The story I read was "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe. I found this story to be very interesting. I found that the story's underlying message is "Everyone who fights evil will be killed, but good will still come to save the day." To explain this and back this up, I will describe the characters. I will describe whether they are active, passive, static, or dynamic, and, of course, give examples to back up my reasons why they are the way they are. While I am doing this, I will describe their fight between good and evil in with the descriptions and reasons for the character's being the way they are. After I explain all of the latter, there should be no doubt that the story's underlying message is "Everyone who fights evil will be killed, but good will still come to save the day."

The husband is as good as a place as any to start. The husband is very dynamic and he is also very passive. How is he passive? Well, he turns evil. He goes deep into the trenches of evil. He goes as deep as he could possibly get. He goes in stages of turning evil. Obviously, to turn evil, you must first be good. "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My t

o make the reader comprehend. Whenever I sat, it would crouch beneath my chair, or spring upon my knees, covering me with it's loathsome caresses" (548). Pluto drives the man crazy to the point that he kills his wife and walls her up. The exact moment that good won over evil is when Pluto spoke the word of victory. He called attention to the cops and the man was caught.

strain from beating Pluto. This is a sign that he has a shred of decency still left in him, a shred nonetheless. "But my disease grew upon me-for what disease is like Alcohol! ...even Pluto began to feel the effects of my ill temper" (546). He is slowly changing from good to evil and he is doing nothing to stop it. He was once a good person and now the alcohol is taking over his soul and he is just laying down and letting it right in. He is now not able to restrain himself from beating Pluto, his once favorite pet and playmate. After the husband told us that he now beat Pluto, he then describes his going out on the town as a haunt. "One night,returning home,much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied the cat avoided my presence." (546). He is now taken over by the alcohol. He is totally "haunted," so to speak. Now it is like he doesn't know himself anymore. This is what he says after he tries to seize Pluto and Pluto bights !

The cat, Pluto, is the most interesting character in this story. I refer to only one cat. This is because I interpreted that Pluto was a supernatural being and that after he was killed, he came back as the second cat. Instead of referring to Pluto, and then, the second cat, I will refer to Pluto before death and after death. Pluto before death was very static and he was also very dynamic. He was static in the sense that he never changed; he was always a good and loving cat. He was active because he fought evil. "I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth"(546). As little of a fight as it was, it was all th he could do, and he did it. He fought the man, this evil man. The immediate reaction from the man was only to gouge out one of Pluto's eyes, but the end result of fighting evil is that Pluto was killed. Pluto after death, was the most active of all of the characters. He was

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