Monkey's Paw Foreshadowing

In “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs gives the reader an interesting tale on a family’s encounter with a mysterious mummified monkey’s paw and the tragic events that followed that changed their lives. From the beginning of the story the main characters, The Whites were presented as a normal British family who were lived a relatively happy life, but that all changed when an old sergeant from the British military pays them a visit who reluctantly give them a monkey’s paw. With that paw the sergeant told them it possessed powers that he foreshadow had unexpected consequences. With the help of literacy devices such as foreshadowing and figurative language to be build up suspense in the story.
The exposition of the story displays a peaceful family setting were a father and son are playing a chess game with the help of imagery. Before the Sergeant-Major enter the house the narrator

bought up his presents coming which added a bit of suspense to the story because it made the reader ask what the signifance of this man is.
Foreshadowing in this story becomes vital part of building suspense in the story.

A good example foreshadowing is when the Sergeant-Major revealed the monkey’s paw and he reveal that it contained a spell that was part on by a fakir who wanted to show that “fate ruled people’s lives, and that those whole interfered with it did so to their own sorrow”. From there the reader can infer that if the statements from the sergeant were true the paw meant them no good. He also mentioned that three wishes come with the paw had dire consequences and this was evident when Mr. White wished for two hundred pounds. The next day the family was still waiting for the money they wished for, that is until the family received the news of their son’s death due to work accident in which they received the two hundred pounds the company in which their son worked at. This was foreshadowed in beginning of the story. The author used imagery to illustrate the setting one again after the son’s death when he talked about their return back home when he said, “And came back to a house steeped in shadow and

silence.
Throughout the story foreshadowing and imagery was used to build suspense and illustrate the setting to the reader. With the help of foreshadowing the reader is eager to wonder what’s next or what is about to occur in the story. With the help of imagery the setting is painted within the reader’s mind to be imagining the story.