Today while Mr.lacombe was out sick, i read the story of the Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. This story is about a black cat named Pluto. The guy in the story loved this cat. He fed the cat and the cat followed him around the house. The guy changes alot from the effects of Alcohol. He becomes a alcoholic and drinks alot. He becomes more moody and mistreats the animals and sometimes even his own wife. But never the cat, Pluto. One day he returns home very intoxicated and grabs the cat. The cat bites him, which really enraged him. At his fury, he unleashes a pen knife on the poor cat and cuts out of its eyes. The cat recovered from this horrible ordeal. Appalled by what he had done to his so called beloved animal he puts a nuce over the cats neck and hangs the cat on a tree in the backyard of his house. His house caught on fire on that same day.
Later on in the story he gets another cat. Its almost like the old one but has a white chest. This cat also manges to get on his nerves. He goes down to the cellar with his wife and the cat. The cat almost trips him which again enrages him. He grabs the axe and tries to swing at the cat but his wife stops him. Which was a fatal move on her part because this angered him towards her and ended up with him swinging that axe at her head and killing her. He quickly tries to get rid of the body. He decides to put her in the cellular inside the cellular walls. He passes his days guilt free in till the fourth day after the murder when the police came to investigate. The police search the house but come up empty on finding a body or evidence of foul play He got cocky and gave them some clues. He strucks the wall that conceals his wife's tomb. And out comes cry of horror within. The police pry the tomb open and find the corpse of the wife, on top of her head was the hideous beast.
In the story of the Black Cat no name is given for the main character. The character appears to be friendly and an animal lover. But his character changes in side the story as he becomes more violent and attacks the cat. To me he seems like a tortured soul. He is poisoned from alcohol and i t changes who he is, what he feels and ultimately what he does. He gets very moody. He can not control himself so much after drinking. He is very ill. He obviously needs help for his alcohol problem.
