Q: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."
A:He once loved the cat and didn't want to kill or hurt it but his alcohol abuse led him to the hurting and later on hanging of his cat.
Q:2. How dose the description of the cat as "sagacious" contribute to the meaning of the story?
A:The cat noticed that the man was changing and became very moody lately, so he learned when to go to him and when to go the other way when he was around.
Q:3.What is the significance of the cat's name, Pluto?
A:Pluto is the God of the underworld and everything evil and dark , and shaddy and his cat Pluto is all black and dark.
Q:4.What is the significance of the narrator's change of disposition from docile and tender to ''...more moody, irritable and regardless of the feelings of others"?
A:Because of his alcohol addiction his attitude and disposition changed.
Q:5.Why did the narrator initially restrain himself from maltreating the cat while maltreating the other animals?
A:He loved pluto and treated him better than the other animals because he loved him and was very special to him adn dinnt want to hurt him.
Q:6.Why dose he eventually mistreat the cat?
A:Because one day Pluto attacked him in response to the way the man grabbed him.
Q:7.Decribe the narrator's feelings after abusing the cat? Why is that significant?
A:He felt sorry and wanted to be forgiven
Q:8.How dose the narrator define "perverseness"? DO you agree with his deffinition?Do you agree that it is human nature?
A:As to have a twisted and dimented mind towards things.Yes i do agree with this deffinition in this case,but i don not think that it is human nature to have a perfersed mind.
Q:9.Significance:"(I) hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; because I knew that in doing so i was commiting a sin.''
A:Basicly he is saying hung it to stop it from loving him
Q:10.Discuss the significance of the significance of the fire. How dose the narrator explain the phenomenon he Discovers after the fire?What dose the phenomenon symbolize?
A:He thought the fire was because of him hanging the cat.
Q:11.What is the significance of the fire about the new cat and his markings? What dose the cat Symbolize?
A:It reminded him of Pluto except for the whhite patch under it's body,
Q:12.Discuss:"And now was I indeed wretched beoyond the wretchedness of mere Humanity.And a brute beast to work out for me -- whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed-- a brut beast to work out for me -- for me a man, fashioned in the image of the High God -- so much of insufferable woe!"
A:He was made by God just like everyone else but yet he was below them.
Q:13.Why is it significant that the cat wont leave the narrator alone?
A:Because the cat reminds him of Pluto and thats what Pluto did.
Q:14.how dose the fact that the narrator kills his wife instead of the cat add to the meaning of the story?
A:His wife try's to stop him so he kills her.
Q:15.What is the significance of the narrator's meathod in desposing of the body?
A:He dose not want to be seen or it to be noticed.
Q: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 up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious."
A:He wanted to make sure tht no one would be able to tell that the bricks had been moved and put back.
Q:17.Why is the narrator able to sleep well after he conceals the body?
A:He knows he wont get caught.
Q:18.Significance: ''Once again I breathed as a free man.''
A:He felt free as the police were leaving his house because they did not find the body.
Q:19.Why dose the narrator feel triumphant when the police arrive?
A:Because in a way he wants attention he wants them to search and not find, but he also dose not want to get caught.
Q:20.Discuss the syntax and punctuation in the following: ''No sonner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voive from within the tomb! -- by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickley swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman -- a howl -- a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triump, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the dammed in there agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation!''
A:The scream got louder as if to call the police.
Q:21.How do you explain the ending? Discuss the Symbolism.
A:"You can never hide everything you've done".
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