We are going to read a short story of Edgar Allan Poe, an

American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part

of the American Romantic Movement. Poe is best known for his
tales of mystery and the macabre, and was one of the earliest
American practitioners of the short story. He is considered the
inventor of the detective-fiction genre.
He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of
science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to
try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a
financially difficult life and career.

BEFORE READING. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. Did you know who Edgar Allan Poe was?

2. Have you read any of his stories before? If so, which one(s)?

3. Based on the title, what do you predict this story is about?

4. What is the ancient superstition about black cats?

Now, read the story

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UQ06r7tSJzsOpGoooXuLhRu6yuN_SPlb/view?usp=sharing

Choose 10 questions you'd like to answer:

1- How does the writer start the story?
2- What characteristics of his own personality does the writer describe?
3- What pet did he and his wife own? What was it like?
4- What particular behavior did the animal have towards his owner?
5- What kind of relationship did the writer have with him? And with his
wife?
6- Could you retell the incident when he inflicted the first wound on the
cat?
7- How did the man feel on the following day? And the cat?
8- What feelings started growing inside the man after that incident?
9- What even-worse crime did he commit afterwards?
10- What happened on the night of the following day?
11- What did he notice when he visited the ruins of his house?

12- What possible explanation did he give?

13- How did he find his following pet? What way was it different from he
other?
14- What awesome discovery did the writer make when taking the cat
home?
15- How did he start feeling towards the animal after that finding?
16- How did the cat start behaving?
17- In what way had the animal's mark changed?
18- What happened at the cellar?
19- How did he conceal his wife's body?
20- Did the cat make any appearance after the assassination?
21- What happened upon the fourth day of the assassination?
22- What did the man hear?
23- What happened in the end?

MANDATORY QUESTIONS:

Write a different possible ending to this short-story.

Write the unknown words here:

What did you think of the story? Did you like it? Why? Why not?