The Black Cat Questions and Answers
The narrator tells us that he never had any troubles until he began drinking alcohol, yet there is evidence in the story that alcohol isn't the only thing to blame for his sociopathic actions. Describe other things we learn about the author that likely contribute to his slide into violence and insanity.
As the story opens, the narrator is in jail, awaiting his execution on the following day. Find and write two of the lines from the story that show this is true.
What is the setting of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe?
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," what does the second cat (with the patch on his neck) remind the narrator of?
What made the narrator kill his wife in "The Black Cat"?
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," how did the narrator change over the years?
How does "The Black Cat" relate to Edgar Allan Poe's life?
Is the narrator in "The Black Cat" remorseful?
In "The Black Cat," what or who is the conflict between? How does the conflict have an effect on the reader?
What is the climax of the story "The Black Cat"?
Briefly describe the main characters of "The Black Cat."
In “The Black Cat,” the narrator capitalizes certain nouns, such as Fiend Intemperance, Gin, Rum, Alcohol, and Horror. Why does Poe do this? What does the capitalization show us about the narrator's state of mind?
In "The Black Cat," where is the narrator as he writes this story?
How do the police find the narrator's wife's body in "The Black Cat"?
What is the tone and mood of "The Black Cat"?
What is the significance of the fire in Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Black Cat"? There's a symbolic phenomenon that I don't seem to understand.
How is the narrator caught by the police in "The Black Cat"?
Why did the narrator get caught by the police in "The Black Cat"?
What is the significance of the cat's name, Pluto, from "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe? I was thinking that since Pluto is a small planet and the narrator, he took out Pluto's eye which is small that that's what might be significant about it.. Or since Pluto revovles around the Sun which Pluto does in the story follows the narrator around..
What is the mood in "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe?
"The Black Cat" features a heavy use of dashes that create long, cumbersome sentences, and accentuate the fragmentation of the narrator's thoughts. Why would Poe use this technique?
What is "the spirit of perverseness" that the narrator mentions in "The Black Cat"? How does it affect his personality?
How does the narrator's wife feel about cats in "The Black Cat"?
How does the narrator describe himself in "The Black Cat"?
In "The Black Cat," how does the narrator describe himself?
Look closely at the passages involving the narrator's original household, the fire, and the impoverished dwelling/damp cellar at the end of the tale "The Black Cat." Symbolically, how might these three elements be connected to show a larger message about the narrator's mental state?
How does Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" reveal an unreliable narrator?
What is a theme from the story "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe?
In "The Black Cat," how does the narrator feel about what he did to the cat?
What event from "The Black Cat" seems to prove the wife's superstition about cats to be correct?
In "The Black Cat," why did the narrator kill the cat ?
What causes the narrator's feelings for Pluto to change from love to hate?
Why is it important that the narrator cuts out Pluto's eye?
Explain what Poe means in the following phrase, "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?"
What is the narrator's immediate purpose in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat"?
The main portion of "The Black Cat" is told in flashback and the setting is the narrator's home. What is the alternate setting of the story?
What is the point of view of "The Black Cat"?
In "The Black Cat," compare the second cat with Pluto. How were they alike? How were they different?
What is the role of the women in "The Black Cat"?
What is a strong thesis about madness in Poe's "The Black Cat"?
How does Edgar Allan Poe reveal character in "The Black Cat"?
What is the rising action in the story "The Black Cat"?
What is the significance of this quote from "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe? "There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."
Why did one wall remain after the fire?
What is the message of "The Black Cat"?
Why does the narrator in "The Black Cat" kill his wife?
What is the plot of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe? Please describe the exposition, the rising action the climax, the falling action, and the resolution.
In "The Black Cat," what is the significance of the cat's name, Pluto?
What does the wife symbolize in "The Black Cat"?
How is the narrator in "The Black Cat" unreliable?
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