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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Another critic says, " ˜The Black Cat' is perfect eerie and dark. ... One points out, "In ˜The Black Cat' drink turns a once loving and compassionate man into a monster. ... The cat was large and black. ... In "The Black Cat " it begins with the narrator in jail awaiting his execution, which will occur on the following day, for the brutal murder of his wife. ... It is frightening because we witness in "The Fall of the House of Usher " and "The Black Cat " how quickly one can become consumed with madness....

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"The Black Cat" and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe are very appealing short stories which both deal with the theme of death. ... The "Black Cat" is about a psychotic animal lover who acquires and befriends a stray black cat until a moment of madness occurs where he cuts out its eye and hangs it. ... A piece of characterisation which Poe uses to tackle the theme of death is when the insane narrator in "The Black Cat" pounces for the animal, after a few drinks, clutching a pen-knife and tears one of its eyes out with the weapon. ... A good example of this technique is in "The Black...

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Some of the most striking similarities can be found between "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", two short stories that divulge the inner workings of a perverse mind. ... "The Black Cat" is Poe's second psychological study of domestic violence and guilt (the first being "The Tell-Tale Heart"); however, this story does not deal with premeditated murder. ... Suffering from intemperance of alcohol and the same obsessive disorder, the man from "The Black Cat" was otherwise good-natured. Denying his insanity, the narrator from "Heart" is very similar to the man in "The Black Cat", w...

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In 1843 he published, "The Black Cat- and "The Tell Tale Heart."" ... In "The Black Cat- the narrator begins his story of demise, by describing a relationship with a cat that he claims to love. ... He eventually kills the cat and his beloved wife. ... The same sense brazen achievement can be seen in "The Black Cat- as the narrator exclaims, "I looked around the room triumphantly, and said to myself "Here at least , then, my labor has not been in vain.""-(209). ... The narrator in "the Black Cat- is seen as an alcoholic man who slowly loses his grip on reality as well. ...

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The grandmother's cat jumps after being startled by the grandmother. The cat lands on the son and he wreaks the car. ... Across the hall, a young black couple moves in. Tanner finds it fascinating that a black man can do well. ... The black actor teaches Tanner. ...

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She got so embarrassed she jumped up knocked over the cat carrier, the cat jumped on her son's shoulder (who was driving) and they ended up in a ditch. ... For example, she still thinks of black people as slave, so he goes and sits next to them on the bus. ... When the mother offered a little black boy a penny the mother of the boy took offence and shoved Julian's mother to the ground. ...

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Summers spoke about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. ... If it weren't for the grandmothers cat Pitty Sing they would have never come across the Misfit. ... To him the lottery was not bad because he was never the one to pick the black marker. ... She was thinking if they could pick then they would be the ones that picked the black mark. ...

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They first "went up the cat-and-dog-food-breakfast-cereal-macaroni-rice-raisins-seasonings-spreads-spaghetti-soft-drinks-crackers-and-cookies aisle". ... Updike writes "there was this one, with one of those chubby berry-faces, the lips all bunched together under her nose, this one, and a tall one, with black hair that hadn't quite frizzed right, and one of these sunburns right across under the eyes, and a chin that was too long." ...

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It is a "big black battered hearse-like automobile" (273). ... After grandmother's cat gets startled and jumps onto Bailey, who is driving, causing a wreck, the family all ends up outside the car ten feet below the road in a deep ditch. ...

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The rabbits, though naturally nervous little creatures, would "move down out of the snow, [ despite being seen] coming a mile away [ ] as white and pure as Persian cats, hopping over brown logs [ and] trails of black earth," to eat your berries (189). ... After the flames had gone out, so to did their relationship, pushed too far and too long without any _expression, and, consequently, both the fields and Joe were left scarred, "scorched and black, hidden beneath a cover of snow" (199). ...

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