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The Black Cat

     He has a gentle and kind personality and has loved animals since he was young. After he married to his wife, who loves animals, he has kept a wide variety of animals. Their clever and beautiful black cat Pluto, was his favorite. However, after a while, he drowned in alcohol and have temper tantrum. When he was in a bad mood, he started hitting his wife and abusing animals. 
     Nevertheless, he didn't strike his favorite Pluto. However, one day, when he was bitten by Pluto when he handled it roughly, he scraped off one eye of Pluto. Pluto eventually recovered, but Pluto began to avoid him as any other animal do. At first he was sad because Pluto avoided him, but eventually his feelings were filled with tantrums. 
     Finally, he hung a rope around Pluto's neck and hung it on a tree to kill him. Then that night, his house was hit by a sudden fire and all his property was burned.

     I couldn't believe he has changed so drastically. I have some black cats in my parents home too, I could sympathize with him a little in term of being bitten. It makes me frustrated too, but I'll never hurt them. In Japan, people often says "Don't drink so much you end up making choices that you regret later", in Japanese, 「酒は飲んでも呑まれるな」. I think so strongly and I have to be careful.



The Black Cat Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe: annotation
著者 : Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe
Independently published
発売日 : 2020-03-01
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