Addiction In The Black Cat

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There is a lot addiction in the world-the main two are drug and alcohol addiction. There are some people with an alcohol addiction to help cope with their problems and forget everything by drinking. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” the narrator has a drinking problem to help him forget. The narrator got addicted to “drink” and started using it because he believes his cat, Pluto, was messing with his head. He cannot remember what he has done while he is drunk. In “The Black Cat,” Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism, flashback/forward, and foreshadowing to raise the stakes.
First, the narrator starts to explain what has happened to him and what he has done.“ Yes, this story ends with my end, with my death tomorrow....I remember that night very well. I came home late, full of drink again. I could not understand why Pluto
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“...I took the axe and tried to cut the animal in two. But as I brought the axe down, my wife stopped my arm with her hand.This made me even more angry, and I pulled her hand away from my wrist, lifted the tool again, brought it down hard and buried it in the top of her head,”(Poe 3).”...I decided to hide the body in one of the walls of the cellar,”(poe 3). These explain how the narrator has changed into a very angry and mean person because of “drink”.
In conclusion, Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Black Cat”, shows symbolism like drink and the the title itself, flashback/forward for more detail, and foreshadowing to raise the stakes. Like in the story, people in the real world have addictions like an alcohol addiction and have trouble stopping. Readers learn from this story that addictions cause people to act differently than they normally would. They are also left wondering if Pluto returned from the dead to haunt the narrator or if the second cat was sent to drive the narrator mad. Readers can see that addiction can cause harm to