Essay Comparing The Black Cat And Home For Peculiar Children

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Gothic Literature is present in numerous short stories and books, and multiple stories have a similar parts as other short stories. “The Black Cat” and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children relate by both stories including a type of pain. Also, “The Feather Pillow” and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children are similar by both stories having a monster. Finally, “Fall of the House of Rusher” and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children are common by both stories containing a mystery within them. Pain is recognizable by many forms of communication, in “The Black Cat” pain is shown by it being afflicted on the Cat. The author explains in explicit detail what is being put upon the cat, Including, “ I took from my waist coat pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket”(Poe 2). All the cat did was scratch the narrator. In Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, pain is demonstrated as a feeling or experiencing something that brings you pain. Ransom Riggs does a great job projecting that Jacob feels pain with the quote “To have endured horrors, to have seen the …show more content…

Although quite different kinds of monsters they both inflict harm on their prey. “The Feather Pillow” depicts the monster in numerous ways but in its most gruesome they discovered that “Night after night, ever since Alicia had taken to her bed, it had stealthily applied its snout to her temples, sucking out her blood”(Quiroga 2) and her husband never realized. Another monster as shown in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is explained very detailed, Jacob described it by “It stared back with eyes that swam in dark liquid, furrowed trenches of carbon black flesh loose on its hunched frame”(Riggs 37). This is the kind of monster that would be in a

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