The Cat's Physical And Verbal Abuse

Afraid of his master, the cat slightly wounded the narrator on the hand with his teeth. Because of the cats reaction to his picking him up, the narrator pokes out one of the cat’s eye. The eye of the cat which is

This man starts off his account by he was fond of animals, even going as far as to say that he “spent most of [his] time with them, and never was so happy as when [he was] feeding and caressing them”(Poe, 319). The man then goes on to speak about his and his wife’s cat, Pluto, and how they had been close for several years. But as time went on, it wore down the man and he became “more moody, more irritable, more regardless of feelings of others”(Poe, 320). He goes on to say that he used “intemperate language’ with his wife and even went as far as “personal violence” towards her. The man, during all of this, gives the audience an uneasy feeling. By starting a story saying how much he loved animals, then trailing off saying he abused his wife as time went on, leaves the audience questioning this man, like what’s going on in this guy’s head and gives the feeling of “uh-oh, what’s he going to do now?” The man proceeds to come home drunk one night, resulting in an altercation with the cat, leaving poor Pluto with one eye. Next, comes the horrific fall into madness, as the man murders his wife in a fit of temper, then hiding her rotting corpse behind a brick wall. Throughout this story, the man

As the story goes along the reader can see how the narrator’s alcoholic behavior increases dramatically. The alcoholism plays such a large role in the development of the narrator and even the development of the story that the narrator even goes so far as to call “It” a disease. As the story progresses the narrator slowly gets angrier and more violent. Leading to him going into a drunken rage causing him to gouge out the eye of his beloved cat Pluto because he would not show him any affection. Then the story goes on through a series of events involving him hanging his cat, because he was so upset at the fact that he caused his cat so much pain and that the cat would not want to be around him. After a while he and his wife find a new home and after some time of living there he notices another black cat next to a huge barrel of alcohol. Now the barrel is very significant part of the story even though that section of the story is only briefly mentioned. The black cat next to the barrel of alcohol could defiantly signify that his alcoholism is going to kill him or lead to his demise in some way. In the end of the story he ends up hating the new cat because his wife loved it tremendously. The cat constantly kept rubbing on his legs while he was walking, making him believe the cat was trying to kill him. He ended up getting tired of his cat’s actions so he attempted to kill the cat, followed up with him killing his wife, which lead to his execution.

In “The Black Cat,” the man was married to a patient and caring woman. They acquired another cat that, according to the man, looked remarkably like Pluto (709). One day, the cat almost tripped the man while they were walking down a flight of stairs. This “exasperated” the man “to madness” (Poe 709). He lifted an axe and “aimed a blow at the animal,” (Poe 709).

In here the story is told by a man or the narrator in prison confessing his actions. The victim or the person he kill was his wife this time. Before the murder the narrator tell us that he and his wife were very happy, and together they loved and owned a variety and different kinds of pets. The narrator finds a cat on day and takes the cat in as his pet the cat was “a remarkably large and beautiful cat entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree. But the narrator soon thinks that the cat hates him and decides to take out the cat’s eye socket which he does, and in return the cat loved him not hated him. Then after that incident the narrator hands the cat on a tree branch. Then after that the narrator is reminded of the ugliness of his damaged eye. The narrator also states in the book that he was alcoholic. Not long after he hangs the cat on the branch he ends up killing the cat. After that the narrator finds another cat which “Closely resembled” his former pet “in every respect but one this new cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the breast.” Eventually, the white splotch ends up terrifying him because in it he sees the picture of a gallows. So this can be interpreted that the second cat and its changing fur as the projection of the narrator’s guilt, because the narrator thinks that the 2nd cat is the same cat as the first and

