"The Black Cat" By: Edgar Allen Poe They lived in a nice city and were friendly people. ... Pluto, who is the cat, was all black and very friendly. ... I would identify more with the cat than anything would. ... After gauging out the cats" eye, the next day the narrator goes and hangs the cat from the tree in the back yard. ... After the narrator and his wife moved into their new house, a black cat, with a patch of white on his stomach, started to follow the narrator around. ...

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In Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat, there is symbolism weaved throughout the story. ... The story then moves to present day and the narrator goes on to tell the audience about his cat Zeus and his growing animosity toward the cat. As the story moves on the narrator then kills his cat, and out of guilt acquires another cat. His hostility grows again towards the second cat and he then tries to kill it. ... The first use of symbolism occurs when the narrator introduces his cat, Pluto. ...

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A good example of this is when the people of Maycomb convict Tom Robinson, who is just an innocent man was going about his business and is basically being charged for being black. ... The children at first believe the tales they here about Boo being seven feet tall, and eating the neighborhood cats and squirrels. They are also hinted to by most of Maycomb's white population that Tom is an evil black person that rapes white women, except that the children have Atticus" influence and a few others that are not racist and know better that Tom is innocent. This is also similar to Boo...

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If someone commits an evil deed, he or she can't stop the so behaviour, because they want to protect themselves. William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth does more and more evil deeds to protect himself. Because of his ambition and desires make him can't stop committing. He is afraid of his evil deeds be...

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By finding him guilty, they did not take the word of a black man over two whites because this threatens the system of their society. ... In addition, Scout tries to explain what Boo looks like to Dill saying that he was, "six-and-a-half feet tall, dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, his hands were blood-stained; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time" (19). ...

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