The Monkey's Pow Comparison

Every year movies come into theaters that are based on popular books and stories. In these movie blockbusters, the general ideas are the same as in the written stories, but the details may contrast from the original plot in the text. In the short story, “The Monkey’s Paw” written by W. W. Jacobs, circles around the idea that this paw of monkeys' holds a special capability to grant three wishes to the person who receives the paw. Coming from India, Sergeant-Major Morris visits the White family and brings the intriguing paw with him. Explaining its purpose and use to them, they are all very fascinated with the idea of what potential power it holds within. Disregarding the warning Sergeant-Major Morris supplied, Mr. White wishes for 200 pounds in the short story, and 300 pounds in the cinematic production.. The consequences would soon become known and affect the White’s stable lives forever. Two other wishes are made to try to reverse the repercussions of the first wish, leaving the White family in despair. When comparing two tellings of the same story there may be many similarities and differences that emerge, providing distinct examples of what is relatively the same and what is definitely not.

how they examine a certain theme and how their differences in style are significant (i.e. how they approach that theme and what is says about the story’s message and/or the author’s goals). In either case, you will need to include brief summaries of each individual story.

Characters, and some of the details. Both of the characters from the stories are different . In

Although they went through different things, they had the same outcome. All three stories are about finding your personal legend, and it is not about the destination that is important, but the

In the story the Third Wish it shows how the author expresses the change of the character from the beginning to the end and the character changes by his wishes and im going to show how the main character struggles to change by the decisions he makes with his wishes and his regrets.

These two stories were also very different, they were written in different views. The second story was written in first person, it told a story about a past experience. The first story was very general, it related to many women readers,

Wishes come true for those who set aside their selfish ways to help others Conflicts: 1.Person against self- Flory must learn how to challenge herself to move forward without her wings. 2. Person against society- Flory is up against a new world that she wasn’t familiar with. She has to face animals and objects now.

In another way, these two stories are different because the authors have been using different perspective when narrating the story.

Next, the characters Louise Mallard and Emily Grierson are similar is their own progress throughout the two different stories. At the start of both stories, the writers made it

"The third wish" shows that love and sacrifice leads to something better in the end. It starts off with Mr. peters sacrificing his arms to save this one because he love the environment and nature. This theme of love and sacrifice shows up again when Mr. Peters uses his first wish for a lovely wife. In the end, Mr. Peters realizes his wife wasn't happy,so he sacrificed his love for her to be happy. This meaning is important and in life because you have to make sacrifices for the better and life.

In the story “The Third Wish” the readers can conclude that Mr. Peters has three valuable traits about him. One trait that can be drawn about Mr. Peters’ character is that he is loyal. After he turned Leita back into a swan he never wished for a new wife . He stayed with her until he died.

Peters first acquired his wishes, he stands there for a moment just thinking about his wishes. He knew already wishes caused pain most of the time. He was smart enough to choose not to use his third wish. These two examples got to show that these two characters have a very different level of thinking.

White decided to do what any normal person would do, he wished for money, 200 pounds to be exact. And fast forwarding to the morning after, to where the poor son had died in a tragic accident, in the early morning a wealthy man had come to break the horrible news to the mother and father, he told the parents they would be reimburse for their loss, 200 pounds to be exact. But any sensible person would not see that as a coincidence, but as a direct result of Mr. Whites wish. At first Mr. White had been very uncertain about the wish he would make on the paw, but after thinking it over he believed that if the paw actually did work, he wanted to pay off bills on the house and 200 pounds would be the perfect amount to do so. He was very naive to think that nothing was going to happen, listening to the stories Morris told he knew the paw was bad news, yet he still wished upon it.

First of all, the first wish in both stories was for an item or person. They wished for something they each wanted without being very specific, therefore there were consequences. Mr. Peters didn’t exactly wish for a human to be his wife, he only specified “a wife as beautiful as the forest.”. In the case of the old man, his son, Herbert, was killed at work. The old man did not specify how he would get the money. The second wish in both stories was correcting the consequences of the first wish. Such as the fact the Herbert was dead or Mr. Peters’ wife turned into a swan. Finally, Mr. Peters and the old man learn a valuable lesson, be more specific.

Imagery is used very often in “The Third Wish”. Joan Aiken frequently uses imagery in his writing piece. Imagery can describe how the man wants things he does not need and takes things others do not want. Joan Aikens shows his use with Imagery in certain ways that help prove his theme and help readers get a better understanding of the theme and purpose of his writing. One piece from the text on page (105) is, “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. Next moment instead of Leita there was a sleeping swan lying across the bed with it’s head under it’s wing,” This piece of evidence from Aiken’s piece shows that not everybody wants what you want, and just because you want it does not mean you need it. The wife that the man was granted with, was living a miserable life while she was his wife as a human, because that time was spent doing whatever the man wanted her to do. Another piece from the text that shows imagery is, “But I miss the old life in the forest, the cool grass and the mist rising off the river at sunrise and the feel of the water sliding over my feathers as my sister and I drifted along the stream” (105). This piece of evidence shows that not everyone around the man wants exactly what he does. His unwilling wife was miserable while doing exactly what Mr. Peters asked for. The man did