blog #11

The pit and the pendulum is a short story about a man being sentenced to death by the Spanish inquisitors. He goes unconscious and describes seeing angels and first and then a firey death experience. He wakes up in a dark cell, which is a dungeon. He finally has the strength to get up and decided to measure the cell wall by ripping part of his clothing. The narrator explains that he falls into a deep sleep again but hit time when he wakes up, there is food for him. He proceeds to measure the cell and falls into a whole infested with rats and skeleton bodies. He goes into a coma again in which he believes he was drugged with the drink he was given. When he wakes up again and he is tied up on a table with only his left hand free. There was a pendulum above him going towards him which was to slice him up for a torturous death. As time is ticking, the reaches the for the dish besides him to rub it all over what is keeping him tied up. He does this in order for the rats to chew him out free. The walls start to get closer and he eventually has no choice but to go down the hole. He was saved and finally free by the French.

The Young King is about a kid who is announced to be the new king in throne because the present king was dying. The weird thing about it is that the present king didn't have any sons and chose to announce his daughter's son as king. The kind admired beauty and art. His daughter's son were poor and in a low class. As the king sent out people to look for him, the future young king was excited. He enjoyed all the colors, fancy clothes, and the gold and gems. His mind changes a lot when he has interesting dreams.
I found out that the king ordered someone to kill his daughter because she had an affair with a man who was in a low class. The boy remained alive which is why the king wanted to announce him king at sixteen years old. The boy realizes he like the life he was living and doesn't want to become king.