Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Discussion Questions

1.discuss the significance of the following quote: " there is something unselfish and self-sacrificing about the love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frewuent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of man."
-if you have a pet, then you know it will always love you.
2.what is the significance of the cat's mane Pluto?
-dark, distant, cold, small
3.why did the narrator initially restrain himself from maltreating the cat while maltreating other animals?
-he was not a full blone alchohlic at the time.
4.why does he eventually mistreat the cat?
-he looses his restraint
5.describe the narrators feelings after abusing the cat. why is it significant?
-unbothered, he cant hold himself back
6.how does the narrator define "perverseness"? do you agree with the deffinition? do you agree that it is human nature?
-evil thoughts that go on in his head, no, they can be both
7. discuss the significance of the following quoe " i hung it because i knew that it had loved me, and because i felt that it had given me no reason of offense; because i knew that in doing so i was commiting a sin."
-he was trying to hide his guilt

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