Montresor Diary Entry

Detective’s Journal

It was dark out no sunlight came out of the sky above it was playing hide and seek and it

didn’t want to be found. Everything around me was quiet, no crickets sounded the streets, it was a

ghost town. It was the carnival season everyone came together to have some fun, some dressed

up and disguised themselves. As I started to approach the carnival the noise began to rise. I have

decided to come to the carnival to make sure everyone was having a good time and no violence

was brought. I was dressed in all black with a silver mask. As I was walking around I saw a man

wearing a mask made of black silk approach a man dressed in a

multicoloured costume like a

jester, with a cone hat and bells. They started having a conversation and as they did, I asked

around to find out more about them because I found the guy in the black mask made of silk to be

quite suspicious.

As I asked questions I found out that the guy in the black mask was named

Montresor and the guy with a cone hat with bells was named Fortunato. Fortunato is very devoted

to wine and loves everything about it. I also discovered that Montresor has underground vaults.

Montresor was a mysterious man, you never knew what he was going to do. I did not differ from

Montresor I too was very independent and did not share my thoughts with others (Parallelism),

however he was acting more and more mysterious as the night grew (Personification). Later that

evening I saw Montresor and Fortunato heading down to the vaults as if they were on a mission to

find something. As the time passed, they were nowhere in sight. I grew anxious, could something

have gone horribly wrong? I thought to myself.

A little while passed and I saw Montresor coming out from the vaults alone, Fortunato was

nowhere to be seen. I decided to go down to the vaults myself and see if Fortunato was okay. As I

made it down to the damp vaults covered in nitre, I saw corpses around me which I thought

must

be Montresor's family.(Imagery) I kept on walking until I reached what seemed to be a crypt, with

freshly made walls. Something didn’t seem right, so I ended up breaking the wall and what I saw

beyond those walls was something truly terrifying. Before my eyes I saw a dead body of

Fortunato. All chained up, with his multicoloured costume and a hat with bell, he was white as a

ghost(Simile) and he reeked of alcohol. I tried finding more evidence as to how he died that night

but had no luck. And still to this day I think about how he died, and what the motive was. However

my questions are still unanswered.