When reading Poe's stories it is almost chilling and disturbing to read about a cat's eye being stabbed or that the cat hanging from a tree is so sick. Or hitting your wife in the head with an ax is gruesome. It's like watching an episode of Snapped or a show on the Investigation Discovery channel. But I think this is what makes Poe such an amazing artist, all of his work is detailed giving us readers a real life experience of what the characters feel. In The Black Cat the narrator says: "Taking a penknife from my waistcoat pocket, I opened it, grabbed the poor beast by the throat and deliberately cut one of its eyes out of its socket!"(7) This quote is so chilling that leaves a vibrant image of this in my brain. But what I love most in Poe's The Black Cat is the ending where the cat sabotages the narrator's plans to keep the body hidden behind the wall it's so brilliant Cask of Amontillado I love Montresor's cold and manipulative heart when he plans revenge on Fortunato and leads him to believe he is going to Amontillado but in the end it leads to his death. Montresor's character is so brilliant when he tells Fortunato that he found a rare wine that he needs to try, using something that someone likes and using it against them is so clever. I think Poe is one of the greatest writers in history, all his stories leave your mind guessing and wanting
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