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    The document summarizes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" and provides vocabulary words and discussion questions about the story. It describes the narrator's relationship with animals as a child compared to as an adult. As an adult, the narrator adopts a black cat named Pluto but later harms the cat while drunk and kills it, rationalizing that he was tired of seeing it with an injured eye. The next events mirror what happened to the cat, with a fire destroying his home and the outline of a cat appearing in the ashes, indicating his guilt. The narrator's wife tries to stop him from harming their new cat but he kills her in a drunken rage instead. The document compares this

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    The document summarizes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" and provides vocabulary words and discussion questions about the story. It describes the narrator's relationship with animals as a child compared to as an adult. As an adult, the narrator adopts a black cat named Pluto but later harms the cat while drunk and kills it, rationalizing that he was tired of seeing it with an injured eye. The next events mirror what happened to the cat, with a fire destroying his home and the outline of a cat appearing in the ashes, indicating his guilt. The narrator's wife tries to stop him from harming their new cat but he kills her in a drunken rage instead. The document compares this

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    The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

    Vocabulary & Questions


    Unburthen - To unburden; to unload.
    Expound - to make a detailed statement; to explain;
    interpret
    Baroque - extravagantly ornate, florid, and convoluted in
    character or style; irregular in shape
    Rigorous - severely exact or accurate; precise: rigorous
    research
    Inscrutability - not easily understood; mysterious;
    unfathomable
    Swooning - to faint; lose consciousness
    Stupefied - crazy, magnificent, unbelievable, amazing
    Docility - easily managed or handled
    Sagacious - having or showing acute mental discernment
    and keen practical sense; shrewd
    Tinctured - to imbue or infuse with something.
    1. Describe the narrator as a child and compare it to his life as an
    adult.
    He loved animals as a child and as an adult
    2. On what does he blame his evil ways?
    alcohol
    3. Describe Pluto. How do the narrator and his wife initially react
    to him?
    Pluto was a big black cat that was all alone. Both characters loved
    the cat
    4.
    A. What does the narrator first do to harm Pluto?
    he takes a knife and pokes an eye out
    B. Why do you think he does this?

    because he was drunk and he was unaware of his actions


    C. How does Pluto react to him after this incident?
    he glares at him and stays away from him
    5. How does the narrator rationalize killing Pluto?
    he killed pluto because he was sick of seeing his cat with no eye
    6. What happens the night after the narrator kills Pluto?
    there is a fire that burns down the building he lives in
    7. What does he discover the next morning? What do you think
    this indicates?
    he discovers an outline of a black cat on the chimney
    8. How does the new cat differ from Pluto? What do you think this
    trait symbolizes?
    it has 2 eyes and it tries to trip the narrator
    9. Explain the circumstances concerning the murder of the
    narrators wife.
    the narrator wanted to kill the cat but the wife stops him and
    because he was drunk, he got mad at her and killed her.
    10. Compare The Black Cat to The Tell Tale Heart. Identify 3
    things that are similar between the two stories.
    1. both stories have insane narrators
    2. both narrators killed someone and later the police found
    out about it
    3. both lived happy lives until they encountered a problem

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