The Black Cat Annotated

Black Cat The narrator is increasing the terror and madness by making the screams scarier. The child cries starts as a soft whimpering sound. It happens so much, escalating “howl” loud and fully mature noise; puts in an “inhuman” howl like it was a beast down in the hole with half terror and half triumph. The madness and terror increases so much that the author questions if the howls are from hell by demons.
Sailing to Byzantium How the narrator feels the man is insignificant is by calling him a “paltry” thing, and paltry means worthless, unimportant, and insignificant. The author calls the aged man at things because he can’t label him as something. He calls him a tattered meaning old and torn and in poor conditions. The man aged