the black cat presentation

THE BLACK CAT

Juidth Fernandez Diaz

By

Edgar Allan Poe

“I married early, and was happy to find my

wife”

“Pluto was my favorite pet and playmate”

Conflict

The conflict begins to unfold when the man describes the way his personality changed for the worse when he started drinking heavily.

Rising Action

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He mistreats his animals and his wife but does not harm Pluto until one night he lashes out at Pluto and cuts out one of his eyes.

“One morning I decided to….”

. A new black cat is discovered in a barrel of alcohol with a white mark on his fur resembling gallows (things to hang people from). A new black cat is discovered in a barrel of alcohol with a white mark on his fur resembling gallows (things to hang people from)A new black cat is discovered in a barrel of alcohol with a white mark on his fur resembling gallows (things to hang people from). A new black cat is discovered in a barrel of alcohol with a white mark on his fur resembling gallows (things to hang people from)

A new black cat is discovered in a barrel of alcohol with a white mark on his fur resembling gallows

. A new black cat is discovered in a barrel of alcohol with a white mark on his fur resembling gallows (things to hang people from)

“ I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it. I did not, for some weeks”

The narrator heads into his cellar and almost trips over this new cat. He is going to kill it when his wife tries to stop him. He t akes an ax to her head and kills her. He then dismembers the body and decides to hide it behind the plaster of one of his walls in the basement. He looks around for the cat and figures it has scampered off.

CLIMAX

The police show up on the fourth day after the murder and the narrator takes them on a tour of the house to ease their suspicions.

Falling Actions

At this point the cat cries out from behind the wall, the police tear it away and discover the cat sitting on top the dead wife's head.

Resolution

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”Edgar Allan Poe.