Prepare brief remarks that the narrator might deliver to the inquisitors after he is rescued. Try to capture Poe’s style in the narrator’s...

To write a creative response like this, imagine yourself in the shoes of the narrator, remembering everything he endured at the hands of the inquisitors. Choose a tone that you will be writing from. You could be angry, wanting to express how wrong the inquisitors were to treat you that way. You could be vengeful, pouring out threats against them about how they will be punished for what they have done. You could be triumphant, gleeful, or taunting, declaring how you won at last and how they were not able to fulfill their sick desires in destroying your mind, life, or body. You could be curious, taking advantage of a chance to clarify things about your torture that remained obscure. Whatever tone you choose, stay in that state of mind as you compose your remarks.

As you write your remarks, be sure to work in details from the story to connect what you are saying to what the man endured. Some of the points you would probably mention would be the pitch blackness, the pit in the middle of the room, being drugged, the savory meat given with no water, the frightening pictures on the wall of the torture chamber, the gradual descent of the pendulum, and the rats. 

To make your response sound like the way the character in the story thinks, use long sentences and sophisticated words, and be wordy. Don't write in short, quick sentences. Look back into the story to find good vocabulary words that you can incorporate into your response, but rearrange the wording so that you are not copying anything directly from the story.