the pit and the pendulum

after reading the pit and the pendulum i really didn’t quite understand it. or at least i didn’t find anything in there that was scary or gross or anything of that nature that brought an extreme reaction out of me. the one thing that i seen Poe use through out the story was when he talked about death. so for the most part you can say death is the one thing that was scary to me from the story. when we think about it no one wants to die and with that being said no one is prepared to die. death is one thing we can’t escape from we all must do it one day. but i guess the fear comes in because it is the fear of the unknown. only people that knows what happen when one person dies are the people who are dead and we can’t go to them for any questions.