The Black Cat

by Edgar. A. Poe

1) Put the paragraphs in order.

(2) I've always liked animals. When I was young, we always had a lot of animals in our house, so I
used to spend most of my days playing with them and taking care of them. As the years passed, I
became a quiet and gentle man, and my love for animals also grew. I realized they were friendlier,
more honest than most men. Animals were always my best friends.

(1) I know you won't believe this story. Only a madman could expect you to believe it, and I'm not
angry. But since I'm going to die tomorrow, I'd like to tell my story to the world today. Maybe one
day, someone calmer and less excitable than me, will be able to explain it.

(5) For several years Pluto and I were best friends, but during this time my life changed slowly. I
became a heavy drinker, and my need for alcohol soon became a terrible disease. He was often
angry and violent. I started yelling at my wife, and I even started beating her, My animals also felt
the change in me. I stopped taking care of them and sometimes I was even cruel to them. But I was
never cruel to Pluto. Over time, my illness worsened, and soon even Pluto was not safe from my
violence.

(4) This cat, whom we call Pluto, was a big black cat. He was a beautiful animal, and he was also
very intelligent. I loved Pluto more than I loved all my other animals. I wanted to do everything for
him myself, so I never let my wife take care of him. I used to play with him and give him his food,
and he followed me everywhere.

(3) I got married when I was very young. Luckily, my wife loved animals too, and she used to buy
me a lot of animals as gifts. In fact, our house was always full of animals, we had birds, fish, a dog,
chickens and a cat.

2) Response

a) How was man's life? How was your relationship with the animals?
- He had a passion for animals and had a great variety of them at
home, which his parents gave him, he liked because they were
friendly and honest.

b) What was your favorite pet? How did they get in?
- His favorite pet was pluton.

c) Why did you cut off Pluto's eye?

- Because the cat had bitten his hand once.

d) Why did you finally hang the poor cat?

- I hang him because he felt the black cat loved him.

e) How did you feel after you hung up the cat?

- He felt remorse
 f) Why did you adopt the second cat?
- Because it was the animal he had always been looking for.

g) Why did I feel like killing him?

- Because he was very affectionate and reminded him of pluton

h) Does the man find a new cat? Why are you afraid of him?
- He finds a black cat with a stain on his neck, he's afraid because it's very similar to the
cat he'd killed before.

i) Where do the police find the dead wife of the man? How do you find her?
- They find her behind the wall where the husband had put her, they found her because
he hit her on the wall where she was dead.

3) Complete with story information.

1) When the man was young, he married and had many animals, fish, rabbits, dogs, a
monkey and a cat.

2) He and his wife loved animals, so he had a lot of animals at home.

3) When Pluto bit the man's hand, he felt something have gotten into his body, like a
demon.

4) The man hanged the poor animal by forming a knotted tree that attached to the
branch of the tree.

5) That same night the curtains of the house were burning, this one was burning.

6) People were surprised because there was a cat hanging by the neck of a rope.

7) The second black cat had a white mark that turned out to be a spot on his chest

8) When her wife tried to save the cat, I hit her with the axe on her head and killed
her.

9) He hid his wife in the basement of the house behind a brick wall

10) When the police were about to leave, he hit the wall where his dead wife was.

11) After the horrible cry, the police collapsed the wall and found the wife dead.

12) The mark on the cat's chest represented how I kill pluton with the rope