Wish

what may we wish?” questioned Archie; he had been speechless until now. “Anything at all, just be mindful and precise when speaking your wishes.” “And how may a wish be asked?” enquired Myrtle.

that gets a magically cursed paw that grants three people three wishes. They wish for money, but it didn't come in the way they expected. Their son ends up dead, and Mrs.White goes crazy. She misses him so badly, she ends up wishing for him back. When she makes the wish, she doesn't specify what for he should come back in. Then Herbert's corpse ends up knocking on the door. In the end, Mr.White uses his last wish to wish Herbert gone. To start, The Sargent tells Mr.White the paw is dangerous:

If you were granted a wish what would it be? In the passage, “The Discontented Stonecutter” by Bayard Taylor was about a poor stonecutter who cut stone all day and he had small wages for the work he did. The stonecutter wished that he was the richest in the world. The stonecutter truly desired that he was rich and powerful and achieved it by greed, jealousy, and wishes. This passage will show a twist in the character, in which he changes from being discontented to contented. First, he wished to

wishes. Mr. (Herbert’s dad) and Mrs. White (Herbert’s mom) makes the second wish to bring Herbert back, which is when the knocking started. Mr. White then makes the third wish, which is unknown to us, the reader, and the knocking then stops. Question is, was Herbert at the door and in what form was he in? Herbert was at the door and he was in the form of a spirit. Mrs. White was talking to Mr. White about using their second wish to bring Herbert back to life. But Mr. White didn’t want that. Here is what

“He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives and those who interfered with it so did their sorrow” (paragraph 26). This evidence reveals that the paw is cursed by a fakir who wants to teach people a lesson about interfering with fate when they wish for things that aren't destined to happen. Because of this the reader can conclude that the wishes will not have the desired outcome. In addition, when the whites inquire more about the paw, Morris throws it into the fire and warns them of the consequences

The story begins on a dark story night, as the three members of the White family were relaxing and waiting for someone on their cozy home. Herbert White and his father are playing a game of chess. As the game comes to an end with Herbert as a winner, a family friend Sergeant- Major Morris came over for a visit. They welcome him with a whisky, as he was telling stories about his exploit abroad. Mr. White is interested in his stories and eventually returned to the subject, the monkey's paw that Morris

White family in the first place. All of the events that took place after Mr. White took the monkey’s paw can be traced back to him. Additionally, Mr. White made the first wish even though he was warned many times there was a huge risk. This fact is significant because Mr. White clearly knew that there was a risk in making a wish but he chose to ignore it and hope the benefits were worth it. Sergeant Morris even said that the paw was made

The character in “The Monkey's Paw” by W. W. Jacobs that most affected the outcome of the wish was Mr. White. Mr. White was the one who instead of letting the paw burn like Sergeant Major Morris wanted, took the paw for himself. If he chose not to say “I should like to see those old temples and fakirs and jugglers,”- "What was that you started telling me the other day about a monkey's paw or something, Morris?(Jacobs 2)” He wouldn't have to paw in the first place and Herbert would not be dead. In

consequences of the actions doing something to repair the actions will finally in any way let’s free of guilty and help pick up the pieces of life. The best warning quote was on Morris: “If you must wish, “he said gruffly, “wish for something sensible.” ("The Monkey's Paw", short story) otherwise; a death wish will finally

“Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it”—Anonymous. In W. W. Jacobs’s horror short story, The Monkey’s Paw, the author basically teaches us about how dangerous one’s wish and tampering of one’s fate can be. Because of the dangers, one must be careful since they may regret it for life and bring sorrow upon them. Throughout the story, there are certain themes that sum up most of the story: dangerous wishes and interference of fate, the clash between domesticity and the outside world, and