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Compare how Delia in 'After The War' and the narrator of 'The Pit And The Pendulum' are portrayed.
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Sally Yates 13th February 2002 English Assignment Task: Compare how Delia in 'After The War' and the narrator of 'The Pit And The Pendulum' are portrayed. The two stories that we have studied seem initially, to be very different but when are closely analysed both actually focus on the suffering of their central characters. In 'The Pit And The Pendulum' the narrator is the victim of the Spanish Inquisition whereas in 'After The War' a young girl called Delia is bullied by a grown up. The situation in 'The Pit And The Pendulum' is that a English, fifteen year old girl called Delia is on a French exchange trip and is staying with a French family called the Rameaus. They are living in a remote cottage in rural France for a month. However this eerie cottage is virtually isolated from the rest of the world and therefore Delia feels restless. She...
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