Implications
“... consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late”
― Alexandra Potter, Be Careful What You Wish For
The excerpt above conveys the ideas of The Third Wish by Joan Aiken and The Monkey’s Paw by the W.W. Jacobs. In The Third Wish, the main character, Mr. Peters, rescues a swan then demands three wishes be granted as a reward for his deeds. While in The Monkey’s Paw, the Whites acquired a mysterious paw from a friend, they were however admonished solely for the three wishes that the paw grants to its former owners. Within these two stories, there is a handful of antagonistic and analogous features involving the theme and message the two author are attempting to convey.
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The most substantial similarity between the two stories is the theme; always consider the implications beforehand. The main characters in both stories began with three wishes that were granted to them. Both casted a wish that they assumed would do nothing but benefit them. This was far from the truth however, since the wishes they casted did everything but benefit them; it created an appalling wake for them and their loved ones. In addition, both characters in desperation used one of their remaining wishes to negate their first wish. This was unfortunately not enough, because in both stories one of the main characters dies. All of these similarities shows that they both have a uniform theme, that you should never be too hasty with things in life, and that you should always consider the implication with