In "The Black Cat " narrator is describing: "Yet, mad am I not -- and very surely do I not dream. ... Poe has introduced only two characters in the tales of terror such as in "The Tell-Tale Heart " and "The Black Cat " there is only two characters, one is the protagonists and another one is the victim and also in both stories narrator has no name. ... In "The Tell-Tale Heart,"" "The Cask of Amontillados,"" and "The Black Cat," the " narrators use their destructive urge to murder people. ... The unnamed narrators of the "The Tell-Tale Heart"" and "The Black Cat"" have almost the same categories...

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The narrator of the story, "The Black Cat," would not gouge out the cat's eye and then hang it from a tree as well as he would not kill his wife if he were sane. ... For instance, in the short story, "The Black Cat," addiction to alcohol is portrayed in the relation with insanity of the narrator: "Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character - through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance - had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. [] But my disease grew upon me - ...

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But although she agrees to follow through with the excursion, she refuses to go with out her cat Pitty Sing. Afraid that the cat will accidentally asphyxiate himself on the gas stove if left behind, she secretly stows Pitty Sing in her basket. ... The grandmother drifts in and out of "cat-naps," but awakens quickly when the family reaches the town of Toombsboro. ... Furthermore, while they wonder what to do next, a "big black battered hearse-like automobile" tops the hill coming towards them, presenting the last clue before the actual killings begin to occur (Jones 2887). ... When br...

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• Grade Level: High School

But although she agrees to follow through with the excursion, she refuses to go with out her cat Pitty Sing. Afraid that the cat will accidentally asphyxiate himself on the gas stove if left behind, she secretly stows Pitty Sing in her basket. ... The grandmother drifts in and out of "cat-naps," but awakens quickly when the family reaches the town of Toombsboro. ... Furthermore, while they wonder what to do next, a "big black battered hearse-like automobile" tops the hill coming towards them, presenting the last clue before the actual killings begin to occur (Jones 2887...

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A more obscure account of foreshadowing occurs when the family is preparing to leave for Florida and the grandmother is the first one in the car, with Pitty Sing, her cat, hidden in a basket because "she didn't intend for the cat to be left alone in the house for three days because he would miss her too much and she was afraid he might brush against one of the gas burners and accidentally asphyxiate himself. Her son, Bailey, didn't like to arrive at a motel with a cat" (473). The cat will eventually play a large role in the family's misfortunes, but, upon first reading, one do...

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• Grade Level: High School