Comparing The Third Wish And The Monkey's Paw

The main factor in the different ways that the two authors got the theme across was the craft moves. In “The Monkey’s Paw” W.W. Jacobs uses revealing actions to get the main theme across. In the story one of Mr. White’s friends tried to throw out a mummified paw of a monkey because he claims it was cursed. Disregarding that it was cursed and can cause consequences if he uses it he asks for money which he would regret later in the story. W.W Jacobs shows this when he writes, “‘I wish for two hundred pounds,’ said the old man distinctly.”(1.5) this quote is just the first action of where he wishes for the money the revealing part comes later when the Whites obtains the money. The revealing action is when the Whites hear about the death of their son that goes back to their wish for money,

White is warned plenty of times about the monkey’s paw and it’s consequences by Major Sergeant Morris, who had the monkey's paw before him. Mr. White discards Mr. Morris’s warnings and decides to use the monkey's paw anyway, characterizing the use of free will. As a consequence, Mr. White’s son dies in a tragic accident while at work. The company for which the son formerly worked feels remorse for the White family, presenting them with the original wish item, a sum of 200 pounds. Mr. White tries to rationalize this event as coincidence, or fate, but really he knows that he is to blame for his son’s death; he is the one who made the choice to make a wish on the monkey’s

“The Monkeys Paw” is a heavy gothic short story that teaches a grave lesson. This story is jam-packed with foreshadowing and irony. It also teaches the important lesson on being grateful for what you have, and to be careful for what you wish for.

In the short story, The Third Wish, by Joan Aiken, a lonely man named Mr.Peters comes across a struggling swan. After freeing him, he turned into a little green man who granted him 3 wishes. Mr.Peters used one of his wishes to get a wife, and saved the others in case something went wrong. By using mood and foreshadowing to create a theme that Making wise and smart decisions can save you, he also used another two, round and indirect characterisation, to show a second theme that being a rude and selfish rude person never goes well in the end. Aiken uses foreshadowing and indirect characterization to portray a theme that being a selfish and rude person never goes well in the end.

So even there will be a consequence in the wish just make sure that when it is wished for that it is an intelligent one.      

“The Monkey’s Paw” is very slow paced and generates suspense through it. “The Monkey’s Paw” is about a monkey’s paw that grants three wishes. The bad/horror part is that it grants

From ending up dead to killing your own son, wishes can have some extreme consequences. After reading “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish” it is clear that they are similar and different in many ways. Both Characters learn lessons that are very important to their current situation. However, the two characters get their wishes in two different ways. Although they are two different stories, we can still easily compare and contrast them.

Some people think that if they could only change one aspect of their lives, it would be perfect. They do not realize that anything that is changed could come with unintended consequences. “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken both illustrate this theme. They demonstrate this by granting the main character three wishes, but with each wish that is granted, brings undesirable consequences. The main idea of this essay is to compare and contrast “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish.” Although the “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish” are both fantasies and have similar themes, they have different main characters, wishes, and resolutions.

In the story “TheMonkey’sPaw”, the foreshadowing creates tension and suspense.Which changes the meaning of the story. It also changes the conflict and mainly the perspective of the story.The most suspenseful dialogue said in the story was "The first man had his three wishes I don't know what the first two were, but the third was for death.”That's how I got the paw. This type of foreshadowing creates tension and suspense. If you had 3 wishes why would it be death. This shows that there is a twist in the story. The thing that you wish for you will get it but in a painful way. It may bring you to much pain which cannot be handled. Maybe that's why death was asked as a wish. The first two wishes brought pain which was not bearable

Stories share both similarities and of course differences . In the story, "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, the character Mr. White ends up wasting the three wishes he got by changing things back to the way things already were after his first wish. In the story, "The Third Wish" by Joan Aiken, the main character, Mr. Peters, wishes for a wife and it comes true, but he wishes her back to a swan, which is what she was before. These stories share both similarities and differences between the motifs of the story and the resolutions of the story. The motif of each story, the use of magic, is used similarly and used differently as well.

In both the short story The Monkey's Paw and The Keys of Destiny explain the theme tha fate doesn’t decide your future. In the Monkey's Paw took the paw for himself because he wanted to make a wish of his own. In the The Keys of Destiny he willingly went with the bedouin without even knowing what he had to do. The differences are conveyed using the choices the characters made in the two different stories.

different plots in this chapter follows the Monkey King and the start of his personal quest for

Each of the men were granted three wishes, however, both men were told ahead of time to be wise about their decisions. In “The Monkey’s Paw,” Mr. White’s first wish was to gain 200 pounds to pay off his mortgage (page 91). Consequently, Mr. White paid a very high price for his wish. He lost his only son, Herbert 9page 93-94). Mr. White’s second wish was to bring his son back to life (page 95-96). Well, Herbert died in a machinery malfunction, so if he was to bring his son back to life, he would be distorted (page 95-96). Mr. White didn’t want his son mutilated; therefore, he wished a third time. This time he wished for his son to stay dead (page 98). Due to that wish, the White couple had to live a life without their son. However, in the “The Third Wish,” we have a different case. In this story, Mr. Peters was very careful about his wishes. Mr. Peters' first wish was to have a wife as beautiful as the forest (page 103). He got the wish, but he later realized that his wife was a swan and could not be happy as a human. His wife, whose name was Leita, did not want to leave Mr. Peters, but truly missed her swan sister (page 104). Mr. Peters, being the kind gentleman that he was, used his second wish to benefit his wife. Mr. Peters wished his wife into the swan that she was once before (page 105), Since Mr. Peters wished for his wife to be her normal self again, he had no companion. Now,

Lev Grossman once said, “If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.” His words about making wishes can be seen throughout W.W Jacobs short story, “The Monkey’s Paw”, and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken. Both authors use the plot to prove that; wishes that are granted are never the best for you and is put throughout both short stories. However, Jacob develops the theme better than Aiken. For instance, “The Monkey’s Paw” is based on an object named the monkey's paw. The author starts of his short story with Sergeant Major Morris. Sergeant Morris went to go visit the White family after his trip from India and tells them all about the monkey's paw. He tells the White family how it gives you three

“The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken are similar stories because of their characters, and contrasting stories because of the wishes. The characters both receive wishes in a similar way, but the main characters use their wishes in different ways.