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How Is The Black Cat Similar
Many people have read the short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, but many people have not seen the Egyptian’s paintings with a black cat in it created by the “Kerameikos.” (www.theguardian.com) Although many people have not seen the Egyptian’s artwork, but they’ve read “The Black Cat” there are many similarities and differences. They are similar in ways that people don’t understand until they read an essay or story about both items.

The paintings of the Egyptian’s are about a black cat. The story of “The Black Cat” is similar to the Egyptians paintings because they both describe how well the cat’s get treated. The narrator loved his cat Pluto from the short story and the Egyptians loved their cat. They even let the cat do whatever

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