1. Discuss the significance: There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of man.”
answer: Showing emotions to something and not to others
2. How does the description of the cat as “sagacious” contribute to the meaning of the story?
answer: It helps to explain how much the cat loved him
3. What is the significance of the cat’s name, Pluto?
answer:Pluto is god of the underworld and like, the other cat's were sent from him.
4. What is the significance of the narrator’s change of disposition from docile and tender to “…more moody, more irritable and regardless of the feelings of others”?
answer:He became mad at the cat
5. Why did the narrator initially restrain himself from maltreating the cat while maltreating the other animals?
answer: because he loved him and had a special bond with him.
6. Why does he eventually mistreat the cat?
answer:because he wasn't shoving him the love he had at first, so he didn't like that and started mistreating him.
7. Describe the narrator’s feelings after abusing the cat. What is the significance?
answer:Because he had remorse but seen pear evil
8. How does the narrator define “perverseness? Do you agree with his definition? Do you agree that it is human nature?
answer:I do not think it is human nature it is common scence, because he know what he is doing.
9. Significance: [I] hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason for offence; because I knew that in doing so I was committing a sin.”
answer:That he really didn't care.
10. Discuss the significance of the fire. How does the narrator explain the phenomenon he discovers after the fire? What does the phenomenon symbolize?
answer: It symbolizes total destruction it was rage and emotion that the fire was creating.
11. What is significant about the new cat and his markings? What does the cat symbolize?
answer:It reminded him of Pluto except for the whhite patch under it's body.
12. Discuss: “And now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere Humanity. And a brute beast to work out for me – whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed – a brute beast to work out for me – for me a man, fashioned in the image of the High God – so much of insufferable woe!”
answer: He feels powerful after what hes done. He now thinks that he is evil and as far away from God as possible.
13. Why is it significant that this cat will not leave the narrator alone?
answer: Its testing him to see if he will act the same way he did to the other cat.
14. How does the fact that the narrator kills his wife instead of the cat add to the meaning of the story?
answer:He doesn’t care what he kills anymore, now he does it without a reason.
15. What is significant about the narrator’s method of disposing of the body?
answer:He puts her body in an old cellar , Chimney.
16. Discuss the significance, “I made no doubt that I could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole thing up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious.
answer:He was going to undo the wall and place the body there so knowone would ever find the body of his dead wife.
17. Why is the narrator able to sleep well after he conceals the body?
answer:Because the cat that had been bothering him so bad had seemed to of disappeared.
18. Significance: “Once again I breathed as a free man.”
answer: He feels free now that he doesn't have that cat torturing him all the time.
19. Why does the narrator feel triumphant when the police arrive?
answer:Thinks his work is so good no one will find out the body of his wife was in his wall
20. Discuss the syntax and punctuation in the following: “No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! – by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into a one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman – a howl a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the dammed in their agony and of the demons that exult in damnation!”
answer:The exclmation mark dose belong because he is yelling it out in to the open.
21. How do you explain the ending? Discuss the symbolism.
answer:You can never hide everything you've done.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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