a horde of rats
a sharpened pendulum getting ever nearer
a bottomless pit with wall closing in.
The falling action is the narrators attempt to dispose the old mans body and the conversation he had with the four police before the narrator admitted or confessed to his crime or the killing of the old man (landlord)
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The narrator in the short story is unnamed; however, in the movie version, the narrator is called "TC," presumably after the author, T.C. Boyle.
how their relationship ended
The French army rescues the narrator from his prison in "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe. They arrive just in time to save him from the descending pendulum, which would have killed him.
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The narrator in "The Pit and the Pendulum" is rescued by General Lasalle, a French army officer who arrives just in time to save him from being killed by the descending pendulum.
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