The White Family In The Monkey's Paw

After Herbert asked Morris if he already requested his three wishes, Morris replies with, “‘I have,’...and his blotchy face whitened” (Jacobs). With Morris’s face whitening, it tacitly tells the audience that something terrifying happened when Morris made his wishes. This foreshadows that something dreadful will happen once the Whites make their wishes. Question 2: Compare Mr. White’s feelings about the monkey’s paw when he makes the first wish, second wish, and third wish. How does his attitude change?

The conflict in the story is not only the monkey’s paw but was somewhat Mr. White’s attitude. If he never was that greedy the story would have changed he would have agreed with Morris and burned the monkey’s paw but he didn’t want to do that creating the plot. Any change in the plot could have/ would have altered the course of the story but also altering the theme. In “The Monkey’s Paw,” the downfall of the White family is when they receive the two hundred pounds as a compensation for the son’s death which was actually caused by messing with fate. They did receive the two hundred pounds but it came at an even greater price their son’s death.

White the monkey’s paw knowing it is cursed. Why would Morris burn the money’s paw in Mr. White’s home? I think there is a clear motive behind his actions, even though it is not stated in the story. It’s possible that Morris got cursed himself and he is trying to get rid of the curse by giving the monkey’s paw to Mr. White. I can indicate from the story that Mr. White and Morris are probably friends so Morris would know Mr. White’s weaknesses and hurt him.

Bad things then happen to them. This story is an example of a superstitious story, because they thought that the monkey’s paw would actually grant three wishes. This paper will use examples from the text to show superstition in the story. This is a superstitious tale, because they believed that the paw would grant three wishes. For example, in “The Monkey's Paw”, Mr. White thought that he could just wish for 200 pounds and everything would be fine.

Performance Task- Thrill of Horror The Monkey’s Paw, a story about granting the things that are wished for, but also being aware of the the things that you wish for. But whoever could have known that these wishes also come with a price, a price so immense in size that it may have the power to change your life forever. The Monkey's Paw, written by W.W. Jacobs, is a story about a mystical charm. A monkey's paw that is brought into the home of the White family by Sergeant Major Morris, who has served in India. The story that best fits in the horror genre is The Monkey’s Paw because the story uses the elements suspense, fear, and mystery/ unknown.

Greed is bad, in “The Monkey’s Paw” people had negativity against the paw, others examined the paw wondering how it works, others were worried about it the Coincidence that came with every wish made. Someone else was also wondering how it works, so he picked up the paw and made a wish for money to see if the wish would come true or not. However, without thinking about the coincidence it won’t lead to an happy ending when that person made the wish for money, the son dies because of the wish for money he made. After the son died, a man came to the family’s house to tell how bad he feels for their son who got caught in a machine and

In the Monkey’s paw on page 108 the quote said “his tones were so grave that a hush fell upon the room.” The tell - tale heart and the monkey’s paw are entertaining short stories that meet the criteria to be categorized in the horror genre because they both contain suspense. In the tell tale hearts it creates suspense because allen said that the old man did him no wrong but he wanted to kill him because of the old man’s eye and that he had the eye of an eagle, and that his eye was blue and pale . and another reason why this story show’s numorious amounts of suspense is because every night he will stand in the old man’s room and watch him sleep just thinking about the old man’s eye while he’s sleeping. And the third reason why this story shows suspense is because allen he always acted very weired. In the monkey’s paw it creates suspense through the mystery surrounding, when sergeant Major Morris visits the Whites, he brings with him the very vague and mysterious story of the monkey’s paw.

This can be noticed throughout the book and in the three scenes talked about before because the white characters in the book often times make irrational comments about slaves that relate to what they are doing themselves. Twain’s use of irony the scene about Huck being upset with the fact that Jim would steal his family back if he had too, shows that Huck did not think Jim should be able to and was not deserving enough to have his own family. This shows the greater truth of slavery because even though Huck likes Jim, he did not agree with Jim’s want to have a free family. The scene where the Duke, the King, and Huck are categorizing slaves as thieves, when they themselves are thieves shows the greater truth of slavery that slaves were categorized into certain types of people, even though it was not true of all slaves. The scene were Tom says that he would hang a slave if they were ungrateful and ranaway shows the greater truth of slavery that if a slave disobeyed, they deserved death.

There are numerous themes in this short story such as British imperialism and colonial resentment however the most prominent theme in this story is fear of humiliation and the effect peer- pressure has on an individual. The setting of Burma helps work with this theme as it provides an area for the plot to take place and develop. After marching miles to the destination of the elephant, a crowd had surrounded George Orwell and encourages Orwell to kill the elephant. George Orwell is compelled to kill the once ravaging elephant due to the fact that Orwell wants to avoid looking like a fool. George Orwell is willing to sacrifice his role of doing the right thing and fulfilling the Burmese wishes in order to save himself from

Although, the sandals and sword proved the young man’s origins, the king and his wife were still skeptical about trusting this boy. The queen then tried to poison Theseus and was banished by her own husband. Already the story has the theme of a tragedy, but more is to come. Another way this story proves Scott Fitzgerald’s quote is when Theseus volunteers to go to the Labyrinth.

This is why I think it is the overall message in the story because things in life always come at a cost. In the story, Sergeant- Major Morris gave the White Family the Monkey’s Paw because they asked and begged for it. The White family thought that they were getting a chance to grant three wishes of their choice, but they didn’t consider the dangers in which Morris warned them about.