A Descent into the Maelström

"The Black Cat" is a short horror story, written by Edgar Allan Poe. In this story, a narrator is in prison waiting for his punisment, as like hanging. The narrator, who is the main character ,tells us about the story of his own’s life that has gone bad… As a little child, he is decribed as a mild and kind boy who loves all kinds of animals. His favorite thing to do is taking care of his pets and spendig lots of time with them . His favorite animal is a dog. He gets married in his early age. His wife fortunately loves animals too, and they have a variety of them. One of these is a humongous, all black, super-smart cat named Pluto. When the man starts drinking lots of alcohol, his personality takes a turn for the worse. He starts physically and verbally abuse his wife and the pets without reason. „I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife.” One night, the narrator comes home completely drunk. Thinking that Pluto doesn't want to come to him, he becomes angry, grabs the cat and cuts his eye out with a pen-knife… „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.” After his terrible act, he feels remorse thus one morning, murdering Pluto, he hangs the cat on a tree in the garden. At…

Many people relate the color black to sin, sadness, or lacking luck. They think that just because the color is black, that the cat is evil, although the cat can’t pick its own color. It is just a mixture of genetics from the cat’s parents and grandparents. Black cats are also portrayed as evil or mysterious creatures in scary or Halloween themed movies, because of the witch myth. Many people think that witches own black cats. Why only cats though? This is because in ancient Pilgrim times,…

Do you know why cats and rats hate each other? It’s a common occurrence to hear that rats and cats hate each other, but do you know why? In Cat and Rat: Legend of the Chinese Zodiac they have a race to decide which months the animals will be connected with. It shows how Rat betrayed Cat by pushing her so he could win the race despite saying they’d win together. In How Cats and Mice Became Enemies it shows how Cat and Rat needed to cross a river so they used a pumpkin. In this story Rat betrays…

Rationale and scope: - Why is something as beautiful as a black cat considered to bring bad luck? I remember this time, when I saw a band of children throwing stones at a cat, which was pitch black on the streets because of the belief that their parents have passed on to them, that black cats bring bad luck. Superstitions are irrational and I think a change must be made. The main reason why I am choosing this topic is because it is something that isn't spoken about on an everyday basis,…

Warriors:Bramblestar's Storm Nive Bala 1. The title of the book I read is Warriors: Bramblestar's Storm. 2. The author of this book is Erin Hunter. 3. The plot of this book is after the cats in the story how far a big battle called the great battle the cats are still recovering but while they are recovering a huge storm comes and causes the lake to rise. The lake floods the cats' homes and they are forced to live somewhere else. During all of this smaller troubles occur between the clans.…

YaMarie Koroma Mr. Haupt In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat,” one of Poe's most prominent technique is his use symbolism. In the beginning, the narrator makes it clear that he “was especially fond of animals,” and never felt so happy “as when [was] feeding and caressing them.” He owns many animals, including Pluto. However, when the narrator comes home “much intoxicated” he goes through a change in his feelings, developing a sudden towards his pets. He describes it as the fury of a demon…

The similarities between the Black Cat and the Tell-Tail Heart is that in the Black Cat the cat was so scared that he would run away from Rob Green from what he did to the cat “deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket! I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity”(Poe). In the Tell-Tail Heart the old man's eye “He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it” (Poe) was so big that it bothered him all he wanted to do was get rid of the eye in both…

A dead cat, a bloody shirt and a field trip. Why, Honey? is a short story written by Raymond Carver. The story tells about a mother who's writing a letter about her son, who is a governor. In the letter she describes how her son had become the kind of person he is. The text consists of fear and long-lost trust alongside with the mother's various claims of the son. The author shows how some people can turn into something very different than what expected and how not trusting someone can change…

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Schrödinger’s Cat is a science fiction short story from her short story collection, The Compass Rose (1982). Schrödinger’s Cat begins with a narrator who does not identify by gender or name explaining the world in which he/she lives. A nearby couple is overheard having a breakup, yet in this unexplainable world, they mean it literally as the woman turns into a heap of body parts, with the man reduced to pieces hopping around. The most agonizing aspect of this world is that it…

I’ll give you two story of why I support this quotation "A work of literature must provide more than accuracy or vivid physical reality ... it must tell us more than what we know". These stories are both by Eger Allen Poe. The first story is The Black Cat the other story is the system of Dr Tarr and Fror Fether both of these stories will not only horrify you but will leave you shaking also there both great example of vivid detail and factual accuracy so just sit back and enjoy the story as I…