Part one of term paper
In many great literary works, an inanimate object can be as important and sometimes more important than the characters to an author when making his point. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” the cask of amontillado is as, if not more important than Fortunato and Montressor (the main characters) in the development of the st ...

Part two of term paper
... street, sightseeing when they see the red Oldsmobile convertible. Lyman (the story is told from his point of view) almost makes the car a living thing when he says, “There it was, parked, large as life. Really as if it were alive.” They used all of the money they had, less the gas to get home, to buy the car. The car’s main significance in the story is the bond that it creates between the brothers. When reading the story, one is led to believe that these two brothers have very little in ...