The chapter outlines nonphysical consequences of physical abuse, and the first thing that is mentioned is that abused children tend to have intellectual problems. If the children are being assessed on intellectual abilities through their academic success, can we really tell if there is a difference in intellect? The children could instead be less motivated and less willing to put forth the same effort as children that were not in abusive situations. Another question that I had while reading the chapter was whether or not there is a link between childhood physical abuse and the development of Alzheimer’s later in life. Abused children can develop depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, aggressive behaviors, and some even repress the memories. For those

Him and his wife had a cat named pluto many other animals but he was closest to the cat. The narrator and the cat were close, they had a bond. Then the narrator started coming home in the wrong mind, drunk! The narrator came home one night drunk and tried to give the cat love and play with him, then the cat clawed the guy and tried to bite him it made him mad so he took his pocket knife out of his pocket and stabbed the cats eye out. Soon the cat recovered and still the narrator was getting drunk. the narrator loved the cat alot, he noticed every time he was around the cat would run away it made his so angry!

The cat was hung and left to die, while the narrator scooped his eyes out. Then came a new cat for him to love. For the second time in a row, he came home intoxicated and caused destruction, but this time it was not just to his cat. First he approached his wife with an ax to the head and she died. Then, he was going for the new cat but couldn’t find him.

Becker’s labeling theory consists of three major points; variation over time, who commits the crimes who feels harmed, and finally a variation in consequence. These three topics tie into the child abuse report article quite well. First variation over time is a big point I the child abuse case. There is a prime example of this when they mention the number of child abuse reports in 1963 were a mere 150k and in 1993 they had risen to around three million. Another example is that at one point only physicians who saw extreme cases were allowed to report the abuse while now days it’s a wide variety of people including physicians, teachers and even civilians.

People flying around the city in their Nissan Leafs like cats water skiing behind F-16 Fighting Falcons. Cats roam the streets as cells roam the blood stream. Homeless with dozens of stray cats feasting On the garbage that the people live in.

On the eve of his death, the man becomes very drunk and lashes out on all his animals which he loves dearly, but mostly a cat named Pluto, which eventually he cuts out the cat’s eye, and the next morning he feels remorse, and is overwhelmed by the spirit of Perverseness. And hangs the cat on a limb of a tree the next morning. The man’s house burns down. And one night while completely drunk, he found a new cat resembling Pluto, but its fur white as snow. He brought the cat home, and out of frustration and anger and tried to kill the cat, but kill his wife instead, and hid the body. When he looked for the cat, it had vanished. Four nights after the murder the police came and look around the premises, and all of a sudden heard a loud cry. The police found the wife’s body and the missing cat,

He was cruel to his pets that he once loved and even carved out the eye of his most beloved pet, a black cat named Pluto. This story takes place over a few years as the narrator’s aggressiveness increases. He carved Pluto’s eye out and killed it. He then got another cat that also had a missing eye and decided to kill it too, but ended up ‘burying an ax” in his wife’s brain and putting her body in the wall of his home. The cat escaped its death and hid in the wall with the dead wife and caused the narrator to be caught. Unlike The Tell- Tale Heart, the murder was not planned.

He became terrified of the cat, becoming almost obsessed with avoiding and hating the cat. The narrator also grew angry, hating everyone and everything; including his wife who he abused. The narrator's fear of the cat intensified when he notice that the white spot on the cat's chest looked like the gallows. He started calling the cat “the

At the beginning of the story, the man was essentially “happy” with his wife and black cat, Pluto. The story is light until the man begins drinking. He has begun to like that the cat did not want to be around him and avoided his presence anymore. This is possibly due to the fact that he is not happy with his drinking. However, one night when he came home and frightened the cat, which

The issue of child abuse and neglect is serious, controversial, and is escalating in today’s society. Many people are not aware, but child abuse is rampant in our society. Many child abuse and neglect cases go unreported because a person may not know the signs and symptoms of child abuse and neglect or perhaps the person or person may feel that this is an private issue and needs to be handle with in the home and no outsiders should be involved. Without the proper awareness of child abuse and neglect and the involvement of everyone this issue will continue to raise our eyebrows.