The Monkey’s Paw begins with the white family waiting for Sergeant major Morris to arrive from his “adventurous” trips. As Sergeant Morris and the whites were talking Mr. White started talking about the monkey 's paw and Sergeant Morris explained that it was a “bit of might be called magic”. But it wasn 't good magic perhaps. Sergeant Morris warned Mr. White about the dangerous magic it had and threw it on the fire, but Mr. White took it out and kept it. Morris told him if he ever wished, he should wish for something sensible. Mr. White decided to wish for 200 pounds which would help his family pay the house not knowing the consequences that will be coming next. The next day the married couple received the money and the notice
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According to “old masters of horror”, it says that Sophia Wymark, died when Jacobs was very young. I was able to make this connection because in the novel “The Monkey’s Paw, Sammy also died at a young age which symbolizes that the characters and author both experienced a hard loss. Jacobs had a very “large family and poor, their life generally dreary” (1). In The Monkey’s Paw, the Whites were poor too, this is made clear when they wished for two hundred pounds to pay the house (4).Even though they were poor both would work at a young age. As stated in “W.W. Jacobs Biography” by “Enotes”, “Jacobs entered the civil service in 1879 as a clerk” (1). This connected between the author and the novel because Sammy also worked with machinery, which explains that they both had middle class jobs to help out their family. Jacobs had a very large family in most England. He would “visit relatives in the countryside of rural east Anglia in eastern England” (old masters 1).The novel took place in a small cottage on a rural place in England.As stated in W.W. Jacobs-Biography, “he avoided publicity keeping to a small circle”. In the monkey 's paw, the whites lived alone where there was no clue in the story that there were neighbors who lived …show more content…
Peters, an old wise man was driving when he suddenly heard loud strange cries coming from the forest. He stop the car and went into the forest in search for the sound.it was a swan that was tangled in the thorns near a river. As he carefully untangled the swan a little green man appeared. The little man offered a reward to Mr. Peters for his kindness of helping the swan. Mr. Peters just asked for “3 wishes no more no less” (1). So as the little man had promised he made three features appear which represented the wishes. He first wished for a “wife as beautiful as the forest” (1). The next morning her wife, Leita appeared and he took her to church to get married. Leita was a good wife, “she was gentle and friendly, busied herself about the house garden, polished the bowls, milked the cows and mended his socks” (2). Mr. Peters saw Leita down the river with a swan as he got close to her she told him that it was her sister. Since then Leita would always be with her sister swan talking to her. Mr. Peters was willing to use his second wish to turn Leita’s sister into a human being but Leita didn’t let him. He then saw Leita suffering and crying so he didn’t think twice about it and used his second wish in turning Leita back into a swan. He then heard a laugh behind him it was “the old king looking at him with a malicious expression” (3). he asked him what will he do next turn himself into a swan or turn leita into a human and Mr. Peters answered “I shall do neither,
According to “old masters of horror”, it says that Sophia Wymark, died when Jacobs was very young. I was able to make this connection because in the novel “The Monkey’s Paw, Sammy also died at a young age which symbolizes that the characters and author both experienced a hard loss. Jacobs had a very “large family and poor, their life generally dreary” (1). In The Monkey’s Paw, the Whites were poor too, this is made clear when they wished for two hundred pounds to pay the house (4).Even though they were poor both would work at a young age. As stated in “W.W. Jacobs Biography” by “Enotes”, “Jacobs entered the civil service in 1879 as a clerk” (1). This connected between the author and the novel because Sammy also worked with machinery, which explains that they both had middle class jobs to help out their family. Jacobs had a very large family in most England. He would “visit relatives in the countryside of rural east Anglia in eastern England” (old masters 1).The novel took place in a small cottage on a rural place in England.As stated in W.W. Jacobs-Biography, “he avoided publicity keeping to a small circle”. In the monkey 's paw, the whites lived alone where there was no clue in the story that there were neighbors who lived …show more content…
Peters, an old wise man was driving when he suddenly heard loud strange cries coming from the forest. He stop the car and went into the forest in search for the sound.it was a swan that was tangled in the thorns near a river. As he carefully untangled the swan a little green man appeared. The little man offered a reward to Mr. Peters for his kindness of helping the swan. Mr. Peters just asked for “3 wishes no more no less” (1). So as the little man had promised he made three features appear which represented the wishes. He first wished for a “wife as beautiful as the forest” (1). The next morning her wife, Leita appeared and he took her to church to get married. Leita was a good wife, “she was gentle and friendly, busied herself about the house garden, polished the bowls, milked the cows and mended his socks” (2). Mr. Peters saw Leita down the river with a swan as he got close to her she told him that it was her sister. Since then Leita would always be with her sister swan talking to her. Mr. Peters was willing to use his second wish to turn Leita’s sister into a human being but Leita didn’t let him. He then saw Leita suffering and crying so he didn’t think twice about it and used his second wish in turning Leita back into a swan. He then heard a laugh behind him it was “the old king looking at him with a malicious expression” (3). he asked him what will he do next turn himself into a swan or turn leita into a human and Mr. Peters answered “I shall do neither,