Comparing The Monkey's Paw And The Third Wish

Comparing and Contrasting “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish”
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken have similarities and differences. The similarities and differences are to be found in the exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, and the falling action. While the differences in both stories are almost obvious, the similarities can be found also.
The exposition in both stories have similarities and differences. For example, both stories seem to take place in rural England, but ‘The Monkey’s Paw” occurs around the late 1800s, and “The Third Wish” takes place around modern times. Next, in “The Monkey’s Paw”, the mood is very sinister or evil, but “The Third Wish” has a happier and more upbeat mood at some moments, but the mood changes to sad sometimes as well. The mood in “The Third Wish” is also lonely at times, and on page 675 the story states, “The only thing that troubled him was that he was a little lonely,” which is important because it shows that he was indeed lonely.
In the rising action of both stories, the reader can distinguish events that are alike and events that are clearly different. In both stories, the characters make their first wish in the rising action, but their reasons for wishing are different; Mr. White from “The Monkey’s Paw” wishes out of curiosity to see if the paw actually

works, and Mr. Peters from “The Third Wish” wished out of loneliness. The conflicts in both stories are similar as well because both characters have problems with their wishes. Each story’s wish takes a turn for the worse; “The Monkey’s Paw” wish results in unhappiness. “She was weeping, and as he came nearer he saw that tears were rolling, too, from the swan’s eyes,” as stated in “The Third Wish” on page 676, shows how sad Leita is.
In both stories, the climaxes are very alike, but the differences are easy to spot as well. IN both stories, the main characters use a wish to undo another, except in “The Monkey’s Paw”, Mr. White uses his wish to make his son that came back alive to go away, and in “The Third Wish”, Mr. Peters uses his wish to turn his wife back into a swan. On page 677 in “The Third Wish”, the text states, “Then he knew that it was hopeless and she would never be happy as a human. He stooped down and kissed her goodbye, then took another leaf from his notecase, blew it out of the window, and used up his second wish.” This is important because it was the moment that Mr. Peters turns his wife back into a swan to make her happy, and reverses his first wish.
In the falling action of both pieces of literature, there are clear comparisons and contrasts.

In both stories, most of the conflicts are left unresolved. In “The Monkey’s Paw”, the major conflict that is not resolved is that Herbert still died. In “The Third Wish”, the major conflict is that Mr. Peters went back to being lonely and having no wife. In “The Monkey’s Paw” on page 686 it says, “He was caught in the machinery”, when talking about Herbert, and that’s important because it shows that Herbert died, which is the cause for the beginning of the conflict. The morals of both stories are to be careful what you wish

for.
In conclusion, both “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish” show similarities and differences within the texts. Even though the stories are different, they still have similarities, and those are to be found throughout the test in the expostition, conflict, rising action, climax, and the falling action. The morals in both stories show obvious differences, but some similarities as well. Overall, it is obvious “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish” are more different than they are similar.