1. The protagonist of “King of the Bingo Game” is in a difficult situation and has suffered misfortunes beforehand. A lot of the protagonist turmoil is over his sick wife and the doctor they cannot afford. This prompts him to try his luck in bingo to escape his misfortunes; however, he does not achieve this and goes into a downward spiral. He desperately seeks control over his life and attempts to achieve that through controlling the bingo wheel which does work for a while but in the end that control is taken away from.
2. Twyla in “Recitatif” is a round character because she has multiple facets to her personality. Twyla’s emotions and the thoughts she thinks have depth and meaning behind them. An example of a flat character is Montresor in “The Cask of Amontillado”. While Montresor can be described as insane, he does not have any emotional depth or complexity of a…show more content… In “The Birth-Mark”, Georgina’s birthmark is often represented as something else using signals such as like or as using a smile such as this one “the crimson hand was brought strongly out, like a bass-relief of ruby on the whitest marble” (341). The bazaar in “Araby” is used as a symbol representing loss of hope. The unnamed boy had high hopes that he would find the perfect gift for his lover but left with nothing. The character Fortunato in “The Cask of Amontillado” is ironically named “the fortunate one” in Italian yet misfortune does come upon in the form of murder.
9. A theme in “The Cask of Amontillado” is death and mortality. There are many mentions of bones, crypts, and death related scenery as can be seen here: “Its walls had been lined with human remains . . . in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris” (182). In “The Things They Carried”, the literal and figurative things carried represent the physical and emotional burdens that the people must take with them. Throughout the short story, the burdens upon people show up as emotional scars and the supplies they are forced to take with
