Coffeehouse #2

We have read 6 stories and out of the 6 my favorite one has to be The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. To think I wouldn’t like this story because of the murder of the cats I found myself liking the story not because of the murder of the cats but the storyline. I find it interesting how some of these cases happen, for example what drive’s someone to murder someone and the factors that are also in play. In the Black Cat we see the person murder but his alcoholism is also a huge reason behind this. The alcoholism made him murder not one but two cats and his wife out rage off because of the alcohol, of course the alcohol isn’t the only reason as this guy is already crazy because he killed someone but the alcohol also added more into the reason he had committed these murders. This story also was very straight to the point, I say straight to the point in the way that we are introduce to the person, wife and cats and almost instantly it goes to him drinking heavily and causing these murders. Also when I read the title I was expecting a story about a black cat that maybe was bad luck or something negative because of symbolic meaning behind blacks cats but no, it was just a straight murder of two cats and his wife. I had also caught on to something as I kept read this story, I quickly made a connection to this Netflix documentary called “Don’t F*** with cats”, The documentary shows a sicko who murdered kittens on the internet and posted it and later was caught and was responsible for murders on humans as well. I quickly made that connections just because they shared that similarity of them killing cats and then moving into a human like they both did.

-Yamil serrano