Wish

Be Careful What You Wish For "All get what they want in the end. They do not always like it." (Excerpt from, The Magician's Nephew) A common motif in literature is the granting of three wishes, usually resulting negatively and putting the main character in a worse position than they started off in, usually causing them to regret the decisions they made in the first place. Two examples showing this common motif include “The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish,” by Joan Aiken.…

White and his family who get three wishes. Mr.white uses his wishes rashinoly. In “The Third Wish” the main character mr.peters, also is granted three wishes. He wished of his wishes Sisley. Both of these stories end up with consequences. In the monkey's paw there are 3 more characters and there names are Herbert white as the son and Mrs.white as the wife and Sergeant-major Morris as the visitor. In the third wish there are two other characters and there names are the king of the forest, and…

Book 8, Section 2 – “Love for a soulless thing is not called friendship, since there is no mutual loving, and you do not wish good to it. For it would presumably be ridiculous to wish good things to wine; the most you wish is its preservation so that you can have it. To a friend, however, it is said, you must wish goods for his own sake” (Aristotle, 426). Premise 1: Friendship requires mutual loving. Premise 2: Soulless things do not love. Premise 3: Friendship requires reciprocated wishing of…

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…

"Be careful what you wish for." This is a common quote that most people hear many times throughout their lives. the two short stories the monkeys paw and the third wish demonstrate this quote by showing most wishes often come with unexpected consequences. These two stories are very much alike and share many similarities in both their moods, and motifs. There are many similarities between the two short stories The third wish and the monkeys paw. One major similarity they share is their…

Being Kidnapped seems like a situation that would be terrible to be in. For one kid, it was the best few days of his life and he did not want to leave. “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, is a fictional short story. Bill and Sam are the two main characters in the story. With much work they plan to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois. To do this they need two thousand dollars. These two men decide to kidnap Ebenezer Dorset’s child and offer a ransom. Bill and Sam take the…

“Words, Words, Words” by David Ives is a farce play that is about ten minutes long. It has exaggerated comical situations that are very impossible. It is an act of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, that states that “a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare”(Wiki). The three monkey characters are based upon the poets John Milton, Jonathan Swift, and Franz Kafka. T…

chess, on the contrary, in the play Herbert, his mother, and his father were not playing chess they were talking to each other and Herbert was going to work. I loved the theme of both, the short story and the play. The theme was be careful what you wish for, that was the same theme for both, but there was some other themes for each one individual to. The theme for the short…

White is to blame for his death. Even though, Mr. White may have loved his son, he should still be the one to blame for this tragedy. Herbert died in vain for a mere 200 pounds. In the short story, when preparing to make a wish, Mr. White stated,” I do not know what to wish for, it seems to me I’ve got all I want”. Instead of not wishing, and testing the…

Mr. White saw this as an opportunity, and frantically searched for the talisman on the floor; he wanted to find it before the mutilated creature could come inside the house. Finally, Mr. White found the monkey’s paw, and “breathed his third and last wish” (“The Monkey’s Paw”, line 325). The knocking subsided, and Mrs. White was filled with misery, knowing her son was wished away. Mr. White ran outside. All was quiet, all was…