Peer-editing for Poe Essay Literature & Language Coursework

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The narrator opens up the story by detailing his sentencing. Well, the robbed judges sentence the narrator to death and in the first section or portion of the story, the narrator talks about his reaction. It never seemed plausible that he would receive such a sentence but slowly, the figures of the judges disappear, the candles turn into nothingness and their flames go out, darkness prevails, and all the narrator’s sensations appear to have departed. The narrator is overcome by shock and fails to realize that he is being taken to the dungeons in Toledo. He wakes up with no understanding of where he was and no recollection of how he got there.
Life in the dungeon is overwhelmed by the darkness in the prison. The narrator explains how he tries to find his bearing and even goes ahead to measure the prison. Unknowingly to him, the dungeon is quite strange and one could easily die something which he learns when he falls and escapes a bottomless pit. While in the dungeon, the narrator is not aware or conscious of time. He sleeps and wakes up to find bread and water near him. However, the water is drugged and the narrator falls into a deep sleep and wakes up to find the room lit and also notices a huge pendulum which slowly descends upon him.
The narrator is now helpless and every day, he watches as the pendulum draws closer. The waiting is the worst part because he knows exact...