The Black Cat Annotated

The black cat shows great detail of the horror in this story. The author starts out by saying he is to be hung the next day sending chills down your spine in the first paragraph. You continue to read along to find out why he is to be hung and your answer is discovered later on in the story. Why is he to be hung? He has a past of animal abuse due to hit beat and mistreating many animals and his wife. One of the cats he had was a black cat named pluto. The author and pluto had a great bond but one night in a drunken rage he thought pluto was avoiding him. In his rage he gouges one of the cats eyes out. Being done with this animal that he had hurt and made utterly scary with its missing eye, he fashions a noose and hangs the animal from the tree …show more content…
This man is known to be a alcoholic,One night stumbling his way home from the bar he sees a cat that reminds him so much of his cat pluto. This wandering feline follows the author home. But this animal wasn't just an ordinary cat it look identical to the cat he had hung. This cat tho had a white place going all the way around it neck that closely resembled the noose he hung his cat with and missing the same eye as pluto. This disturbed him but he thought it was a coincident. He started to see evil in this cat that frighten him most deeply, killing it was the only thing that would do to end this evil. The author tells us how he grabs an axe to chop the head of this evil beast off, but instead his wife gets in the way. With no time to know what had happened the author burys the axe deep into the skull of his wife killing her instantly. An accident is what we're told but if that true or not is another story. Rather than call the cops he hid her body in the basement wall. After four had come and gone with the cat not to be seen the cops finally came around wondering where his wife had gone. They showed up with a mountain of