Joan Aiken’s story, “The third wish” takes place in a forest with a lonely man named Mr. Peters. Mr. Peters is in the forest while he finds a struggling swan trapped in a bush, after he frees the swan the “king of the forest” appears and he grants Mr. Peters with three wishes. One of those wishes he uses to have a wife and a swan turns into a human to be his wife. He then uses his second wish to wish her back into a swan because she was unhappy. The theme of this story is you can be lonely and happy at the same time. Also the craft moves are description and character development.
Mr. Peters shows that you can be happy and lonely at the same time because he died without a wife and happy, “ In the morning Mr. Peters was found peacefully dead in his bed with a smile of great happiness on his face” (3). Another reason you can be happy and lonely at the same time is that Mr. Peters used his first wish to get a wife. Since she was unhappy later because although she loves him she visits the pond everyday to visit her sister because they were separated. After she was …show more content…
In this story he used many craft moves but the craft moves that I am going to focus on are punctuation and point of view. The author Joan Aiken used punctuation to organize their writing and example is “as Mr. Peters entered a straight, empty stretch of he seemed to hear a faint crying…” (1). Also in this story the author uses point of view to help show what's going on from an outside perspective because it is in third person. A quote to example this is “Mr Peters ran down the hill and he neared the bushes he saw something white…” (1). Another quote is “Presently the swan, when it was satisfied with its appearance, floated into the bank once more.” by knowing what all the characters think the readers know that the point of view is in third person and that it is important so the readers know what's going on
Mr. Peters shows that you can be happy and lonely at the same time because he died without a wife and happy, “ In the morning Mr. Peters was found peacefully dead in his bed with a smile of great happiness on his face” (3). Another reason you can be happy and lonely at the same time is that Mr. Peters used his first wish to get a wife. Since she was unhappy later because although she loves him she visits the pond everyday to visit her sister because they were separated. After she was …show more content…
In this story he used many craft moves but the craft moves that I am going to focus on are punctuation and point of view. The author Joan Aiken used punctuation to organize their writing and example is “as Mr. Peters entered a straight, empty stretch of he seemed to hear a faint crying…” (1). Also in this story the author uses point of view to help show what's going on from an outside perspective because it is in third person. A quote to example this is “Mr Peters ran down the hill and he neared the bushes he saw something white…” (1). Another quote is “Presently the swan, when it was satisfied with its appearance, floated into the bank once more.” by knowing what all the characters think the readers know that the point of view is in third person and that it is important so the readers know what's going on