The Black Cat
By Trey Becerra
Fears Seen in the Short Story
The fear of the narrators dark past is seen in the story "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe when the second black cat is introduced in the story to resemble the bad deed that the narrator had done in his past to his first cat pluto.
quotes explaining fear
"My next step was to look for the beast which had been the cause of so much wretchedness" (poe 27)
"And a brute beast -- whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed" (poe 21)
"I brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes. This circumstance, however, only endeared it to my wife, who, as I have already said, possessed, in a high degree, that humanity of feeling which had once been my distinguishing trait" (poe 17)
Fear seen in the media
The fear of ones past is still relevant today and can be seen in the movie Non-Stop when an unidentified person try to frame an air marshal due to his dark past of alcoholism and pervious mishaps in his jobs.
Explanation
An air marshal was being set up by an unidentified texted while in flight. Due to his dark past of alcoholism and previous mishaps in his job led him to be an easy target for the unidentified person. he wasn't believed by the outside world that he wasn't involved thus almost killing him and everyone on that plane, all because of his past.