emmaradcliffe2 http://www.bookstove.com//emmaradcliffe2. New posts by emmaradcliffe2 The Cask of Amontillado http://www.bookstove.com/Thriller/The-Cask-of-Amontillado.127136 The cask means container while the Amontillado is a kind of sherry wine. “The Cask of Amontillado” was conceptualized by Edgar Allan Poe while he was in his service at Castle Island. He became fascinated with the inscriptions of the gravestone on a monument outside the fort that he took it upon himself to know the story behind the inscriptions. The Cask of Amontillado is a story about Montresor's resentment towards his friend, Fortunado. It was said that Fortunado insulted him gravely so, Montresor vowed revenge. He planned a step-by-step way to murder his friend. First, was the invitation. Montresor invited his friend to go with him saying that he had an Amontillado wine at his place. Being a wine expert, Fortunado accepted the invitation. Second, was the conversation.

Montresor and Fortunado talked about things that ran about their lives while walking to Montresor's house. Third, was the intoxication. Montresor intoxicated Fortunado through alcoholic beverage; his plan was to get his friend very drunk. When Fortunado was too drunk to even think clearly, Montresor made him go to the catacomb first, telling Fortunado that the Amontillado was inside. No objections were seen because of Fortunado's trust to his friend. Then, Montresor chained up Fortunado and started to seal the opening of the catacomb. At first; Fortunado thought of it as a joke but as Montresor's deed went on he started to realize what was happening; Montresor was going to bury him alive. He pleaded for his life but Montresor, overcame by his anger took no notice and went on and on until finally, he completely sealed the catacomb as to where poor Fortunado lay chained and death soon to be his best friend.

]]> Tue, 20 May 2008 02:27:57 PST Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows http://www.bookstove.com/Book-Talk/Harry-Potter-and-the-Deathly-Hallows.127134  I, for one was one of those people. It was more than five years ago when I got the first four set of the Harry Potter books for Christmas, I remember how hesitant I was to go on and read the first book, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” seeing that it was thick and barely had pictures in it. Finally gathering up enough courage and reason as I can, I read the first chapter of the said book and instantly found my self “hooked”, it was very magical indeed. Thus, it took me to a new world, both surreal and magnificent enough to make me be obsessed with it. Now, more than five years later, I was no longer that little girl but rather, a very hormonal teenager. Three Days after getting my copy of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, I finally finished it. I had mixed emotions, both happy and sad. I was happy because I finally knew Harry's past and fate. On the other hand, I was sad because of the tough reality that there was no more Harry Potter. Indeed, every wonderful beginning has an end. It left me more than several years of memories---memories that will forever be hoarded in my heart. A lot of people could testify and consent that Harry Potter touched their lives. The said series changed the old boring meaning of “reading” and “books” into something worth being looked forward to. At the back pages of the Bloomsbury Edition of the Harry Potter Series, you could read the children's feedbacks towards the book and all of those who wrote there all said one thing in general: Harry Potter Rocks! That is a stated fact. A phenomena in it's own self. And as many avid readers close down their copies of the final installment of Harry Potter's adventures and as millions of Harry Potter fans line down their bookshops to buy their own copies of J.K. Rowling's marvelous fiction for the very last time, I am writing this work of literature mainly, because I wanted to give you all a piece of my emotions and most importantly a part of my heart. Harry, wherever you are, we will always be thinking of you and in our hearts, you will always be, the-boy-who-lived, the greatest wizard ever created.

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