Monkey's Paw Theme

"The Necklace," "A Monkey's Paw," and "The Gift of Magi" all have a distinctive technique that leads to a deeper meaning of the story. The technique of "The Necklace" is represented by symbolism of the necklace. In "A Monkey's Paw," the technique that is seen is foreshadowing. In "The Gift of Magi," irony is the technique that is noticed throughout the story. All three short stories deal with the irony of consequence. Each story involved a major decision and in each case the result of the decision was incredibly unexpected. Through symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony the authors conclude that what's inside the heart is far more important than material wealth.

Everyone has a desire, something that they want to achieve or obtain for them. Whether it is ethical or immoral, having desires is almost inevitable. Sometimes these desires make people go through tough times. Tragic occurrences such as death and broken relationships shape the lives of people positively or negatively. In the following essay, “Many Rivers to Cross” and the short stories, “Two Kinds” and “Everyday Use”, the protagonists of these texts struggle to achieve their desire, but because of those struggles the main characters do eventually come to a revelation.

The W.W. Jacobs version, and the Simpson’s version of The Monkey’s Paw were both similar and different. For example, one difference is, in The Monkey’s Paw story by W.W. Jacobs, the wishes made all had bad outcomes. Specifically, In the W.W. Jacobs version, a man comes to their house and tells them Herbert died and they would be given, “[t]wo hundred pounds...” (Jacobs 174). This evidence proves, how the White family wished for two hundred pounds, then the received the two hundred pounds, at the cost of their son’s life. On the other hand, in The Simpson’s version, they became rich and famous from their wish. Overall, In the W.W. Jacobs version of The Monkey’s paw, the wishes all had very bad outcomes; but the Simpson’s version had fairly good

If the reader looks closely, the only part that is being told of this story is the middle, that is to say neither the beginning (the origins of the monkey paw) nor the end (Mr. White final wish and what followed). In the first case, the reader is free to choose how much time passed since the arrival to the monkey paw to the White's house, and even more what happened during that time. There are other factors that can influence the reader's mind in the beginning such as the influence of alcohol over the veracity of the story. In the other case, the reader has to come to an ending based on the only clue that is behind: the knocks on the door.

“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

The last wishes in both stories are used in drastically different ways. After Mr. White finds the paw, which he dropped, he wishes and “the knocking ceased suddenly…” (Jacobs). Since the knocking stopped, Mr. White’s last wish was to make is now alive son go away, which means that his last

The book, The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett is a fable. Hartnett weaves a story about two Romani boys who find themselves in a zoo, which has talking animals. One of its most essential themes, even more so than freedom, is trust. The last line of The Midnight Zoo emphasises this, as the eagle trusts who he sees is Alice. Hartnett expresses the importance of trust by showing how it can impact us and make us peaceful with ourselves.

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.

“A Rose for Emily,” “A Worn Path,” and “The Lottery” by William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Shirley Jackson all have similar writing styles in their literature. In these three short stories the authors all use contrasting nature within their literature to predict the outcome and to learn for the upcoming events in the readings. The authors take subliminal phrases and subliminal symbolic text to have the reader become more attached and understand more of what the characters, setting and theme of the story has to offer. Using these three stories the reader of this essay will understand and grasp the symbolic meanings in text of each these short stories.

This essay was meant to show you that there are certain things that are in stories that you may need to think twice about.These things might help you understand the story better, or maybe even determine what could happen next in the story. All in all, this essay was to bring up some ideas that you may not have caught while reading these stories, and hopefully even helped you understand some things that just didn’t make sense before, make sense

Empathy is fundamental to institute showing sympathy and understanding towards other people. The two stories, “The Lottery” and “The Interlopers”, are centered around solidifying how significant empathy is. The authors in both of the stories use specific literary devices to get their message across. The techniques they use include situational irony, characterization, and pacing. Each of these devices help create the mood of their stories, which aids in your understanding of why empathy is vital in human nature.

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,

The two short stories that I have chosen are The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and The Storm by Kate Chopin. These two stories in particular doesn't have many things in common as far as setting goes, but they do have some significant differences between the two. The author are from two different background and different eras In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two short stories and hopefully bring something to the reader's attention that wasn't there at first.

The third and final major element of the story ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ by W.W. Jacobs is the unstoppable. There are many things that are unstoppable in the story. The wishes can not be unwish after,

Short stories can share themes, motifs, symbols, consequences, and plot lines, even if there is never any intention to share a common element between the stories. The stories can be written close together or in different decades and still be linked to the one another. They can also be worlds apart with different meanings in the end, but that does not stop them from having similar ideas expressed within them. The following three stories, “Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by DH Lawrence, and “The Lady in the Looking Glass” by Virginia Woolf, are three totally different stories that share common threads that make them the stories that they are.