In the story, The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs, the author explores the theme of the consequences of interfering with fate. The Whites get a magical monkey’s paw that can grant three wishes, and so the Whites family wished for 200 pounds.When they got the money there was also news about their now dead son.The couple then decides to wish for their son back, but then Mr.White thought his son was going to come back mutilated, and wished his son dead again.
In the beginning of the story, Mr.Sargent told the family about the cursed paw and the first person who had wished with it.The text says “‘’The first man had his three wishes. Yes,” was the reply, “I don’t know what the first two were,but the third was for death.”This shows that the person …show more content…
In the end of the story, the parents wished the son back alive, just to wish him dead again.In the text it said ““For God’s sake don’t let it in,” cried the old man, shaking with fear.”This shows that he messed with fate because he revived his son from the dead and then wished for him to die again.It began with his wife yelling at him to wish for her son back, and eventually he did.Nothing happened, until they heard knocking so the wife ran to the door but she was too small to reach the lock so she ran to get a chair.At that moment The husband got terrified because the day he saw him dead he could not even recognize him, he only remembered the clothes he was wearing.So he wished his son dead again.The man killed his son 2 times, 1st on accident, 2nd out of fear.
Clearly, the author wanted to show us that messing with fate is a bad thing. Like it said before in the story “Be careful what you wish for, you may receive
In the beginning of the story, Mr.Sargent told the family about the cursed paw and the first person who had wished with it.The text says “‘’The first man had his three wishes. Yes,” was the reply, “I don’t know what the first two were,but the third was for death.”This shows that the person …show more content…
In the end of the story, the parents wished the son back alive, just to wish him dead again.In the text it said ““For God’s sake don’t let it in,” cried the old man, shaking with fear.”This shows that he messed with fate because he revived his son from the dead and then wished for him to die again.It began with his wife yelling at him to wish for her son back, and eventually he did.Nothing happened, until they heard knocking so the wife ran to the door but she was too small to reach the lock so she ran to get a chair.At that moment The husband got terrified because the day he saw him dead he could not even recognize him, he only remembered the clothes he was wearing.So he wished his son dead again.The man killed his son 2 times, 1st on accident, 2nd out of fear.
Clearly, the author wanted to show us that messing with fate is a bad thing. Like it said before in the story “Be careful what you wish for, you may receive