In the excerpt from "The Black Cat", by Edgar Allan Poe, the reason why the author most likely included the underlined sentence is <em>to explain how the cat's death may be a remote factor in the fire.</em>
First the narrator, under the influence of alcohol intoxication, grabs the cat from the throat and "...cut one of its eyes from the socket!" When the cat recovers "...I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree;". The narrator wants to explain how things happen to make it clear if the black cat could be a factor of the fire.
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Points as in points of view?
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can you please give the sentence
The Setting: 'Steinbeck Country' Steinbeck published 'The Chrysanthemums' in 1938 as part of his collection, The Long Valley, a term often used in reference to the area drained by the Salinas River. The Salinas Valley is a farmer's paradise.
