Wishing for desires of wanting is different from needing a wish that is beneficial. The theme of wishing for what is needed and wanted goes to the stories “The Monkey’s Paw” “What of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?” and “The Three Brothers.” These texts show different outcomes towards the theme and how all the choices affected the characters. Authors show the progression of the theme of focusing on what is needed rather than wanting through thinking, doing what is right, and knowing the consequences. In “The Monkey’s Paw” is showing how Mr. White is not thinking about what he needs and is thinking about what Herbert wants when he says, “I wish for 200 pounds,” (Jacobs, 36). Mr. White was testing the paw he was not thinking straight about the
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Jacobs wrote, “The matches fell from his hand and spilled in the passage…he turned and fled swiftly back to his room…a loud …show more content…
Sergei had a magical goldfish and had three wishes he could make upon himself. Keret wrote, “They discovered a cancer in his sister. A lung cancer, the kind you do not get better from,” (7). Sergei made his first wish for his sister’s knowing he needed to without a second thought because it was right for him to save her life. Sergei was making a wish of needing of something right while his second wish was a different story. “The second wish Seregi used up five years ago, on Seveta’s boy…three is as about as smart as he’d get” (Keret, 7) Sergei was relying on himself on making the second wish doing what was right but was doing it in wanting to do it for Seveta even if he kept saying it was for the boy to live a normal life. Sergei did this for Seveta because he wanted her not to worry about more than she would have since she would cry to him all night long. “The third wish, Sergei had not yet wishes for…he was saving this wish for himself,” (Keret, 7). Sergei had not used the third wish until a boy named Yoni recording people asking around if they had a wish from a magical goldfish what would they wish for. Sergei got afraid when Yoni got in his home thinking he would steal the goldfish away and ends up killing Yoni. “After the last wish Seregi would not have a choice. He will have to let
Jacobs wrote, “The matches fell from his hand and spilled in the passage…he turned and fled swiftly back to his room…a loud …show more content…
Sergei had a magical goldfish and had three wishes he could make upon himself. Keret wrote, “They discovered a cancer in his sister. A lung cancer, the kind you do not get better from,” (7). Sergei made his first wish for his sister’s knowing he needed to without a second thought because it was right for him to save her life. Sergei was making a wish of needing of something right while his second wish was a different story. “The second wish Seregi used up five years ago, on Seveta’s boy…three is as about as smart as he’d get” (Keret, 7) Sergei was relying on himself on making the second wish doing what was right but was doing it in wanting to do it for Seveta even if he kept saying it was for the boy to live a normal life. Sergei did this for Seveta because he wanted her not to worry about more than she would have since she would cry to him all night long. “The third wish, Sergei had not yet wishes for…he was saving this wish for himself,” (Keret, 7). Sergei had not used the third wish until a boy named Yoni recording people asking around if they had a wish from a magical goldfish what would they wish for. Sergei got afraid when Yoni got in his home thinking he would steal the goldfish away and ends up killing Yoni. “After the last wish Seregi would not have a choice. He will have to let