Discussion #3: Poe: "Cask of the Amontillado" After reading the story, watch this video reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado:" Edgar A. Poe and Vincent Price: The Cask of the Amontillado.

Discuss the experience of hearing and seeing a short story acted and recited by discussing both prompts:

1.Is Vincent Price's interpretation close to what you imagined when you read the story?

2.How does Price convey the sense of the narrator as unreliable, i. e.: either justified in his revenge or simply as a madman?

Who are the antagonists in the story "ali baba and the 40 thieves", and are they're bad guys?

Iwas conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, i felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths." what is meant by the term resolved as it is used in this sentence? a) determined b) questioning c) uneasy d) unsure

What theme is best revealed by this conflict? a.)with cooperation, crews can defeat the gods. b.)dangerous ocean travel claims many lives. c.)rest is required for all who work hard. d.)people must respect the wrath of the gods. read the excerpt from part 1 of the odyssey. now zeus the lord of cloud roused in the north a storm against the ships and driving veils of the squall moved down like night on land and sea. the bows went plunging at the gust; sails cracked and lashed outstrips in the big wind. we saw death in that fury, dropped the yards, unshipped the oars, and pulled for the nearest lee: then two long days and nights we lay offshore.