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THE BLACK CAT-BY
EDGAR ALLAN POE
- MAIN CHARACTERS
- WIFE
- She had birds, goldfish a fine dog, rabbits and a cat.
- She a disposition not uncongenial with his own
- She love a the animals
- PLUTO CAT
- It cat was a remarkably large an deautiful
- The cat's name was pluto, was his favorite and playmate.
- It cat was sagacious to an astonishing degree
- BLACK CAT
- He was especially fond of animals
- He tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to made
the jest of this companions
- From his infancy he was noted for the docility and humanity of his disposition.
- SECOND BLACK CAT
- It was a black cat—a very large one—fully as large as Pluto, and closely
resembling him in every respect but one. Pluto had not a white hair
upon any portion of his body; but this cat had a large, although
indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the
breast.
- That, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes
- SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
- Barman
- The office policeman
- Neighbors
- SETTING
- The basement
- The building
- The house
- The inn
- The cell
- SITUATIONS
- He took from his waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped
the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes
from the socket
- One morning, in cool blood, he slipped a noose
about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree
- On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was
aroused from sleep by the cry of fire. The curtains of my bed were
in flames. The whole house was blazing
- I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the ax in her
brain. She fell dead upon the spot without a groan
- Upon the fourth day of the assassination, a party of the police came
very unexpectedly into the house, and proceeded again to make
rigorous investigation of the premises
- he had walled the monster up
within the tomb