You Wish

at the moment you least expect it. He is very smart for his age, and always makes me smile whenever I see him. He always asks questions, and even though sometimes I may not have an answer for him I try to come up with the best response possible. I can now say I have acquired a totally new perspective for mother hood, and love being an aunt. I have enjoyed teaching him the little things such as counting numbers or even the letters in the alphabet. One day I’ll be able to tell him “You changed my…

outside like her professor told her, and have some fun outside of the library. She also desired that she had been a more humane teacher. These were little wishes we had wanted but didn’t have. Ms. Vivian actually had two types of wishes which are: her wish about her social life and herself as a teacher and the other was what she wanted to do if her heart stopped beating. While Ms. Vivian and her primary nurse, Susie, were eating popsicles Susie told Professor Bearing that she had to think about…

Have you ever wondered what you would wish for if you got three wishes and what the wishes outcome would be? Well in the stories “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W Jacobs on page 85 and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken on page 101 found out what it would be like and the outcome was not what they were inspecting. The purpose of this essay is to show the differences and similarities between “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish” on what the characters wished for and why, what was their third wish and…

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…

playing 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…

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…

Greed is a very lonely place, so be careful what you wish for. These words describe the two exceptional and suspenseful stories The Monkey’s Paw, by W. W. Jacobs and The Third Wish, by Joan Aiken. The Third Wish, is strangely similar to The Monkey’s Paw. Both of the stories are pessimistic and have much in common, yet they have several differences, making the stories both pleasant and sorrowful. To begin with, the two short stories have much in common. For example, in both passages, three…

sneaky. (Personification) It tricks you into believing you have all the time in the world; but in reality you don’t. “One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.” (One Tree Hill) Nothing compares to the feeling of waking up from a vivid dream. A dream that you wish was not a dream. (Epanalepsis) A dream that felt so real, until you were awoken by your alarm clock.…

"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…