Summaries of Three Popular Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Summaries of the Tell Tale Heart, the Pit and the Pendulum, and the Black Cat.
The Tell Tale Heart
A man is scared by a mans eye that seems to be very unusual. He walks into his apartment and patiently plans to kill the old man. Once there he hears thumping and louder and louder, it gets until he is almost driven to insanity, thus he jumps in the room and kills to man to end the noise. Then he cuts up the body and places it under 3 planks of wood in the flooring. A neighbor heard the noise and thus calls the cops which stay and chat in the old mans house. The man who caused the murder hears the thumbing, soon drives him into insanity once again, and then reveals where the heart was.
The Pit and the Pendulum
A man seems is just doing whatever, and then one night he notices he is in a tomb. He realizes he is not in a tomb once he realizes that he can walk around in it. He measures the outside walling, then soon falls, and goes to sleep. The next morning he finds food and water and the man drinks it and falls asleep again. He believes that the water was drugged and then as he was walking notices there is a giant pit in the middle of the dungeon. The next morning there is no food or water and then he sees a giant pendulum. It moves slowly, he is tied to a plank, and the pendulum will slowly move in and kill him. Thus, he sees a rat, he takes the food and rubs it on the rope tying him down, the rat breaks the rope, and he dodges the pendulum. Then he notices the walls closing in and soon he will fall into the pit and die. However, a general ends up saving him.
The Black Cat
A man is an animal lover and buys many animals. One day he arrives drunk and kills all his animals except for his favorite a black cat. The Black cat eventually lost his eye and soon after hung by the man because of the mans drinking problem. One day he notices another black cat with a little bit of white fur on it. The man is in love with this cat too, one day he drinks again, and was about to kill it too when his wife stood in his way. The man got mad and killed his wife and when about to kill the cat it disappeared. Then the man took the woman and put her in a plastered wall. When the cops came to figure out the mess the walls ended up cracking and the cops dug further into it. They soon saw the wife of the man but with the black cat that ran away but the white fur ended up surrounding its neck as the rope surrounded the neck of the first cat he killed.
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