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Mystery And Tension In W. W Jacobs 'Monkey's Paw'

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In the story, “Monkey’s Paw”, W.W Jacobs creates mystery and tension by showing the power of the monkey paw. With the power of the monkey paw you could make any 3 wishes you would like and they would happen. But it was not guaranteed that what you wish for would be positive or negative, so that creates the mysterious tone. Also the wishes that were made in the book were kind of crazy, so that creates the tension. In the first part it says, “ I do not know what the first two were, but the third was for death.” Based on the text if the paw was strong enough to actually make someone die you can tell it has some type of supernatural power. Also in the first part they talked about how the 3 wishes on the paw were used up but the soldier kept
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