Evil - By Edgar Alan Poe

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The first story we will examine is "The Black Cat". This story first appeared in the United States Saturday Post (The Saturday Evening Post) on August 19, 1843 (Womak). The story opens with the narrator deciding to record the events that led him to murder his wife and the cat as he awaits his execution the next day. The narrator is first described as a gentle, loving man who would never hurt a fly. He has a pet cat that he loves more than anything in the world. After some years, the narrator develops a drinking problem and starts to become irritable and violent, not only to people but also to his pets. Late one night after drinking excessively at the bar, the man returns home. Upon the man's arrival at the house, Pluto, the cat tries to avoid him most likely because his now violent temper. The man grabs Pluto, which startles the cat who reacts by biting the man's hand. The man was so enraged by the cat's reaction that he pulls out his penknife and ...

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thoughts and feelings, goes down stairs and gets the axe to finally kill the animal. His wife sees what is going on and tries to stop him. This only enrages the man even further, and he drives the axe into his wife's head. Shortly after the act, he realizes what his has done and decides he must get rid of the body. After much debate and many different ideas he decides to wall her up in the cellar, as the monks of the Middle Ages were recorded to have done to their victims. After he finishes bricking her into the wall, he decides it is time to find the cat. He searches all over the house to find the accursed animal and never does. He decides that the cat must have fled the house ...

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