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The Monkeys Paw Cause And Effect Analysis

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Activity 2.7.5: Informative Essay Body Paragraphs

Have you ever wondered what the theme or the background of a story and how it was made? It starts when you learn the cause and effect of the story. Such as in “the Monkeys Paw” and “the Tell-Tale Heart” and discovering how the story was made. In both the stories it builds suspense leaving the audience wondering what’s going to happen next.
In “The Monkeys Paw” the cause-and-effect relationship starts off when the White family gets their hands on a cursed object which is the monkeys paw when their life starts to change. The monkeys paw was handed down to the White family, and they got the monkey paw in the 1900s. The White family got the monkeys paw in their parlor Labarum Villa, they took the …show more content…

The story was told by an unknown person who was never stated, the person committed murder and was talking about his sanity that went along with it, and the story took place in 1843. The author never states were the story takes place in, the narrator murdered the old man because of his eyes because he states they were like a vultures, the narrator states that he loved the old man although he didn’t like his eyes and he wanted them out. The story creates suspense when the narrator talks about he adored the old man but he didn’t like his eyes so he took them out. According to the Narrator he states about his love for the old man but the reason he murdered him was because his haunting look in his eyes, “I loved the old man, he never wronged me, he never gave me an insult, for his gold I had no desire, I think it was his eye yes his eye he had an eye of a vulture, a pale blue eye with a film over it whenever it feel upon me my blood ran cold, I made my mind to take the life of the old man.” In the quotation it states how he had problems with his inner vison. If the cause did not exist in this story line it wouldn’t explain why he killed the old man and what made his mind up. In the tell-tale heart when it explains what he was thinking of the old man vs what he was going to it creates

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