The Monkey's Paw Foreshadowing Analysis

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The story of “The Monkey’s Paw” creates tension as well as a chiropractor can relieve. In the story it doesn’t take more than two eyes to see the tension rising rapidly. When the story leads our mind to look at the tension we tend to oversee all the foreshadowing that is happening. One way author’s create tension is through the foreshadowing of story. Not only is foreshadowing important to create tension, but in this story it will do more than that as it gives more intuition to the story. Involving tension in a story comes with the foreshadowing when the author foreshadows it creates tension which drives you into more of the story. Foreshadowing is important to draw out tension in a story. One example in the story is Morris, who said “the