friend's wife leave the cabin every night around 11 o'clock and head to the third cabin before returning early in the morning. -
THE OBLONG BOX
The narrator meets the captain. Hardy explains that the box had the body of Wyatt's deceased wife. He intended to return the body to his mother, but a corpse on board would have caused panic among the passengers.
