"The Pit and the Pendulum" Opinion

Well, as other Poe's stories I've read before, I loved this story a lot. At first, when the narrator was in his darkened dungeon, I was a little confused because he stared describing the walls in his cell, suddenly he started measuring them, then he was talking about the noises he was hearing and, whenhe fell down, he described what he could feel from the pit. The part I liked the most was when he was a about to be split in half by the pendulum, sincerely I thought he was not going to escape because the pendulum was so close to his body that any mistaken movement would finish him forever, personally I feared the most everytime he said he raised his head because I thought the the pendulum was coming towards his head and it would slice his skull. The final part where he is about to be crushed by the walls and he has no other option than throwing himself into the pit was, as I had mentioned before, a desperate attempt form his tortures to finish him at once. Generally speaking, it is a great story, with an excellent narrative, which is characteristic in Poe's works. I really enjoyed this story because there are parts of the story where you feel you're in the dungeon with the narrator, especially when he describes his despair and fear towards the pendulum.

Playlistz

Campus-Vampire Weekend
La Noche de la Barracuda-Fenómeno Fuzz
Jezebel(bt mix)-Noisuf X
Starfire-DRagonforce
A Dead Song-Lydia Lunch & The Bithday Party
Rock & Roll-Los Implantes

"No Witchcraft for Sale" Opinion

Well, first of all I did not like this story because it seems to me like a racist story, for real, one evidence of that is the way Teddy treated all black people, with Gideon as an excpetion. Another element of racism is the way the scientist tried to force Gideon to tell him about this "magical plant", because even if black people were slaves or servants, there's no way to get an answer if one tries to force someone to tell him the answer. I didn't understand the part of the story where tha snake spits its vemon towards Teddy because for what I know, that vemon blinds people immediately so it was almost impossible that he could get his eyes healed, besides, there passed lots of time since the snake spit Teddy until Gideon came back from God knows where with the root, maybe it was a fictional element the author included so that the story wasn't so short, who knows. For concluding, I didn't enjoy reading this one story the way I've enjoyed other stories.

Playlist

Us-Regina Spektor
Jump Rope-Bad Acid Trip
Apple of Sodom-Marilyn Manson & Rasputina