The Black Cat

Being a Cripple, Greasy Lake, Infant Books, Nickel and Dimed, Pedagogy of The Oppressed, Stephen King, Thank You Ma Am, The Plastic Pink Flamingo: a Natural History, The World Is Flat, Why Nations Fail, 1984, A Raisin in The Sun, Animal Farm, Beowulf, Fahrenheit 451, Frankenstein, George Orwell, Hamlet, Into The Wild, Lord of The Flies, A Modest Proposal, All Quiet on The Western Front, Allegory, Antigone, Between The World and Me.

The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe

There are major differences between the film we saw in class and The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe. The film had added effects to get the viewer’s attention. The film also let out important parts that were in the short story. The short story gave the reader a better background for character analysis. Although … Read more

“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the single effect was the most important aspect of a short story, which everything must contribute to this effect. Poe’s gothic tale ‘The Black Cat’; was written trying to achieve an effect of shocking insanity. In this first person narrative the narrator tells of his decline from sanity to madness, … Read more

John Updike’s A&P and Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cat

There are numerous ways to write a story. It is up to the author how he/she wants to portray their story and write in specific tones that reveals to the reader whether it is meant to be read dripping with distain, or read in a gleeful way. In both Updike’s A&P and Poe’s The Black … Read more

The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat

Horror and suspense-filled movies, books, and stories are Americas favorite form of entertainment. One of the most famous American writers is Edgar Allen Poe who wrote the two famous stories The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black Cat. In the The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black Cat narrative and imagery is used to express … Read more