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W.W. Jacobs story The Third Wish take place where a lonely men live at his home how one day when he was driving. How he heard a noise coming from the forest he went to check it out and he find out it was a swan. Then he help the swan because the swan was trap. Then he see a lithe men with a golden crown all he wanted third wish. Then he got them and the men warn him the third wish will ondo his two wishes. Then his first wish was to get a wife. Then his wife was missing her sister. Then he told her that he can’t use his second wish to make her sister human. Then the men second wish turn his wife to a swan again because she was missing de a swan. Then the men never use his third wish he live happily with the swan. The theme for the story …show more content…

Because he already hated everything that he need ted. The author writes “Mr. Peter had most of the thing which he wanted and was very content with his live”(pg1). Mr. Peter had almost everything he wanted so why will he want three wish. The only thing that he really need ted was some one with him. The second way this theme fits the story is how he never need ted the three wish. The author writes “Two wishes were enough for me, I reckon. I’ve learned that even if your wishes are granted they don’t always better you”(pg3). He find out that he really need ted nothing and how he already hated everything he wanted. So that is the reason that he never use his three wish because he hated everything that he need ted. The firths craft move that supports the theme is foreshadowing. Because the author writes “ I have yet to hear of the human being who made any good use of his three wish they mostly end up worse off than they started(pg1). The way this sentence is foreshadows because it foreshadows how the men is not going to do no good in his wish. How he never wanted to make a three wish because he never wanted two undoing his two wish. This fiets the theme because he reali neted zero wish because he hated everything he

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