Summary The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe

The black cat

Edgar Allan Poe

This tale tells the story of an event without saying as they are called the characters tells a character, has a passion for animals, and its latest acquisition after marriage has been a cat. One day I took the cat came and drank and did not like the way you pluck one eye looking at him, then sorry but the cat was left without one of their eyeballs. Shortly thereafter decided to end the suffering of the poor cat and hanged him from a tree when he was on his way home a large concentration of onlookers in front of her, the house was burning, I woke from sleep with the cry of fire! The curtains of my bed were in flames, the whole house was on fire. After the terrible fire only a few walls left standing, everything else was completely burned, but not total loss of human lives at stake, this man went to see what was left of his house, entered and saw a wall that I call attention, it seemed it was almost intact, fixed, and could see the silhouette of the wall the image of the cat ...

After a time, their situation was relatively normal, had a home, wife, future projects, etc.. ... But one day going for a drink in a bar met and decided to adopt a cat, and took him home.

The noticed that the cat looked at him wrong, he trusted only his wife, that he gave no signs of affection, nor followed him, and listen to her. One day he came home drunk drunk and decided to kill the cat took an ax and threw it behind his back and accidentally killed his wife because she had turned back to see what this man would do, but given the ax . kill it at once.

This saw the picture, decided to make a hole in the wall, and put the corpse, covered him as if the wall was intact, followed his intention to kill the cat, but found none.

A short time later. People are suspicious of the strange disappearance of her neighbor and the police as the prime suspect incriminating. One day, the agents decided to go home to do an inspection, they found nothing, but began to hear meowing from the basement the officers were guided by them and the wall being behind the shot and saw that there was a cat meowing and a dead woman.

Characters

No names:

Principal: Secundary man: Cats Tertiary other women: the police, neighbors and agents.

By: Angie Marcela Naranjo For Teachers Corner: Liliana Vargas Castilian writer and teacher.

Bibliography: The Book The wind black cat and other stories. Author: Edgar Allan Poe October 2004 by the Mayor of Bogotá. And Maria Alejandra Martin reader plan B ....