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Edgar Allan Poe and The Black Cat

            "The Black Cat," written by Edgar Allan Poe, is a unique story about a man and his relationship with a cat. In the story Edgar Allen Poe is explaining his problematic situation that he finds himself in when he falls madly in love with his cat however soon becomes enraged with hatred towards the animal that leads him to even kill the animal. Throughout the story the reader gets the feeling of a gray strange feeling as they read more and more through out the story, which is why in the beginning before the story begins Edgar Allen Poe gives a foreshadow of how the story ends with his death being sentenced to him. In a program that was hosted by Peter Lorre, who was apart of reading the story and acting it out in a program called Mystery in the Air. When Peter Lorre is describing and presenting the story he does an exceptional job portraying the setting and plot line of the story when it comes to the tone of voice, the sound affects, and the music it all makes it better to mirroring the story plot line. .
             In the program where Peter Lorre was reading and acting out the story of the Black Cat that was once wrote many years ago by writer Edgar Allen Poe. Many readers who have read the story get the impression that the main character of the story has strange outlook on life and handles it in far bizarre ways. One thing that Peter Lorre does very well is that even through out the beginning of the story tale his voice is very out of the ordinary; his tone presents himself as someone who has multiple type of psychology issues which is perfectly similar to the voice many people envision Edgar Allen Poe to have when he was going through the experience. One example is how in the program the intensity of his communication style when it comes to scenes when Peter Lorre would be having conversations with his wife during the scene he would go from talking unsteadily to screaming holding nothing back.


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