The True Themes of "The Monkey's Paw" More and more horror stories are written and published, but one of the most meaningful stories is "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. Although Jacobs spent most his career writing humorous stories, he is always known by this frightening story. "The Monkey's Paw" is set in the UK after the World War I, and its plot looks like a three wishes tale; someone appears and gives the main character three wishes. However, the monkey's paw does not only give people wishes

short story “Monkeys Paw" by William W. Jacobs there is a character responsible for what happens in the story. In the story the Fakir tried to show how fate ruled people's lives and that fate cannot be altered. Mr. White is the most responsible for the sorrow that occurred in the story. In the story it states “if you don't want it, give it to me, Morris. No I threw it on the fire” (William 2). This shows that Mr. White could have gotten rid of the monkeys paw instead of using the monkeys paw to make his

“Monkey Paw” by W.W. Jacobs shows that magic can affect you in good and/or bad ways if you don’t earn what you wish for. In the story there is a magical monkey 's paw that can grant you wishes - with a cost. Every Time the family wishes for something, the paw brings bad luck to the family. For example the family wished for two hundred pounds to pay off their mortgage and in exchange there son died and they got a sympathy grant of two hundred pounds. Why would this happen? In “Monkey paw”there was

The “Monkey's Paw” by W. W. Jacobs is a short story about a family of three that came upon a magic monkey paw. They made a wish that killed their son and it made them hate it. They tried to figure out how to get their son back, they made a wish to have their son back. When a ghost started to haunt them, they made their final wish to have the ghost go away. Through the action of the characters, the reader can understand that the story “Monkey Paw” is telling people to be careful about what they wish

The short story "The Monkeys Paw" is a wonderful story written by W.W. Jacobs. This short story is a symbolic fable with multiple messages including, be carful what you wish for and be thankful for what you have. Another theme that can be derived from the story includes learning from your mistakes.This tale implies many major themes and notable lessons that many readers should already have knowledge of. Many examples of this theme, persist throughout the story, some of which include the warnings

In the beginning of the story "The Monkey's Paw" readers are introduced to the monkey paw with two different viewpoints one from Sergeant-Major Morris ,someone who knows what it can do.Then there is another one from Mr.White someone, who does not know anything about it yet. These different points of view are used to create suspense.With 2 completely different viewpoints we can predict and use the experienced viewpoint, Sergeant-Major Morris to enhance our prediction which gives us a sense of foreshadowing

“...fate ruled people 's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.” This is a quote from "The Monkey 's Paw." This applies to both stories, "The Monkey 's Paw" and "The Third Wish," because the main characters, Mr. White and Mr. Peters, both go through hardships. There are many similarities and differences between the stories. The first similarity is that the story both have three wishes, which become a problem for them. The second is the theme, which both stories have

going to happen because of the event or action. The event that happens is the cause and what happens because of that event is the effect. The effect is what you want to know about and makes you feel suspense. In both “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Monkeys Paw” this is the case because they both have unlikely events that cause someone to die which makes the reader feel suspense when the story takes a turn for the worst. The cause and effect relationship is based on