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    This story involves a enchanted, mummified monkey paw that is said to have the power to grant three wishes to three different people. As the Whites make their wishes, they realizes that they would have been better off without this talisman. How can a wish be twisted to bring such an unintended result? At the beginning, the Whites are waiting for a friend who is in the military that is coming over. They are especially excited because they rarely have visitors to their house. When the friend…

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    Monkey's Paw Fate

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    popular horror story with various critical essays analyzing each detail Jacobs presents. A majority of these essays present the theme of fate and its dire consequences when meddled with. This story perfectly embodies the saying, “Be careful what you wish for,” because fate does not abide by one’s rules. Fate is seen as a supernatural phenomenon unable to be controlled by man; “Much of the story’s horror devises from its depiction of fate as a mechanism indifferent to human whims and…

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    The Open Window Analysis

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    In the Monkey’s paw, Jacobs uses foreshadowing in a subtler manner. A critical example of foreshadowing is the use of the number three. Jacobs also employs foreshadowing by mentioning the previous owner of the monkey’s paw, and how their third wish was for death. This signals to the reader that the monkey’s paw is truly dangerous and should not be taken…

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    be considered evil is the cruel way it used its power to kill the son implied in this conversation between the husband and wife. “The other two wishes we’ve only had one.” Was that not enough?” “No we’ll have one more do down and get it quickly, and wish my boy alive again.” Good God, you are mad” This implies…

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    power in the world but they only had three wishes. Mr. White’s first wish was for two hundred pounds. Herber is the one that suggest this amount because they can pay off their home with this money. Ten days after Herbert’s work accident, Mrs. White has to push Mr. White to use one of the wishes to bring their son back to life. At first, it seemed like he wanted to keep all the wishes to himself, but he is reluctant to use the wish to do this because he thinks Herbert will not be the same if…

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    Herbert the white’s son had died at work, right after Mr. White made a wish with the monkey's paw to get two hundred pounds. After sergeant morris tells him that it’s a curse and snatching the paw from him. The white family is cursed and their beloved son is dead. Mrs. White insists that her husband uses the other two wishes to bring Herbert back again. So by doing that Mr. White wishes to bring Herbet to life and again and get rid of the wishes. I think that Mrs. White might take the paw just…

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    not take any blame for the accident but wanted to compensate them 200 pounds. The Whites felt that it was their wish that caused the death of their son but it was stated that he got caught in the machinery. This was all a…

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    wishes remaining. Mrs White realizes that the family still have two wishes and requests that Mr White should wish back her son to life. Mr White doesn't want to however as he realizes what the consequence can be but Mrs White nags him into it, they wake up to a knock on their door and Mrs White runs to answer the knocking, Mr White fears this wish as he realizes the consequences this wish could hold. “The Monkey’s Paw” tells how when given something so powerful, people's arrogance can take over…

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    door. He ran to the back door, but it was chained. "Oh no!" he shouted as the fire was catching up to him. He ran to the window.But the window was jammed shut. He was suddenly surround by sparks of fire. He looked at the paw and made his last wish. "I wish I was away from the earth." Suddenly he dropped and fell through the floor ashes. The people saw as the house burned down to the ground. Next morning. Major Morris went to the house filled with ash. He searched through the ashes and for both…

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    In the short stories “What of this Goldfish, Would You Wish,” and “The Wife’s Story,” by Elgar Karet and Ursulu K. LeGun, respectively, and the majority of the opinion by Justice Brennan, ”Texas v. Johnson,” characters or people do not show acceptance of others who are different. In the “Goldfish” story a young man from Israel named Yonatan decided to make a documentary of him going door-to-door to ask strangers what they would wish upon if they had a goldfish that could grant them three wishes.…

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