The Monkey's Paw Essay

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Monkey's Paw
The story “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs was a story about a family called the whites that accorded the paw from a sergeant major that was over in India.The Paw came from an old fukir that made the Paw give 3 wishes but it always came with some consequences.HOw did W.W. Jacobs create tension and mystery.

In the first part of the story the whites are at their home;Sitting at the table the son and father were playing chess as the mom was knitting by the fire.That is when the Sergeant Major Morris was introduced and after a while started talking about his adventure and then the old man brought up the conversation of the monkey’s paw.The intro of the monkey's paw brought tension and mystery because the whites know nothing about the paw and were intrigued to know more about it and a while later in the part the sergeant major threw it in the fire and the old man hastily took it off the burning wood.The old man asked the sergeant major how to wish and he said you hold it in your right hand and wish aloud,but the sergeant added that is comes with consequences.The mysterious thing is that after the sergeant major threw it in the fire why did he just let

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