“The Monkey's Paw” Prequel
Kinsley Sullivan
It all began at a funeral. When Mike, the first owner of the paw, received it from an unknown man at his brother's funeral. “ You now have three wishes, but wish wisely or you will forever regret them.” said the man in a mumble. He went home held the monkey's paw in the air and said his first wish, which was a wish for love. He’d been so lost without his brother due to the fact that he was his only family left. People could tell something was up by the way he is now. Mike use to be a super upbeat man who can make anybody smile. Nowadays he seems to not care, he walks all slumped down and frowns at the ground. There was one day though that the whisper around down was he smiled at a young woman who
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was walking by. More and more people were talking about Mike and the lovely young woman he’d walk and talk with.
Soon, the love went and left and he went back to his sad slumped down man. Than his second wish came to mind. He wished for a family, and that's when everything went really wrong. His family came knocking at his door the night he wished, but they weren't as he expected. Mike was hoping for a loving upbeat family but instead there was a old woman with a daughter and son. No father, nor smile on any of their faces. His depression increased throughout the time he spent with his “ family”. His sister messed with all of his personal belongings and his mother and brother never spoke a word to him, as if he weren't there. People would ask him if he's all right on his way to work, but no answer was heard. Finally his mother came barging into his room with the paw in her hand asking what it was. He leaped from his bed and grabbed it in a hurry. “ Please never touch this again.” She walked away curious as of why she shouldn't touch such a thing but respected the answer and never got around it. Mikes lonesome grew worse to where he couldn't take it anymore. Death was the final wish for Mike. The death didn't come to who he was wanting it to. He was wishing for his death, but instead his new family soon all died. There
the man was again lonesome and searching for love. Mike had no more use for the paw now, so he no longer carried it around, but still kept it. A couple days later he for some reason brought the paw with him when he was going to visit his childhood friend, Sergeant Major Morris. As he walked in the door the family and his friend welcomed him with the type of love he was looking for. Mike was planning on staying a while, but knew he had to get out before his friend saw the paw. It was at the moment when he was getting up to leave that the paw fell out and onto the floor. His friend beat him to pick it up and asked what it was. “ Ohh its just an old paw i've inherited”, said Mike. “ Well i'd like to take that off your hands for ya if it's not too special”, said Morris. Mike stood there in shock as to what he should do. As he felt his hand moving with the paw in it to give to his friends, he knew deep down it wasn't the right thing to do. Ignoring all the signs he handed his friend the paw and told him that he had three wishes, and to wish wisely.
Additionally, Sergeant Major Morris knew the consequences of wishing upon the monkey's paw, saying on page 377, "I don't know what the first two [wishes] were, but the third was for death." This implied that the previous owner of the paw had suffered such severe consequences that he wished away his own life. Although Sergeant Major Morris refrained from giving the
The Simpsons episode “The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror II” is about a magical monkey’s paw bought by the Simpsons, a modern day family that lives in a town called Springfield. The family uses the paw to grant themselves four wishes. The wishes, they soon find out, all include repercussions that harm the family in some way. The book “The Monkey’s Paw” is about a family that is given a monkey’s paw by a friend that says it can grant three wishes. The family’s home in this story is Laburnum Villa, sometime in the past. At first the family is skeptical of the friends claim that the paw is magic saying, “If the tale about the monkey’s paw is not more truthful than those he has been telling us, we shan't make much out of it.”(Page 4, W.W. Jacobs). They then proceed to use the paw and are surprised to find that what they wish for is in fact granted but comes with terrible consequences. While “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror II” both share similar plots, the settings of the stories and the
There is no doubt in the fact that The Monkey’s Paw (written by: W.W. Jacobs) and The Goldfish (written by: Etgar Keret) are very similar. What a lot of people fail see though, is that even with them being so similar, they aren’t. Each one has its own meeting and its own story to be told.
One may stutter over the conception that a monkey’s paw holds the power to determine fate, rather than siding with freewill. In the short story, “The Monkey’s Paw,” an average family, located in the middle class discovers a monkey’s paw and are told that they had three wishes upon that magical, yet deceiving item. However, their decisions cost them several, unintended consequences, due to greed within the human mind. The author, W.W. Jacobs uses symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony to convey the peril of wish fulfillment and the dangers of interfering with fate.
The author uses many elements to show foreshadowing and conflict to make the story have a point and interesting. If foreshadowing and conflict was not in “The Monkey’s Paw”, then the story would be dull and not interesting to read. After reading the story just remember never take anything for granted, and be happy with what you
Just like a genie, right? Wrong. Thesewishes come with an outstanding price. The story proves that interfering with fate can have a disastrous outcome. “The Monkey’s Paw” uses literary devices to create a story filled with both suspense and horror..
In short, there are multiple similarities and differences in the characters, plot, and resolution in the short story and motion picture “The Monkey’s Paw” that clearly influence the audience. For instance, the difference in characters affects the mood. Similarities in the plot influence the tone, and the corresponding resolutions impact the theme. The director of the motion picture “The Monkey’s Paw” chose to stick to some aspects of the text as well as change some for numerous reasons, some of which include keeping the audience's attention, sustaining the author's tone in the text, and ensuring that the readers and viewers receive the same message.
The monkey’s paw had driven a previous owner to wish for death. Now it is in the hands of the White family, whose members are blissfully unaware of the sorrow it will bring them. Despite a few differences, the characters, plot, and mood in the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs (first published in September 1902) and the short film adaption, The Monkey’s Paw by Lewisworks Studios and Ricky Lewis Jr. (produced in 2011), are very similar. In both the short story and film, the White family (consisting of Mr. White, Mrs. White, and their son, Herbert) decide to keep and wish on an enchanted monkey’s paw brought by their friend, Sergeant Major Morris, despite his warnings about it. The differences between the two were probably due
People need to be comforted when loss occurs; however, the next time he speaks to someone it will be four months later, when Jo’s brother reaches out to have some of her belongings. Mike and his friend Todd conversed four years later after Joanna’s passing, during which Todd prods at Mike if he has see anyone. “Have you seen anybody, Mike?” to which Mike responded with “Never. No one comes close to Jo.” (King 2) Mike shut himself out from the world, drowning in sorrow and affliction.
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It was a dark cold night in December. Opening the door to their house, the den sat quiet as usual, but something else was different. Walking to the living room, I did not hear a voice that always greeted me with joy. There was no room for joy, or laughter anymore. When I sat down, my Pa Pa’s bed sat across from me. I could see the bones through his skin, the bagginess of his white t-shirt, and the sadness that rest in his eyes. On his lips, a smile no longer lived. “Hi Pa Pa”, I say as I walked over to k...
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The stories of Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" and William W. Jacobs "The Monkey's Paw" have several different degrees of symbols and themes that warn the characters of emitted danger or bad outcomes in their stories that can be mirrored of each other. In, these stories the characters do not follow the warnings from these symbols and themes from the clues that are presented to them. From these terrible choices that are decided, they find themselves in situations that could have been avoided, but they did not proceed with. My analysis of these symbols and themes will demonstrate what they are and show the obvious of what to look for. So, let us begin on this analysis and see how the symbols and themes could have
I will just take it home and see what this fake thing can do.” The man went back to his house and sat down on the chair in the dining room staring at the monkey’s paw. He told his wife and daughter about how the old fakir gave him the monkey’s paw and how it granted wishes. The man said to the monkey’s paw “I wish for a million dollars.”