Edgar Allen Poe Help

[B~T]

For my HW, I need to do an Essay to compare two of Edgar's two pieces: "The Tell-Tale Heart", and the "The Black Cat". I am having trouble interpreting the "Black Cat", so if anyone can give me a few tips, it would be appreciated.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Try reading this for some insight..

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2455/is_2_35/ai_83585370/

[Legodac]

When you read, you use your brain. What you've read is your perception. Comment and write about what you read. No advice is required, only your imagination of what you percieve is needed to write an essay. The teachers want to hear what you think, not what someone else thinks.

[B~T]

When you read, you use your brain. What you've read is your perception. Comment and write about what you read. No advice is required, only your imagination of what you percieve is needed to write an essay. The teachers want to hear what you think, not what someone else thinks.

I need to come up with my own ideas, rather than what my class had discussed...

[Legodac]

When you read, you use your brain. What you've read is your perception. Comment and write about what you read. No advice is required, only your imagination of what you percieve is needed to write an essay. The teachers want to hear what you think, not what someone else thinks.

I need to come up with my own ideas, rather than what my class had discussed...

I'm not saying to disregard the current topic, but you must speak of what you know. If you don't know, that's when study comes in, then you can speak, and even then, it is still, your perception.

[guitaralex]

I just did an exam about the black cat and I got a ten!!

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Look at the link I posted for you, and then read The Black Cat again. It should make sense by then, and then if you still need help, ask specific questions and we will try to help.

* Plot summary

A decent, animal-loving man takes to drink and suffers a change for the worse, becoming an alcoholic. Imagining one evening that his beloved black cat is avoiding him he grabs it; the startled cat scratches him so he retaliates. Soon after, possessed by the alcohol, he reluctantly the poor creature by the neck from a tree. Then his house burns down and in the ruins he imagines seeing the shape of a cat imprinted on a wall... a cat with a noose around its neck.

[Legodac]

When you read, you use your brain. What you've read is your perception. Comment and write about what you read. No advice is required, only your imagination of what you percieve is needed to write an essay. The teachers want to hear what you think, not what someone else thinks.

Mr. Poe is an anomaly, trust your instincts and talk from your heart, do not go with what others say, say what you see and feel. If you don't get an A, at least you'll have your integrity.



Edit: Please do not quote yourself, edit your previous post instead. ~MsRR

[B~T]

Look at the link I posted for you, and then read The Black Cat again. It should make sense by then, and then if you still need help, ask specific questions and we will try to help.

* Plot summary

A decent, animal-loving man takes to drink and suffers a change for the worse, becoming an alcoholic. Imagining one evening that his beloved black cat is avoiding him he grabs it; the startled cat scratches him so he retaliates. Soon after, possessed by the alcohol, he reluctantly the poor creature by the neck from a tree. Then his house burns down and in the ruins he imagines seeing the shape of a cat imprinted on a wall... a cat with a noose around its neck.

I think the cat bites him instead. And what happened to the cat, I won't tell, since it is too gruesome. He eventually finds a cat similar to the one he hanged, with the exception where there is a white spot on his chest (ambiguity!). The narrator hallucinates that the white spot is in the shape of a gallow, and starts to loathe the cat. He... does something...  and hides ... it... in a wall. He notices the cat missing, assuming that it fled in terror. The police came, and discovered what the narrator did, and the cat is found in the wall!

I omitted several parts out since they were just too gruesome for MLNO.

And my teacher expects me to not just pay attention to the plot( don't compare the obvious!), but also how he writes it, and several other stuff. 

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Well it look as if you are on the right track now!