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    In the story “the monkey's paw” it is about a family who ends up with a cursed monkey paw that is said to grant three wishes to three different people. The paw grants the wishes, but not without consequence. The family doesn’t believe the general when he told them the paw was cursed, and it leads them to an unfortunate realization that the sergeant wasn’t lying. The mother tries to find a way to reverse what happened to her son, while the father accepts what happened to their son. The mother forces

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    defined as “a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen”. In the famous short story, “The Monkey's Paw” written by W.W Jacobs, there are many suspenseful scenes throughout the story. Various adaptations of this story assist in delivering the suspenseful mood of the plot to the audience; however, the video adaptation of “The Monkey’s Paw” enhances the suspense of the original version. In the video it show reasons that show how the video leaves you in a suspenseful mood

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    ELA LATE 3 weeks (-15) Block:5 Natalie Reichardt. Literary Analysis Of The Monkey's Paw The Monkey's Paw, a short story by: W.W.Jacobs “A visitor gives the white family an object that will grant them three wishes, but he also gives them a grim warning” An Eerie story about fate. Symbolism, foreshadowing, and Motif are the three literary elements that we will analyze and show how the authors used them to enhance this story. symbolism is something that represents other things, ideas,or qualities

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    s/he don’t always get what s/he want, but when you do get it, it wasn't what s/he expected. For example, in “The Monkey's Paw” the family gets three wishes and when they make a wish the become unhappy. Another example, is in “the Necklace” when the wife keeps wanting more and more stuff and after she uses that stuff she won't use it again and becomes unhappy. In “The Monkey's Paw” by W.W Jacobs and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant the characters in both stories want something and when they get

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    Dan Oguariri LA-4 Black Period 4 How Is True Horror Expressed in The Monkey's Paw? True horror is expressed in, “The Monkey’s Paw”, in innumerable distinct ways. The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs, bears upon divine will and ambition. Suspenseful events in the story create fear to the readers and also characters. The settings in, “The Monkey's Paw”, is crucial to the reader's understanding of horror. The fate of the main characters in the story symbolizes the danger of excessive demand. Every detail

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    almost deserted road a year ago was now home to multiple families of all different ages; even though the Whites could never figure out who would want to live in such a swamp. The new neighbors thought Eileen to be foolish, always blaming a decaying paw for her son’s death. “How could a grotesque monkey’s foot have any powers besides smelling like a rotting corpse?” one neighbor laughed. After many months had passed, the Whites began

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    quote “Be careful what you wish for” is often overlooked and taken for granted. In the passage The Monkey’s Paw, written by W. W. Jacobs, one of the characters makes the mistake of doing this exact thing. Mr. White is an old man with a wife and a son who is expecting a visitor one stormy evening. Their visitor, Sergeant Major Morris, tells tales of the monkey’s paw, a mummified paw of a monkey that can supposedly grant three wishes to three individuals. By making a selfish wish, the blame for a sorrowful

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    Looking at “The Tell Tale heart” and “The Monkey’s Paw” both have similar on self-hatred leads to bad incidents. Edgar Poe wrote “The Tell Tale Heart” for others to see how something simple as a murder can it huge. W.W. Jacobs wrote “the monkey paw” for others to get that suspense on how it can change very easily. Suspense means waiting at the edge of the chair for something to pop out and spook a person. Self - Hatred brings out the worse in people. By specific details that tells the story, the

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    Since the start of time, man has developed through primate advancement. Every primate has obtained distinctive qualities over a time of a large number of years. The environment has encountered a huge change in this stage. Most significant changes have happened because of the sensation of mainland float. Other such components are deforestation, characteristic cataclysms and, all the more as of late, an Earth-wide temperature boost. These progressions have brought about primates to wind up less arboreal

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    His wife sat up in bed listening. A loud knock resounded through the house. “It’s Herbert!” she screamed. “It’s Herbert!” She ran down stairs to the door. She opened the door quickly to greet her son, but to her surprise standing before her in the doorway was Mr smith the caretaker of the graveyard. ”Your son's grave has been grave robbed and his body is not there anymore.” he said in a quivering voice ¨Don't worry he is coming!¨ Mrs white yelled at him the air was still with her last words when

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