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"The Black Cat"

Luke Hoffner

Reading Project

Genre

Genre

Horror

Horror is most likely the genre of his story. Many people would find this story scary, or even give them the chills. This story would be thought of as horror most likely because of the killing of the cat, and just what happens to the man when he gets another one. This story is definitely fiction.

Mystery Fiction

Mystery Fiction is another genre that this stroy could be described as. In this story a woman is killed and it is up to the cops to figure out what happened. However this story wouldn't happen in real life. In this story the cat almost comes back to life and does things to this man.

Author's Purpose

The author wrote this story to entertain. There is nothing he is try to presuade you of and this tory is fictional so he isn't really informing you of any facts of histprical dates.

Author's Purpose

Setting

Setting

Time

There is no exact time when this story happened, however there are clues that it is from the past. In this story, a man murders his wife with an axe in a cellar, Cellars aren't very popular these days, but they were in the past. One of the key clues is that this man is in a jail cell, about to be hung. Hanging is illegal nowadays, so it is definitely thought that this story happened in the past.

Place

Place

Since this story is partly fiction there isn't really a specific place where it all happened. Some of the story takes place in the man's home, and also in his garden. It also takes place in the wine cellar. The wine cellar is extremely important to the story because it is where the man got caught and where his wife was murdered. This story creates a tragic and spooky mood.

Characters

Characters

The Narrator

The narrator is one of the main, or major characters in this story. From what we know the narrator is a handsome young man who is in his late 20s and goes through many changes in the story. The Narrator was once probably a good person and had a wife who he loved. However once this man found alcohol, it was all over. He began to get very irritable and angry. For the changes he goes through he is definitely a dynamic and round character. This man's strength used to be with pets. He loved them and owned many. However when he became an alcoholic that strength went away. One of his weaknesses is a quick temper. He is easily angered and does many bad things because of his short temper. You can tell what a self confident person he is when he says "The tenderness of my heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my comapanions." This man clearly, when narrating the story doesn't want us to know the truth about his personality.

The Black Cat

The black cat is the other main character in this story. He is definitely a major character. This cat is a black cat named Pluto that used to love its owner. The cat does go through changes, even though its not a human. Like I said the cat used to love its owner, but then he became an alcoholic and while he was toxicated cut the cat's eye out. The cat obviously did not like him now. The narrator ended up killing the cat. You could definitley say the cat is a dynamic or round character.

Literary Devices

Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing is a great literary device. It gives you small hints that something will happen in the future

Foreshadowing

Untrustworthy Narrator

An untrustworthy narrator can give the story a whole other perspective. It shows that the narrator is actually a bad person, though he talks about himself as if he is a great person

Untrustworthy Narrator

Building Suspense

Building suspense is a literary device that makes a story very interesting to read. When building suspense the story gets more and more intense and makes it hard for you to stop reading.

Building Suspense

Conflict

The narrator in this story is constantly toxicated with alcohol which is a big conflict because of the things he does when he's toxicated. The man first cuts out the eye of the cat and then hangs it. Since he did this the cat came back to haunt him. The narrator also kills his wife after trying to stop him from killing his next cat. He was probably drunk when he did this. The alcohol is the reason for all this, therefore it is the conflict.

Conflict

Exposition

When the man was a kid he owned many pets and loved them all. His parents were part of a circus, this meant lots of moving around for the narrator, family, and pets. Later on in his life he married a young girl, who is the wife later on in the story. And, most recent, we know this man owned many oets as an adult, but his favorite was a black cat named Pluto.

Exposition

Rising Action

The man gets mor, and more aggrivated, because of the acohol. The narrator eventually becomes an alcoholic and starts taking his anger out on the cat. He tears its eye out with a knife and hangs it the next day because he couldn't stand to look at what he had done. Later in the story he murders his wife by putting an axe through her skull. He puts the body in a wall and hopes no one will find it.

Rising Action

Climax

The climax is the most intense part in the story, so for me in the Black Cat, the climax would be when the man gets caught for murder. The cops come to check his cellar because they know his wife got murdered. They look around and find nothing. As they are walking out they here something in the wall. It was the cat! they tear down all the bricks and find the body with cat sitting on top of it.

Falling Action

There isn't much of a falling action in this story. It is mainly when the man gets arrested by the police and taken off to jail.

Falling Action

Resolution

The resolution is easy to predict in this story. Once you hear the narrator is writing this from his jail cell you realize that he must've done somthing wrong. When you hear that he murdered his wife it is obvious the resolution is that he will be hung for his murder.

Resolution

Theme

The theme of this story is to take resonsibility for your actions. The man in this story blames everything on alcohol and doesn't admit that anything was his fault.

Theme

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