The Monkey's Paw Short Story

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The two short stories The Red Room, and The Monkey’s Paw are two stories the give the mood horror and mystery. The two stories are told in one third person and the other in first person. The author in The Red Room tells this story in first person, the author is using his main character in the story to help with the mood for the reader to feel what the main character is feeling. In the story The Monkey’s Paw in third person to help the reader's mind go the way he wants it to go. In the short story The Monkey’s Paw the author tells the story in third person.

He is like an outsider looking in on the action without any input. In the story he is telling us things that happen not entirely, but he hints things to us. The author of this story is using

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