The Count of Monte Cristo

“He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy.” (pg. 31)

Edmond was wrongly accused of treason and sent to imprisonment for life. Edmond spends his next 14 years in the disconsolate Chateau d’lf, a prison sitting on an island at which no prisoner has ever escaped. As Edmond has lost all hope and “... God has faded from (his) heart,” he meets a priest, an old man who was sent to Chateau d’lf 11 years before Edmond. The priest is a very knowledgeable man with great persistence and belief in god. Continuously throughout the movie, the priest helps Edmond keep his belief in God and reminds him of why he is trying to escape similar to when King Melchizedek in The Alchemist was reminding Santiago that, “It's your mission on earth." Both of these men required a guardian and another person pushing them on and guiding them in their

Edmond is imprisoned wrongfully and wasts away in prison and when i say waste away i mean it was the medieval ara so it wasn't a good place to be and it was amazing that he didn't die while he was there. Once he was released however he claimed his riches and went to his castle, it is here when he begins planning his revenge on the three men who got him locked up. He made the decision to use their greatest vice or most favorite thing for his revenge so that the impact cuts deep. So if the man was greedy then he would use his greed as part of his revenge.

The locket being stolen was predictable because of its description. The locket was golden and old fashioned which means that it could possibly be an antique. In certain places antiques are more valuable then the modern model. If something is valuable people want it. When people want things they either get jealous or they take it for themselves. That is what happen to Edmond someone wanted it more than him so they took it. Suspects of the theft could of been Edmond's messmates.

“My body, but for your blood, is barren of worth; And tis I have asked for this folly not fit for a King.”

“Now as he spoke the sun set, dusk drew on/ and they retired, this pair, to the inner cave/ to revel and rest softly, side by side” (5. 234-236)

First, in the first scene the soldier jokes with Edmond that his locket protects him. While I was reading this I expected Edmond to be safe because he is protected by the locket. As Edmond said to Nick "I don't know how I could have gone through this year and a half without it." Since Edmond was fighting for the Confederates, it was important for him to carry around a talisman for protection. The locket also symbolizes Octavie’s love protecting Edmond.

Since it is only the dead who go free from here, I must take place of the dead!’” (Dumas 80). Edmond thinks of taking the place of the abbe Faria, which freed him from prison. This further authenticate Edmond being perseverant and patient, showing how he pushes through obstacles presented to him no matter what. One could say that Into Thin Air had no perseverance

To make me die with a restorative” (pg 1045).

“And at once he was ashamed and confused. Sheer fear had made him yield. And he seethed against himself for his involuntary weakness. Well, he’d look over his book and pretend that he’d made a mistake; he’d tell this hunk of blackness that there was really no free room in the hotel, and that he was so sorry…”(352)

“…and that was simply another manifestation of man’s injustice to man, of the poor tragic human being struggling with its own heart, with others, with its environment, for the simple things which all human beings want…” (1416)

Edmond, a dear loved one of Octavie, was assumingly dead. This was a part of “The Locket”, close to the conclusion in fact. A priest found a locket, which was given to Edmond from Octavie, on a dead unidentifiable man that was found on a battlefield. This gave me the allusion that Edmond ha deceased and as the locket was sent back to Octavie with a letter describing what the priest seen and where he found the locket, which convinced the dear girl that the man she loved has died. Octavie was engaged to Edmond and was grieving his death, wearing black, talking to his father Judge Pillier, and rereading the letter that was sent to her. As the ending of the story drew near, small hints, such as Judge Pillier saying “Do you not think that on a day

Edmond believes in the best of people even in pressing situations, for instance when confronted by an unknown threat, two french police officers tell him that he is being arrested, Edmond

I was very surprised with the end to The Locket. In no way did I think that Edmond was still alive. According to the short story Edmond was at war, but he never got seriously injured. So, when I read that he had past, and the locket was returned to Octavie I was shocked. “Made precious as material things sometimes are by being forever identified with a significant moment of one’s existence.” This quote is very sad because Octavie is remembering what she had with Edmond and the fact that she will have to go through life with just memories of their time together, instead of making more memories is upsetting to her.

He helps Edmond discover who truly betrayed him, he also tells Edmond about a treasure that could be his when he got out of jail. When Abbe Faria dies Edmond carefully escapes. He soon finds the treasure that Abbe Faria once spoke of. This gives him a