Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat'

The man gives in to the police after being disturbed by his very own heart, which was thought to be the dead man’s. Similarly, The Black Cat is about a man who lived with his wife and many pets. Eventually, his hatred towards his favorite pet cat grew. He first cut its eye out, then hung it. One night a new cat comes along and the previous incident reoccurs, despite the man not wanting it to happen.

He was sad, and when grandma came, she said he has to be on a diet, so Socks was very hungry. So he need attention, so he bit Mrs. Brickers So he was out at the family. But one rainy day, Socks had a fight with a strong, tough cat. He hurt himself very much.

The marriage he reveals was slowly damaged with the rise of his addiction to alcohol, as to why his rampant need of alcohol started, we are never told. The narrator discusses his black cat, one which his wife, also a lover of animals, had gotten him. Eventually the Narrator recounts, “One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth. The fury of a demon instantly possessed me.

Addiction is defined as compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (such as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful. And to further explain it means you cannot stop doing something even if it may be hurting your self and others. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Black Cat the narrator is about to receive the death penalty and he is telling his story. When he was young he loved animals which led to having a lot of pets, He had one pet which he loved best a black cat named Pluto. One night he had come home from the bar drunk and Pluto was trying to avoid him and he

He experiences feelings of remorse and horror after but describes these feeling as feeble and soon continued with his wayward ways. When he notices that the cat is avoiding him he has some feelings of guilty but that soon turns into irritation that grows into perverseness. This is when we see the narrator become a full blown schizophrenic. In cold blood, he ties a noose around Pluto’s neck and hangs the cat in a tree.

When the characters are first introduced the narrator speaks of a ramshackle home at the end of the street and. “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom... When people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work. Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people’s chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker’s Eddy, people still looked at the Radley Place...”

There are few depressing events that occur during the course of the tale: for instance, the loss of the narrator’s former self, the abuse his other animals and wife, and his home due to the black cat’s occurring involvement. Despite the losses, however, the narrator surprisingly introduces a new black cat into his new home. The narrator thinks this will get rid of all his former dreadful memories and emotions of Pluto by introducing the new cat into his life, the narrator receives the exact opposite symbolizing the misfortune of the black cat have on the narrator. The text can provide evidence to this by stating “[t]his was just the reverse of what I had anticipated; but- I know not how or it – its evident fondness for myself rather disgusted

When he was in Manzanar, he was so mentally unstable, he would over-drink every day and make unreasonable decisions. One night he over drank in the barracks and threatened “to kill [Mama] this time! “ (69). Here Papa almost kills Mama while drunk and doesn't realize what he is doing, until he is stopped. Being drunk causes people to not think about their decisions, and if he really did kill Mama, there is no reversing that.

The other family that is introduced and then is being told about by Stephen King consists of Joe, Charity and their son Brett. Joe Cambers is a mechanic who lives outside the city with his family and is a very harsh and cold man who likes to drink beer with his neighbour and occasionally hits his wife Charity for not being obedient(even thought it never happens). In the beginning of the book author introduces Cujo, a huge St. Bernard who is also a family member of Cambers and is loved by his owners. Stephen King describes an event in which Cujo gets bitten by a rabid bat on his nose and eventually is turning into a rabid dog. Vic is a busy man with a lot of work that must be done to fight with a short-run struggle their firm is facing in the advertisement business, so he takes a flight back to New York where the negotiations with his employer take place.

and he became violent and flung the cat to the tree. I felt as if this was a way of taking his anger and agression towards his grandmother because the cat reminded him of her. After the accident, this was the moment where the grandmother was faced with veracity and temptation. The Misfit in the story is like an evil fallen angel, a man who knows the gospel and dosen’t accepts it. Soon after the story gives a creepy explanation of the Misfit’s arrival by saying, “It was a big black battered hearse-like automobile...

In the short story The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe, the story revolves around a man on death row who is giving his confession to a murder. The story starts out as the narrator tells the readers that from a young age, he had always loved animals. He and his wife have many pets, the favorite of his being a large black cat called Pluto. The narrator and Pluto are very close and their friendship last for many years until the narrator becomes an alcoholic. One night after coming home completely intoxicated, he grabs his cat and in an effort to escape, Pluto bites him.

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller the power of the towns government and religion are the backbone of the story, the case of the witch trials. In the book, the main character, Abigail, blames numerous girls for witchcraft. "I'll lead them in a psalm,but let you say nothing of witchcraft yet" (Miller 17). She does this out of spite due to jealousy over goody Proctor. In their town, based on their religion, witchcraft is serious, devilish ritual and forbidden.

Death, love, darkness, betrayal, greed, and cruelty are all themes that Edgar Allen Poe use in his stories. He uses these themes with different settings and characters, which all relate. The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat are two of Poe’s stories that have different settings and characters but have the same themes. Edgar Allen Poe was a nineteenth century author who wrote stories. His stories were full of mystery, suspense and horror.

When life becomes rough, how do people cope with it? Some people channel their struggles through a creative outlet. Others deal with it in more negative and harmful ways. Edgar Allen Poe dealt with his hardships in both ways. Many people in his life, including his parents, had died when he was young, thus starting the chain that was his depressing life.

ad Luck Of The Black Cat Have you ever listened to that little voice inside yourself that is telling you to go down the path of no return? In “The Black Cat” the narrator is sentenced to death, however before he is executed he explains the reasons how he was caught. Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism, irony, and personification to blame the little voice inside his head for the poor choices he knowingly made. This glimpse inside his head will help us to understand the narrator’s thoughts about what he perceives as real and and what is not . He uses symbolism for his relationship with his wife and cat, irony when he finally gets caught by police and personification when he describes his cat as a beast that is trying to get him..him to be abusive to his animal and ultimately lead him to kill his own wife.