The Monkey's Paw Poem Analysis

The Monkey’s Paw and The Third Wish are similar and different in many ways. In The Monkey’s Paw, W.W Jacobs, tells the story, of a family who receives a cursed, mummified paw, that, grants three wishes. Despite, being warned by a family friend, the family uses the paw, to wish for 200 pounds however, this results in Herbet, the son of the family, dying. The Third Wish by Joan Aiken. Is the story of a man, Mr. Peters, who comes upon a swan that grants him three wishes. Mr. Peters wishes for a wife. However, seeing his wife upset and he uses his 2nd wish, to turn her back into a swan, so she can return to the forest. Both stories have themes that are unique to each and define the course it takes. In the Monkeys Paw and The Third Wish both characters got an undesired effect of their wishes. When Mr. White first got the paw, he didn’t know what to wish for. He states “I don’t know what to wish for, and that’s a fact” But, Herbert says “Well, wish for two hunderd pounds, then; that’ll just do it” , as a result, Herbert dies.This teaches, that greed, for something we don’t need, leads to harmful consequences. Mr Peter, in the story The Third Wish, asked for a “wife as beautiful as the forest”, however, when he get one, seeing her is pain, troubles him. This
The 1st man who recived the paw, wished for death, in his last wish and Mr. White lost his son. In the Third Wish however, Mr. Peters got what he wanted and was happy for some time, but felt disturbed when his wife was missing her home. She cried, saying “ I miss the old life, in the forest, the cool grass and the mist rising of the river at sunrise and the feel of water sliding of my feathers as my sister and I drifted along the stream” Mr. Peters, can’t see his wife in pain, and decides to turn he back into a swan, so she can be with her