N "The Pit and the Pendulum," the narrator explains, "I proceeded for many paces; but still all was blackness and vacancy." How does Poe's inclusion of this description affect the story?

Poe's description allows the narrative to be very suspenseful and provide a feeling of discomfort and displacement in the reader. In addition, Poe makes the reader realize how insecure and uncertain the narrator is about where he is located.

Explanation:

"The Pit and the Pendulum," is a short story written by Edgar Alan Poe. This is a suspense story where the narrator / protagonist is arrested by the inquisition and subjected to physical and psychological torture in a totally unknown and insecure environment.

With the line "I proceeded for many paces; but still all was blackness and vacancy," Poe reaffirms how insecure the place is, showing how the narrator is uncertain where he is from, he cannot recognize the place or even know what is inside it. This increases the suspense, the feeling of doubt and the feeling of discomfort to the reader.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

the main character of "the secret life of walter mitty" retreats into a false pretense as a means escape from his mundane reality -- this is a flagrant issue seen in societies abroad, typically found in young adults and it is robbing our youths of their childhood.

explanation:

a thesis -- a well developed, formal thesis is required to be one sentence long. there are many themes in "the secret life of walter mitty" and i had resolved to give you one of the simpler ones while still honing it with class.