Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Monkey's Paw

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“The Monkey’s Paw”

In his story, “the monkey's paw,”w.w jacobs creates a mood of suspense through his use of foreshadowing in his story, a powerful object that grants wishes intrigues the characters but their curiously eventually brings dark consequences and deep regret to begin with the use of dialogue in this short story creates supunes when the text stated “wish on the paw to bring our son alive and then there is a knock on the door page 122 the reader began to want to know what is going to happen next which contributes to a scary mood additionally jacobs describes events in a dreadful way when he states my last wish i want my son to be gone Page 112 this description of the events makes the reader feel a sense of will it happen lastly