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    “Be headstrong‚” Dad says. In “The Monkey’s Paw‚” by W.W Jacobs‚ it shows however many warnings or reasons given‚ stubbornness will keep pursuing. “ ‘If you don’t want it‚ Morris‚’ said the old

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    ¨I wish for this day to start over!!¨ I yelled. The monkey’s paw shook in my hand‚ I dropped it. Then time just seemed to freeze the monkey’s paw was slowly fading disappearing you could say as it was getting closer to the ground. My wife‚ Mrs.White was getting closer to opening the front door scared of what my eyes might see I closed them. Wishing everything went away I opened my eyes to see a white light had filled the room but still very slowly like everything else moving. ¨NOOO!!!¨ I cried

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    The Monkey’s Paw By: Hrithik 1. What is the conflict and the climax of the story? There is a man vs. self-conflict when Mr. White uses the paw to make his first wish he experiences an inner conflict because he is afraid of the consequences‚ while at the same time there is an external conflict with both his wife and his son Herbert who keep urging him to make the wish. A man vs. supernatural conflict is a conflict between a character and a force of magic. That is‚

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    Jacobs ¨The Monkey’s Paw‚ the first man who had the monkey’s paw was an old fakir who had put a spell on it to show that fate ruled people’s lives and if you chose to interfere with it then it would bring fate upon themselves. The old fakir had already used two out of the three wishes and wished for his third wish to be death. So the old fakir died and that’s how Sergeant Morris got the paw. Mr. White was hesitant about using the paw because he thought that the magical paw would not work. So Mr

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    “‘I’d like to see those old temples‚ and fakirs‚ and jugglers‚’ continued Mr. White. ‘What was that about a monkey’s paw or something that you started telling me about the other day‚ Morris?’”(Jacobs‚ ln. 41-43). “The Monkey’s Paw” is about a monkey’s paw that grants three wishes to three individual men and how the last man uses his wishes. Between a story and a movie format‚ there are similarities and differences between the setting‚ characters‚ and how suspense is built. First off‚ the setting

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    a happy and cheerful story. In “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacob contains three wishes but‚ the story is about horror . “The Monkey’s Paw” is a horror tale because of the supernatural‚ suspense‚ and spooky setting. The story “The Monkey’s Paw” has elements of the supernatural‚ so it qualifies as a horror story. An example of the supernatural from the story is when Sergeant Major Morris told Mr and Mrs. White and their son Herbert about the paw. The paw is the element of supernatural in the story

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    Suspense! “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacob is very thrilling to watch. The video bring attention and is very descriptive. In this story the attention grabber is the suspense brought through the characters and the monkey’s paw. The video adaptation‚ of W.W. Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw” enhances the suspenseful mood of the original story. The video of “ The monkey’s paw” is more suspenseful and makes the watcher want to keep watching it. The video is more breath taking because in the video it show

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    this statement. The Monkey’s Paw‚ by W. W. Jacobs‚ is a short story about Mr. and Mrs. White‚ who adored their only son Herbert‚ and lived a happy life. There expectations of wishes on the monkey’s paw were different than the reality. All the Whites didn’t believe in the monkey’s paw‚ but were intrigued. Herbert thinks it would be a good idea to see if it would work so he suggested£200. Mr. White also wanted to get rid of his mortgage‚ and wished on the monkey’s paw thinking it was a great idea.

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    When comparing the Monkey’s paw and the Simpsons Parody video there are many similarities but there are many differences. When comparing these two videos one of the similarities in both The Monkey’s Paw and in The Simpsons video is the way the protagonists are written‚ they are both greedy in the beginning. When Mr. White first receives the monkey’s paw he uses it for money when he says “I wish for two hundred pounds” (Jacobs‚ 172). When Homer receives the paw while he is in the living room with

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