Response 8: Tone vs. Mood

     Tone and mood, in literature, are two completely different things. In The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe uses tone to convey the point of the story. Based on the tone (the author's feelings in the story) that The Black Cat has, which is , we know that Poe is writing about a dark topic. In The Black Cat's case, he is saying that all of us have a beast or "fiend intemperance" inside of us. One example of a line that establishes the tone is ". . . perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart".