Pluto In The Black Cat

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The Black Cat, the narrator is a psycho because in the beginning he would flip to crazy as fast as a light switch. He flipped one time and ended up cutting the eye out of his cat then he hung the cat by his neck off of a tree. He cut the eye out of the cat "Pluto" because pluto was old a very peevish and was a little grumpy that night and so the Narrator came home drunk a chased the cat around and the cat bite him on the hand because the cat wanted to be left alone. After the narrator had hung and killed his cat "Pluto," his whole house burnt down but one wall and then there was a shadow of the hanging cat on that wall. He got another cat that he loved then he flipped and grew to hate the cat and the

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