NAME: MOONEY’s NOTES
DATE:_________________________________ENGLISH PERIOD:__________________
“Charles”
Laurie, Charles, mom (narrator), dad, teacher
1940’s-1950’s, suburban town
1 st Person POV
(Narrated by Laurie’s mother)
“The Lottery”
“A Retrieved
Reformation”
Mr. Summers, Tessie Hutchinson, the Hutchinson family, families in the farming community, Old Man
Warner
Jimmy Valentine/Ralph Spencer,
Det. Ben Price, Annabel Adams,
Adam’s family members
June 27 th , rural farming community, early 1900’s-present
1900’s, East and Midwest,
Elmore, Arkansas
3 rd Person LIMITED
3 rd Person LIMITED
Narrator, Doodle, Aunt Nicey, mother and father
South, (Mississippi) rural farm, WWI era
1 st Person POV
(Narrated by Doodle’s brother)
“The Scarlet Ibis”
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
The Narrator, the Old Man Late 1800’s, 1 st Person POV
(Narrator)
Montresor & Fortunato 1400’s-1800’s, Carnival,
Venice, Italy
1 st Person POV
(Montresor)
“The Cask of
Amontillado”

“Charles”
“The Lottery”
“A Retrieved
Reformation”
“The Scarlet Ibis”
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Cask of
Amontillado”
Laurie has trouble adjusting to Kindergarten, and through the power of his childish imagination, he creates a boy named Charles to blame all of his bad behavior on. The story is narrated by Laurie's mother, who is disillusioned by her son's behavior until she learns the twisted truth that Laurie is Charles!
- Beware the web you weave with lies.
- Children have very active imaginations.
- Things are not always as they appear to be.
The farming village conducts the lottery on June 27th every year, where all member of the town participate. There are two rounds of drawings to determine the winner, Tessie Hutchinson, who is ultimately sacrificed, stoned to death, in hope of a bountiful crop season.
(THEME: "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon" (9)).
Jimmy Valentine, an infamous safe-cracker, returns to his old habits after leaving jail. When he arrives in Elmore, he falls in love and instantly becomes an honest business man under the identity of Ralph D.
Spencer. As Det. Ben Price hunts down the criminal, he observes
Valentine truly reform into Spencer as he sacrifices his own happiness to save the life of a young girl, and Price rewards the reformed man with his freedom.
Doodle’s brother tells the story in a flashback about his efforts to train his disabled brother to become “normal”. In his efforts, he admits his selfish motives as the training ultimately results in Doodle’s death during an unexpected storm.
The narrator, overcome by his own madness, kills the old man to rid the vulture eye in attempts to cure his own madness. The narrator buries the old man under the floorboards, but ultimately confesses his deeds as the sound of beating heart draws louder, ultimately making the narrator recognize that he cannot be cured of his own madness.
- Not all traditions are good.
- Violence and cruelty can come from seemingly normal people.
- It may be necessary to sacrifice one for the survival of many.
- Love can influence a true reformation.
- People are capable of change.
-Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, both life and death.
- Strength can be found in the most unexpected people.
- Madness upsets the delicate balance of light and dark in human nature.
Injured by the insults of Fortunato, Montresor develops an elaborate plan to punish Fortunato, with impunity. By enticing Fortunato with hopes of tasting the Amontillado, Montresor lures him into the depths of catacombs and encases him in a wall where he will spend eternity.
- To punish with impunity.
- Pride can be a dangerous motive.
- People who are wounded can look for solace in rage and hate.