Assignment # 12 The Black Cat

The Black Cat- 1843

This story was written a long time ago it is in writing that we don't really see any more. Throughout this whole story there is a deeper meaning or emotion. In the beginning this man is happy and tells of his nice and loving disposition his wife how he loved her and of his love for animals. This might mean in general I guess the way everybody feels in the beginning of one’s life our emotions and how we all thin our life is going. That this man was very fond of animals, and would never hurt them they were almost like his life. But in this story this man’s becomes a great drunk who ends up losing all feeling toward other things and persons, and in just ends up hurting the things he loved the most in his life his animals and his wife. But maybe this is what this story is trying to tell us, that if we are not careful we end up hurting what we love or appreciate the most in our lives. And maybe even though we or they do not mean to, they do and in the end it just too much to think you can make it all better, and go back to the life we once had. And maybe this is what the black cat is actually trying to symbolize, at least for me. That making one simple mistake and it can ruin your life and in this book this man’s mistake was drinking it was his downfall. And maybe in our lives it does not exactly have to be drinking, but drugs or a hobby we come obsessed with. That you make a huge mistake and in the end it’s just too much to be ignored or even forgiven. Many people lose their homes, jobs, families, and in worst cases like in this book this man lost his life for his stupid mistake. That if maybe people see their mistakes or are able to fix them in time their fate won’t end up bad.

This black cat was this man’s whole life; he loved this cat with all his heart. And in the end this man kills this cat and tries to find a replacement, very bad decision. This is probably what most people try to do make up for a loss they have or try and make them self-feel better with something else. But that’s just not the way it works. This man tried to kill the second black cat he had gotten, and when his wife tried to stop him he ended up killing her in one of his moments of savage. I guess many people actually do that they end up taking out their anger with someone else, and when they finally do they do not stop until it is all out of their system. This man thought he could get away with the murder of his wife, and live a happy life as if nothing had happened. But in the end he got caught and had to pay for what he had done. And, again a lot of us try to do that, to just turn around and act as if nothing happened and it may go ok for a while. But in the end it always comes back up and what goes around comes around. But it always comes back tougher and even harder or uglier than what we had actually done.