PIT AND THE PENDULUM.

What is the story of P&P about?


The story stars with the narrator, being sentenced to death by a judges.up, he thinks that he is, but then he discovers that he isFinally daring to open his eyes and finding himself in absolute darkness, he imagined that he was locked in a tomb but later discovered that he is in a cell.  Food and drink were provided to him only when he was slept.

 Later, while investigating his surroundings, he narrowly escaped falling into a deep pit to a certain death. Shaken, he fell asleep again. And when he awoke, some light entering made it possible for him to compare the room to his calculations made in the dark.

Soon he was strapped to a table so that only his head and left arm could be moved slightly. A large pendulum suspended overhead drew nearer with each pass. At last he developed a plan: He smeared some scraps of meat on his ropes so that the rats in the cell came to gnaw on them. Just as the pendulum brushed his skin, the ropes were loosened enough to allow him to escape.But his invisible tormentors moved the walls so that he was falling into the pit, but he was rescued by General Lasalle, the leader of the French army, which had just invaded Toledo.