THE BLACK CAT-BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

THE BLACK CAT-BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

1. 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

2. SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

   • Barman
   • The office policeman
   • Neighbors

3. SETTING

   • The basement
   • The building
   • The house
   • The inn
   • The cell

4. 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

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