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How to solve a problem or deal with a problem? Sometimes you ask this question, everyone has problems, some worse than others. No matter what type; sometimes we do not know how to deal with it and we find it difficult. Sometimes you wonder why I have so many problems, most say it is bad luck, say it is natural, but the major cause of your problem, is you, not specifically you, sometimes you have the option to choose, and that choice que be good or bad and depending in that choice you can cause someone who does not deserve problems. Some problems could be solved somehow, but others simply have to overcome. In many stories and movies usually the characters face a problem of some sort, such as a kidnapping, there are some criminals are caught somewhere etc. ... but that's more on the stories of suspense. Two examples of such problems include The Monkey's Paw or Cujo.

First, The Monkey's Paw, in this story the main characters in this case Mr. and Mrs. White and their Adult Son Herbert is with Sergeant Morris and arrives with an amulet which apparently granted three wishes. Sergeant Morris warned about the consequences but Mr. White ignored. Mr. White wanted to
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Tadder began to dehydrate that make Donna get scare. Donna doesn’t know what to do and with Cujo waiting, Donna can´t think in anything but by the circumstance it takes courage and she get out of the car. She takes a bat of baseball and sees the dog. But at the end, result that Tadder died from dehydration. I think this was a more serious problem that of “The Monkey’s Paw”, because Donna could not know he was going to pass out good or was bad, because in this story Donna did not know that Cujo had changed, she just start to think a way to solve the problem in a desperate time. And in the story of “The Monkey's Paw” Mr. White had options, she could leave the amulet and continue their normal life or could ask the desires facing the

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