Kevin Graetz

 

 

11/13/’12.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Moment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The two symbols I’m choosing for the Pit and the Pendulum are the ``Rats’’ and the ``pit’’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In the Pit and the Pendulum the rats create a scary situation by swarming all over the prisoner,and the pit

symbolizes hell. The rats start to eat the prisoner when he is trying to escape. This scene creates scary

sitiuations,and continues to do so through out the story.The prisoner is trapped in the dungeon,if he

doesn’t escape,then he will die. The pendulum can slice the prisoner at any moment,so he must escape.

The prisoner didn’t remembered how he arrived at the dungeon at all,I think he should try to remember

how he got in. The ``circular pit’’ was filled with doom,if I were him I would have atleast tried to escape. If

the prisoner doesn’t escape,he will soon die by the swinging pendulum.

 

 

 

 

 

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The narrator falls into a circular pit, and arrives in some sort of iron-burning dungeon. He is

confused,because he was in Toledo. Every time he sleeps and wakes up,he is in somewhere

different,must be a nightmare. The prisoner is now tied to some sort of wooden bed by ropes. The rats are

attracted to the prisoner but they actually help him try to escape by chewing the ropes. Hopefully the

prisoner escapes with the help of the rats in time,before the pendulum slices him in half. When the

prisoner escapes,or if he escapes how will he leave the dungeon.Hopefully the rats will chew all the ropes

in time to set the prisoner free.

 

 

 

 

 

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The rats kept crawling out of the pit,this was when he didn’t realize they would help him,instead he thought

he was their prey. As the prisoner is stuck on the wooden bed,invaded by rats,he witnesses a huge figure

holding some sort of scythe-like pendulum. Is this figure alive or some sort of statue,it was clear to the prisoner

that it was not alive so he feared it less but was still scared. The rats had demonic-red eyes and were haunting

the prisoner until they chewed the ropes tied to him. the prisoner has to escape from the bed so he doesnt wait

to die. Every second count's in the prisoner's sitiuation,his only chance to survive is with helping the rats destroy the ropes. The prisoner think he is about to die because the swinging pendulum is close to his body. It is going to be very difficult to get out of the dungeon if he escapes the wooden bed with all the ropes tied to it.

 

 

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When the prisoner escaped he thought all was well,until the horror came back and was back in the cell.The scythe is about to hit the prisoner,but when he thinks he is about to die he escapes with the help of the rats.Hopefully the narrator find a way out of the pit.If the narrator doesnt find a way out he will be trapped forever? Suddenly,when the ex-prisoner is relieved that he escaped the swinging pendulum that almost killed him, he starts halucinating. Why is the ex-prisoner halucinating? what caused him to do this. The ex-prisoner starts falling asleep,and escapes the dungeon and pit. He is then suddenly back in Toledo,and has no idea how he got there,or escaped!

 

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I think this whole story was just a vision of "hell" to the prisoner or it was some sort of dream.He must have gotten hit by something to get this "vision" or "dream",