13. Lines 240–243: Explain why this event is important to the story's plot. Why does London choose to describe it using an objective tone instead of dramatic language? From to build a fire by jack london

The correct answer is D) The house burns to the ground the day after the narrator kills the first cat.

The event from "The Black Cat" that seems to prove the wife´s superstition about cats to be correct is "The house burns to the ground the day after the narrator kills the first cat."

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story "The Black Cat" in 1843. It was published in the "Saturday Evening Post." It's the story of a man that conceals his crime but ends up confessing his atrocity. Poe brilliantly studies the character and the psychology of guilt around him.

The other options of the question are A) the wife stops the narrator from killing the second cat in the cellar, B) the narrator hides the body of his wife within the wall of his cellar, and C) the narrator hangs the first black cat from a tree in his yard.