In the short story‚ “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ the narrator was sane during his wife’s murder. The narrator had several pets for many years and was happy to be with his wife‚ until he started to abuse alcohol. His alcohol abuse led to the abuse of his pets and wife‚ eventually leading to his wife’s “murder‚”which is what the narrator called it when he committed the crime. Alcoholism does not make a man insane‚ the narrator knew what he was doing and he knew that it was wrong‚ unlike a person
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experiences from his own life in his stories and poems: such as alcoholism‚ losses caused by tuberculosis‚ and self sabotage. The first connection to Poe’s life is his addiction to alcohol. In “The Black Cat”‚ Poe states‚ “But my disease grew upon me- for what disease is like Alcohol.” Poe had a disease just like the narrator‚ alcoholism. Poe’s terrible addiction to alcohol affected his daily life‚ and it kept him from doing his absolute best work. Throughout the story‚ the narrator’s addiction prevents
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Cats and dogs are the most popular pets that people usually own. Both of them are mammal and bring lots of joy to us‚ they are although human being’s loyalist friend. However‚ they are different in three significant ways. To begin with‚ cats and dogs need different amount of attention from their master. People can leave food and water for cats them left them stay home whole day without their uncomfortable. However‚ it cannot work for dogs; because cats need less attention to be compared with
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Black Blizzard is a dry tidal wave that would be 7‚000 feet high and destroy everything. You and your parents would take wet towels are cram them into the bottoms of the doors and the bottoms of the windows to keep dust out. Your parents would also give you a wet towel to put over your face so you wouldn’t inhale the dust. Then you would sit in the middle of the room huddled with your family all together. Oklahoma‚Texas‚Kansas‚ New Mexico‚ and Colorado were the worst Natural disaster spots in American
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what’s written there. I lift my eyes to glance at my reflection‚ avoiding the inky black scars on my arm. I stumble out of the bathroom and down the stairs‚ tripping over the steep steps. I rush into the kitchen and give my mum a quick goodbye before stepping out the front door into the bustling street. It is full of activity‚ people running around doing errands‚ hurrying to work and none of them glancing at the black tattoo that scars them all. For me‚ it’s all I can focus on. No one seems to worry
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her I did not feel good so she told me to lay down and rest‚ so I got into bed. I tried to go to sleep‚ but It was hard. I decided to read a book to slowly make me tired. I grabbed a random book of the shelf and went in my bed. The book was called‚ “Black Death”. The first words were‚ “Sailing through the seas made the ship rock back and forth‚ making everyone seasick.” It sounded boring‚ but It made me think about my dad on the plane that could have crashed on the sea. I started to cry‚ slowly getting
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his characters are usually dominated by their emotions. This concept explains much of the seemingly erratic behavior of the characters in all of the stories. Roderick Usher’s emotions are overwrought; Ligeia and the narrator of that story both exist in the world of emotions; the behaviors of the narrators of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" are not rational; in "The Cask of Amontillado‚" the hatred of Montresor exceeds all rational explanations. Throughout Poe’s fiction‚ much of the behavior
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experiences to pioneer the horror and mystery genres to create chilling tones. In the short stories “The Black Cat”‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ and “the Masque of the Red Death”‚ Poe uses often demented characters‚ rich symbolism‚ as well as unique perspectives to convey themes from his own life and build his stories effects. Poe’s use of characterization in the stories ‘The Black Cat”‚ “the Tell-Tail Heart”‚ and “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ allow Poe to demonstrate the madness
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Dogs vs cats By: Leslie In my opinion‚ I think dogs are better than cats for many reasons for example: helps us be more active‚ they’re not that mean to visitors‚ and there are easy to train them to do stuff. Dogs help you be more active. Dogs help you be more active because they always want to play with their owners and have to go for walks. And there always fun to play with because some dogs if you throw something‚ for example‚ a frisbee they will bring
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Hearts” – “The Black Cat” Comparison “The Tell-Tale Hearts” and “The Black Cat” are two stories that share more similarities than differences. The plots both start out the same with a main character whose actions throughout the story makes apparent to the reader his insanity and have to deal with the internal and external dilemmas that are caused by the evil deeds‚ which both happen to be involved with murder‚ due to the unstable state of the man’s conscience. The two stories have settings that
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