Changes In Joan Aiken's Short Story 'Third Wish'

The book Who Moved My Cheese is about change and how it can affect how you are in life. Some people take changes hard while others just go with the flow. Some are ready for a change when the time comes and others want things to never change.

The seasons in the poem also can be seen as symbols of time passing in her life. Saying that in the height of her life she was much in love and knew what love was she says this all with four words “summer sang in me.” And as her life is in decline her lovers left her, this can be told by using “winter” as a symbol because it is the season of death and decline from life and the birds left the tree in winter. The “birds” can be seen as a literal symbol of the lovers that have left her or flown away or it can have the deeper meaning that in the last stages of our life all of our memories leave us tittering to our selves.

In some plays the experience of an important character changes him or her. In others the experiences of an important character leaves him or her almost completely unchanged. In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee Younger goes from being selfish to being the man his family needs. The road to becoming the man they needed was very rocky and difficult at times.

Joan Aiken’s short story, “The Third Wish,” tells a story of a man named Mr. Peters who one day comes across a swan tangled in thorns and struggling to be free. After freeing the bird he is greeted by a king who grants the man three wishes and gives the man three leaves to make the wishes with. His first wish is a wife, and the kings gives him a wife. Later on, the wife becomes depressed and tells the man that she was a swan before and wanted to be back with her sister. He uses his second wish to turn his wife back into a swan, and releases her back into the pond. He does not use his third wish after that for a while. Joan Aikens uses several craft elements frequently throughout his piece. Three main elements that stood out to me were imagery, descriptive details, and poetic devices.

This change is a positive and uplifting change of self for the protagonist in this novel.

After being crushed with deep sorrow over the death of his beloved Ligeia, the narrator moves into a decaying abbey to leave behind his lonesome house. Although he leaves the exterior of the house untouched, the narrator decorates the interior with strange but lavish furniture. “The furnishings take on the shapes and colors of his fantastic dreams” as he attempts to cope with his loss (Kincheloe). This supports the idea that the narrator would rather live in his own colorful fantasy (like the inside of his house), than engage in the dark reality (as represented by the outside of the house). Losing Ligeia meant the narrator lost his fulfillment in life; which is why his reality is now gloomy and undesirable. Not only does is the furniture an example of dream imagery, the walls of the desolate house also have a dream effect. The moving images on the walls cause the house itself to seem restless and alive. The narrator imagines this because it represents himself; always on the edge of monstrosity with each changing mood. As he hallucinates on opium, his sense of reality and fantasy is put together as one. With each furnishing, a looming memory of Ligeia haunts him as he reminances her during his opium dreams.

Joan Aikens,”The Third Wish” takes place on a dusk spring evening. The story follows the character Mr. Peters, who is driving through a forest at night. Mr. Peters finds a swan stuck in a thorn bush, and helps it out, then gets three wishes for his deed. Through the use of description and foreshadowing, the author shows the theme of selfish decisions hurting everyone.

For Louis it is the start of spring, a new life with rain to cleanse and purify the air and “patches of blue sky,” the gloomy clouds parting with the end of winter, Bentley’s death. Marriage was a cloudy shadow over her happiness but now the horizon of her life is clearing. Jig also has a cloud in her life; the American man is casting a shadow over the field of grain, her baby. The fertile field is along the river bank, her opportunity, and the mountains on the otherwise of that is her pregnancy. However there is also a tree in her way that she looks through to the mountains. This tree is deep rooted misogyny. Dictating what she does with her life. In one sense it is her won internalized misogyny that she must be submissive and please. Here it is much simpler all she must do is step around the tree and enter the light. In the other sense it is the man standing in her way much like with Louise and Bendy standing in the door way. Standing in her

The Last Wish, a fictional work by Andrzej Sapkowski, illustrates a journey made by the legendary witcher, Geralt of Rivia. For the purpose of context, a witcher is someone that is specially trained from birth to be a monster hunter. Witchers acquire many talents throughout their vigorous training which include incredible strength, extraordinary sight, strong magic resistance, and amazing healing ability. Since The Last Wish is the first book in a series of seven books that lay out the adventures of Geralt, it spends time throughout the entirety of the book to give Geralt a backstory as to why he is a legendary witcher. It begins in the middle of a conversation Geralt is having with a friend. Geralt’s friend explained that a king’s dead

This is a short story a guy who saves a swan, then is granted three wishes. He wishes for a wife, and she isn't happy being a human and would rather be with his with her sister. Mr. peters notices this, and sacrifices his other wish for the wife to live the life of a swan again. In return, the wife helps Mr. peters By saving him from getting robbed. At the end of the story Mr. Peters is found peacefully dad with his last wish and a white feather held on his chest.

Author Joan Aiken once said, “human beings and swans are better in their own shapes.” In The Third Wish, Mr. Peters realizes that you can’t change someone’s character. The Third Wish by Joan Aiken demonstrates how you can’t change someone’s character. In the text it says, “ ‘Is it so hard to be a human being?’ asked Mr. Peters sadly. ‘Very, very hard’ she answered” (Leita is the one answering).This shows how hard it is for Leita to become a human. The short story, The Third Wish, is about a person name Mr. Peters who saves a swan and gets three wishes from it. He decides to use them very wisely; his first wish is for a wife, because he’s lonely. The wish works and he gets what he wants, but soon he realizes that Leita, his wife, is not happy. She misses her old life in the forest and being separated from her sister. In the text she says, “this is my sister... I

The central issue in “The Third Wish” is that Mr. Peters is selfish in wishing for what he wants without thinking about how it will affect others. When Leita is first changed into a human, Mr. Peters is very happy because she is such a good wife. As time goes by, Mr. Peters begins to realize that Leita is unhappy. Her unhappiness include when she is lying on the bed crying her sister's name and when Mr. Peters sees her at the river hugging a swan. “Rhea! Rhea! I can’t understand what you say! Oh, wait for me, take me with you!” This shows that Leita is upset about being separated from her sister. One example of this is, he then knew that Leita would never be happy as a human. This shows that when Mr. Peters turned Leita into a swan,

The changing setting helps articulate a message of patience and perseverance, especially when describing how the setting affects the characters of Martin and Emily. Both Martin and Emily find themselves going through a similar adjustment, but they have different ways of coping with the change. Martin has to relocate his family due to changing circumstances in his job, and he doesn’t realize until after his company transfers him to New York that his wife is suffering. Emily then turns to alcohol to cope with her discomfort; this leads to issues within the walls of Martin’s home and therefore brings out Martin’s attributes of

In the story The Third Wish by Joan Aiken the genre is Fantasy. The setting of the story is in a dark woods. The main characters are Mr.peters and the Swan And the King of the forest. Joan Aiken teaches that changing someone's lifestyle dramatically is hard.

Not only is support from others motivation for change, but having an epiphany brings in a whole new light. Ralph decides to write Ben, an old friend of Ralph’s who had only known him as a criminal, to tell him about how wonderful his new life had