Reader Response: POE

The story is called "The Black Cat" and it is written by Edgar Allen Poe. The story starts out when the main character was small and he loved animals. He loved to feed them and take care of them. The boy grew p and got married to a woman that loved animals as well. They had rabbits, birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, and a small monkey, and a black cat. The cat was beautiful and adorable. He got along with all the other animals. Until one day he noticed that he was becoming bad tempered. He was starting to fight with his wife. The pets of course felt the change of the mans mood. The man was nice to Pluto though, he did not maltreat the cat. One day he got home intoxicated and the cat avoided his presence. So the man picked up the cat and the cat made a slight wound on his hand. Infuriated the man grabbed a penknife and cut out one of the cats eye. The next day he was remorseful and found the cat to be in n pain. The cat ran out at the sight of the man. Once again the man was irritated and in cold blood he grabbed a rope and hanged up the cat to a tree. That night they woke up to a fire and lost everything. they moved to an apartment. The man found a cat with a patch of white on its breast and the rest black, similar to Pluto. The cat was taken home and the man tried to kill it but his wife stopped his hand and instead he killed his wife. He buried the woman in the attic and later couldn't find the cat. One day some police men showed up and searched the house and heard a cat sound coming from the wall. When they opened it they found the decaying body and the cat alive next to the body. Whats memorable about the story is how the man was nice at first and then became a mean person. "The latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree"(pg.9). This line represents the story because the fact that it id a cat, it gave me an idea that the cat was evil and mysterious.