While the cat's wound eventually heals, the relationship between the man and his pet has been destroyed.
But as he is swinging the axe, his wife steps in front and she is killed instead.
Now this cat, Pluto, is like no other.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Somehow, when the narrator goes to sleep that night after murdering Pluto in the morning his house catches on fire.
For each cell, have students create a scene that follows the story in sequence using: Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.