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Many people have dreamed of being granted wishes, however wishes may not always produce the desirable result. Authors from around the world have conjured up many different perspectives on this subject, such as David Straker, the writer of, “Three Wishes,” and Etgar Keret, the author of, “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” These authors have two very unique perspectives on wishes and the consequences that they bring. First of all, the story, “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” by Etgar

“Sometimes painful things can teach us lesson we didn’t think we needed to know.” This is an example of the stories; The Monkey’s Paw and Tell-Tale Heart. The story, The Monkey’s Paw, tells you about an old friend of Mr. White coming to visit him and his family. He shows them the monkey’s paw and tells them that it can grant you three wishes. They take it even though the friend warns them not to and the results aren’t what they expected. The story, Tell-Tale Heart, tells you about the narrator who

“TITLE OF YOUR STORY HERE” The monkey's paw is about not messing with fate or there will be consequences. Monkey's paw is about a monkey's paw that can grant three wishes. My theme is don't mess with fate or there will be consequences My theme first gets introduced when he warns them about the consequences of the wishes this is the nces the exposition because he says he is going to wish with the monkey's paw he says it's just a bit of magic to me that doesn't sound very good. This is the rising

Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez is about a boy named Manny growing up. At the beginning of the book Manny is a “Parrot in the Oven”. This metaphor is about a parrot complaining about the heat in the shade when he’s really standing in the oven. The metaphor is used to describe someone that is ignorant. By the end of the book Manny is no longer an ignorant child. Victor Martinez’s Parrot in the oven is a Bildungsroman, a coming of age novel where the main character learns a valuable life lesson

The Wishing Fountain The sun glared down through the clouds on the small town of Elm Hill. Smells of death were in the wind this morning, originating from the center of South Park. A man lay limp at the bottom of the wishing fountain, his face and hands slowly turning blue. Water lapped up against the dead body of a middle aged man. His fingers slowly uncurled from a fist once holding a copper penny. Water splashed down on him, slowly pulling at his extravagant clothing. His golden watch glimmered

The Impact of Technology With all of the new technology forcing itself into our lives, many of us can't help but get sucked into the excitement. So as we struggle to figure out where the future is heading, we ask ourselves is it good or bad? In my opinion, it's a little bit of both. Everything we do uses technology. The computer that I typed this on is one of them. On page 28 in the textbook, there is a short story on how much we use computers daily. Our watches, ATMs, cars, TV’s, and Radio's

John-Jin by Rose Tremain is a short story with two main characters. We have John-Jin himself, who was Chinese and born with a disease that held back his growth. He would only grow in minute little bursts. When John-Jin became older his adopted parents took him to Manchester to see a specialist who then started him on treatments of growth hormone shots. Things started to look up but after ten years when John-Jin was 12, the shots took a bad affect on him and he developed Creutzfeldt and Jacob disease

The story begins with a Fisherman that does fishing for a living. He suddenly caught a Flounder with a speech ability. After the flounder plead for its life, the benevolent fisherman freed the flounder back into the water. Afterwards he informed his wife of the situation; however, his wife was displeased as she advises him that the fish has the ability to grant wishes and sent her husband back to wish for a better place to live. The water as well as the surroundings changes each time the desirous

of the story Jake is dreaming about a more luxurious car. "He needed an FM radio in something better than this '58 Buick he drove. It would have crushed velvet interior with electric controls for the LA summer." (628) However, the author uses repetition by using the same idea again at the end of the story. Once Jake is back in his car ready to head back to work, he once again imagines what it would be like to have a car with "FM stereo radio and crushed velvet interior." (630) The usage of this same

Greece is a country located west of Turkey and southeast of Italy which is famous for all the greek mythology that has been created. Within the context of greek mythology “Sibylla” or “Sibyl” means a prophetess, which within both of our poems which are based on the extensive greek mythology, a character by the name of Sibylla appears and decides to take an action that would cost her a great amount. Within the poem “The Sibyl becomes Gray and Decrepit’ By Ovid, there is a storyin which a character