Halloween Meets The Short Story Summary

	The second black cat is symbolic of the narrator’s guilt. The night after the narrator’s house caught on fire, he went to a bar where he saw black cat two. Black cat two resembled black cat one in every aspect except one. The finding of black cat two is symbolic of the night in which the narrator had came home from a bar toxicated. When the narrator began to leave the bar, black cat two began to follow him and this is symbolic of the guilt that follows the narrator. The narrator noticed that black cat two resembled

Introduction: Patrons of the season of Halloween spend over $2.5 billion dollars every year on candy, costumes, and decorations. Every year millions of kids get dressed up, knock on doors, and beg for candy. Have you ever wondered where this strange tradition originated? The three most important points of Halloween can be summed up by looking at its origins, how it came to include jack-o-lanterns and bobbing for apples, and how it is celebrated today with trick-or-treating and haunted houses.

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Clearly the most ironic element in "The Black Cat" is the Narrator's own perversely unrealistic and distorted view of the horrible scenario that unfolds. He dismisses his awful cat mutilation as a "vile or silly action" committed, perhaps, like other foolish acts committed by "Man" "for no other reason than because he knows he should not." He goes on to wonder, "Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such" (FN3)? Later he finds himself haunted by the specter of the dead cat, but he comes up with a rational, albeit improbable, explanation for the strangled-cat image on his burned-out wall. His married life is a shambles and he lives, as we will learn later in the story, with a murderous, suppressed rage. But he barely mentions his wife until the end, when, in fact, he kills her; and he calmly goes about his daily life as if nothing were wrong, giving no hint that this peaceful facade is about to crumble.

In “The Black Cat,” the narrator has a cat named Pluto, and he follows him around everywhere he goes. One night, the narrator came home after a bad night and strangled his cat and cut his eye out due to his frustration. The empty eye socket on the cat caused the narrator anxiety and he decided to hang him. He then gets another cat to fill the hole of guilt in his heart, but this cat is just like the other one; a one-eyed black cat. The man tries to kill this cat with an axe, but his wife stops him, so he kills her instead.

In “The Black Cat” the narrator feels that the cat is out to get him and that this is what leads him to kill his wife. He becomes extremely paranoid of the cat and eventually has to have his wife come alongside him while on daily routines around their dwelling place. Anger and frustration start to overwhelm the narrator, and the main the character lets this consume him driving him insane. Among other things , the narrator says, “[it] was now the representation of an object that I shudder to name—and for this, above all, I loathed, and dreaded, and would have rid myself of the monster had I dared—it was now, I say, the image of a hideous—of a ghastly thing—of the GALLOWS!

In the story the Black Cat the narrator is going insane. His insanity is his internal conflict that drives the story forward. The first show of insanity is when the narrator gouges the left eye out of his beloved cat. He had no reason to do it other than the cat made him mad. After he hardly feels any remorse for his horrible act. The cat recovers but shies away from him. Now he is irritated with a cat. In his slight irritation he ties a noose on a tree and hangs his cat from it. He feels horrible and now yearns for another cat to take its place. Then he finds another cat just like it and he brings it home. The cat is more attached to his wife and this angers him. As he and his wife walk down the stairs the cat only bumps into him and the narrator

While doing it, tears streamed down his face. He is ashamed of what he has become. He knows that the cat had loved him and had given him no reason to hang it. What he did was an act of pure perversity- doing wrong for the sake of wrong. In The Black Cat, there are many themes such as transformation, irony, and loyalty.

“-my mother had brought home two cats. Black cats. Beautiful creatures. ”(Page 95)The scene is set at first as a gentle, happy thought. Reading the first couple of lines in the start, even with the very minimal detail, you can almost just picture the sleek, glossy jet black figures of the felines.

Ever wonder what it would feel like to kill someone? The power one would feel and the high one would achieve would be like no other. The power and high one would feel would be overwhelming, but eventually that energy would turn into a terrifying feeling. This is what the main character of “The Black Cat,” felt as he murdered his dear wife and pet cat. “The Black Cat,” was published in 1843. In that era, black cats were thought to be a symbol of bad luck, which turns out to be true for the main character. Pet Animals are known to cure humans emotionally and mentally, but when a pet animal becomes someone’s only source of happiness, it turns into an obsession. The main character adored his pet cat, until he found himself drunk and noticed

Having moved into a new house, the narrator happens across a black cat, which then follows him home. Nerves rattled, the narrator does his best to avoid the cat. When that fails he tries to kill it, accidentally killing his wife in the process. After sealing his wife's body into the basement wall, he is interviewed by the police. Not unlike in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator of “The Black Cat” cracks under the pressure of his guilt and gives himself up. Symbolism and suspense make “The Black Cat” worth reading.

As I was walking back from school with my friends, Will and Alex, we were talking about what we were going to do tonight for Halloween. The teachers seem to be really concerned about us, telling us not to go by ourselves but rather go in big groups or with our parents for trick or treating, like were 13, we can handle ourselves. Mr. Robert our history teacher was telling all the kids that he hates Halloween because it symbolizes the devil and demons. He was yelling at another student, I forgot her name but she was saying that she was going to dress up as the devil and try to summon other demons he was not having it, he kicked her out immediately. As she was leaving she said something weird speaking gibberish something like “Ligandum eos

It was a foggy night on Halloween Many think that the barrier between our world and the underworld are at the weakest point well let's find out Me and my friends love Halloween we can be anyone or anything for only one day out of the year.Every year me and my friends lucy,who is a more scientific person believes every thing should be proven she has black hair blue eyes Parker,wants some money he has blond hair and green eyes and Eleanor is a scaredy cat she has white hair and brown eyes.we take a trip to my parents cabin in the louisiana swamp It is great this time of year because we always go looking for unusual things out of this world things paranormal things. We always see something but you never let them see you!

“So kids, every Halloween, it is said that her ghost, roams the empty hallways of this very school, searching for another female student to take her place.” The students were now on the edge of their wooden seats, eyes wide, listening to every word Mr. Morris said. All of a sudden the loud bell breaks the silence, making each one of them jump.