The White family is given a monkey’s paw which will give them three wishes. They make a wish for 200 pounds to pay off their house. Their son dies because of the wish and they receive their 200 pounds as settlement thus making them responsible for their son’s death. The monkey’s paw destroyed the White family from inside out. In many
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story in which the author’s message to the reader is you have to be careful what you wish for. The story is about a family who was presented with a magical paw that has the ability to grant three wishes. With each wish‚ although seemingly harmless‚ resulted in severe consequences. The author builds suspense‚ tension‚ and fear through the setting‚ plot‚ and the events that occur. Setting‚ suspense‚ and fear make “The Monkey’s Paw” a good horror story. The setting of “The Monkey’s Paw” has common
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paw to wish something‚ that person will obtain a conflict relating to the wish. One theme of the story is that greed is bad and everyone has a little bit of greed inside of them‚ for example‚ when the White family is gifted the opportunity to get any three wishes they desired‚ their greed starts to take over‚ and this is when fate kicked in. While some might argue that not EVERYONE has greed‚ and that if they were gifted with the opportunity to have any three wishes that they would wish for something
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no use. He now wanted to reach home to see his mother’s face after such a long time but he had to accept that now it was of no use because it was impossible for him to reach home in such condition. Among his last three wishes was “My third and last wish is that both my hands be kept dangling out of my coffin.” He wanted to tell people that he wasted his life earning riches but couldn’t take anything with him. Let people realize that it is totally a
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Jacobs did an amazing job portraying suspense by using words and phrases that make the story exciting. The suspenseful mood of the story also makes you nervous. There were many parts of the story when I found myself getting nervous for the characters and feeling their pain. One part specifically is when the visitor from the place Herbert white worked came and told
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first Tukin hesitated and started to walk away. Then he started thinking “what if it really worked I could wish for whatever I wanted”. He turned around went and picked up the box and covered it with his jacket and walked all the way home. He sat the box on the kitchen and went to the bathroom to take a shower. He came out and sat suspiciously in front of the box. He inhaled deeply and said “I wish for a new red candy paint Ferrari Spider with two million dollars in it. His eyes opened wide and he screamed
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because the father was laughing off his fears. There house was steeped in shadows and darkness. The characters contribute to the theme of the “The monkey’s paw” because they control what happens in the story. Mr.white got scared when he took his first wish because the paw moved. At the beginning of the story sergeant-major morris warned mr.white about the consequences of using his 3 wishes. At the end of the story herbert’s mother was depressed because herbert dieing was the consequence of one of the
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represented the center of her universe‚ her source of energy etc. and absence of her “Sun” would certainly affect her happiness. She wishes her husband would never go away but staying by her side forever. This following metaphor explained it clearly “I wish my sun may never set‚ but burn…” she referred to her husband as being the sun‚ and by saying she wished her sun may never set‚ represents her wishes of her husband to stay by her side. c. “My sun is gone so far in’s zodiac” visual image‚ she uses
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have found out that their only son has died in a machinery accident at work and they are given 200 pounds as collateral. I strongly believe that Herbert’s death resulting in the collateral money was only made possible because of Mr. White’s wish. There is no possible way that this event could have been foreseen. Especially the exact amount of the money that Mr. White wished for. There’s something freaky going on and that monkey
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is used to grant 3 wishes.” “How might it work?”‚ said Bakul. “You hold it up and make your wish”. Bakul chose to wait until he got home to make his wishes. When he got home‚ he showed his wife‚ daughter‚ and son what he had got from the fakir. His daughter‚Ganda‚ and son‚ Daha looked at it in amazement‚ but his wife‚ Ladia didn’t believe that it would work. “What should I wish for?”‚ said Bakul. “You should wish for all of us to travel somewhere around the world”‚ said Daha. “That’s a great idea”
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