
THE BLACK CAT
The Black Cat is an informing story of how if you don’t drink responsibly, alcohol can really affect the way a person lives there life. The first person to enter the story is a really nice man who turns cruel and ruthless. And you can guess why this mans life went to turmoil, it’s because of alcohol. After he became a drunk he no longer cared about anyone’s feelings, thoughts or lives. He starts to mistreat everything he once loved. A memorable live from this is “But my disease grew upon me for what disease is like Alcohol!” I believe this line represents the story because it shows how the alcohol just overtook him and he didn’t have a choice. He wanted to stop but couldn’t because the disease kept spreading through his body. It shows that alcohol can be contagious in a way.
The main character, who is also the narrator, is a crazy man. He was a kind-hearted loving husband/friend. He also owned many animals because that was his passion. But then he turned into an alcoholic. When the alcohol overtook him he turned evil, mean, ruthless, and even a murder. He started killing his animals and then his wife tried to stop him, and he killed her too. Another main character is Pluto the man’s cat. He tries to help out his owner but in the process he gets himself killed because he angered his owner. His owner lost his temper because of how the alcohol had been affecting him. Thought the story the alcohol is what motivates the character to do all of the evil things he did but he has no control over it. If he could have kept control over the alcohol then he would have stayed the sweet man he was.
The theme of the Black Cat is to not drink. You can’t let the alcohol take over your life. If you not careful alcohol will take you over if you drink to much of it. It changes you into a completely different person and it will make you do things you never normally would do. So if you don’t have self control you mustn’t test yourself and drink a bunch of alcohol. Alcohol can be very addicting. Though the whole story the main character knew that the alcohol had taken him over but he didn’t know what to do. He wished that it hadn’t taken him over and that he couldn’t change it but he wished he could.