Story "The Black Cat"

           Story-The Black Cat

   Introduction

      Edgar Allen Poe was born January 19, 1809-or died on October 7, 1849- American author, poet, editor and literary critic. "The Black Cat" is a famous short story from horror- master Edgar Allen Poe. It was first printed on August 13,1843. "The Black Cat" it's a story about domestic violence and brutal murder. It's the death raw confession of homeless man who destroys himself, his wife and his poets.

 Edgar Allen Poe 

Summary- The Black Cat

      From his prison cell, the unnamed narrator is writing the story of how everything in his life feels a part. Since he will die the next day, he wants to dent the record straight and tells us the story of his life.

             From the day he is born, he is mild and kind. He loves animal sand has lots of them as he gets older up these qualities grow stronger. Talking care of his poet and hanging out with them his favorite thing to do. His favorite animal companion is his dog.

               Before long, he gets married. His wife loves animals too and fell the house with a variety of them. One of these is a humongous all black, super-smart cat named Pluto. When the man starts drinking his personality takes a turn for the worse. He starts physically and verbally abusing his wife and pets. One night the narrator comes home from partying completely drunk. Thinking Pluto didn't want to hung out with him, he grubs the cat and cuts his eyes out withal pen-knife. One morning not long after the eye-gouging, the narrator is overcome with a perverse impulse.

           "It is really hunted"

                        He hung Pluto from a tree in his garden, murdering him writing from his jail cell, the narrator claims he did it precisely because he knew it was wrong. That night, the night of the murder, the man's house catches fire and burns down only man his wife and one servant are left alive. When the narrator returns the next day, there is a crowd in his bedroom, looking at his bedroom wall. On the wall is the slightly raised image of a

        "Gigantic cat with a rope

          around its neck."

             Since he left the cat hanging all day and all night he figures one of the neighbors cut it down and then it through his window to walk him up. Somehow it stuck in the plaster of the wall. This bothers the man for a long time.

                One night when he's out drinking, another black cat appears on the scene this cat looks just like Pluto, except for the little white spot on his chest. The man talks the cat home and his wife is quite pleased when it is discovered that this cat is also missing an eye. The man begins to despise it, while the women love it all the more.

                After some time passes the women shows the man that the white spot on the cat's fur has grown. Oddly, the white spot now forms on image of,

            "The Gallows!"

       The man is too afraid of the cat to abuse it. The cat never leaves him alone for a moment and even site on his chest and breathes in his face when he is in bed. So, the man doesn't get any sleep as his loathing of the cat increases, so does his physical and verbal abuse of his wife. One day he and his wife go down to the cellar of the crummy old house they live in now that they are poor the cat follower them.

      In a fit of extreme irritation the man tries to kill the cat an axing. The women stops him and the man

   "Buries the axing her brain, killing her"

        The narrator wonders how best to conceal the baby? After much deliberation, the man decides to hide the body in a space behind the cellar wall. The cat is now here to be seen.

              The cops come around but the man has finesses them. No big deal on the fourth day, still no cat but the police return and search the house again, especially the cellar. Right when they are about to leave, abandoning their search of the cellar, the narrator decides to starts bragging about how well built the house. He talked his can and hits it against the spot in the wall where he is hidden his wife's body.

             A noise answers his knock! It is a sad sound, like a kid crying. It sounds horrible and desperate but also victorious the police are on it. They talk down the wall only to find the dead body with the cat on top of its head and that's why the narrator is in jail, sentenced to death by hanging. The narrator had accidentally shut the cat up in the wall with the body.