Although the monkey’s paw may sound like a great fantasy by having three wishes, it comes at a cost. The sergeant foreshadowed the costly events of the white family with the paw do to personal experience. Not letting the paw burn in the fireplace where the sergeant had thrown it, the whites decide to keep it and take their chances do to disbelief. They wish for two hundred pounds, but nothing had happened. Is the paw a fake? Or …show more content…
Mr and Mrs White and their son, Herbert white. They also had a visitor, Sergeant-Major Morris, who ended up being more than a visitor and more of a bad memory. It all began when the Sergeant brought the Monkey’s paw into their house.
Although the monkey’s paw may sound like a great fantasy by having three wishes, it comes at a cost. The sergeant foreshadowed the costly events of the white family with the paw do to personal experience. Not letting the paw burn in the fireplace where the sergeant had thrown it, the whites decide to keep it and take their chances do to disbelief. They wish for two hundred pounds, but nothing had happened. Is the paw a fake? Or will the money come with a consequence as the sergeant explained?
One day a undecided man was walking left to right wanting to enter through the gate of the whites house. Eventually he came to the door and he gave the news to mr and mrs white that their son has been killed by getting caught in some machinery while working. Maw and Meggins, where there son had worked, disclaimed any responsibility but offered two hundred pounds in consideration of Herbert’s death. Two hundred pounds which they had wished for with the monkey’s paw but with the consequence of their sons life making the monkey’s paw real and the sergeants statement