Hanna Matsuo
The Third Wish and The Monkeys
Paw ESSAY
The Monkeys Paw is a short story by W.W. Jacobs.
The Third Wish is a short story by Joan Aiken.
Ive learned that even if your wishes are granted they
dont always better you. In both stories make the first
wish, but then, after all they undo their wishes. While both
stories much as The Monkeys Paw and The Third Wish are
the same in Theme, the protagonists struggle in their
decisions, also both have too many differences in some of
the details and their resolution is exclusive.
In both stories Third Wish and Monkeys Paw have some
similarities and differences expositions. Also the
protagonists are alike. In both stories the authors write in
3rd person, and the point of view it is omniscient. In the
Third Wish is used when the man is driving and he wishes
for a wife but the problem is that Leita, his wife becomes
unhappy because she misses her sister but she doesnt
want to become a swam again because she will miss Mr.
Peters too.
In other hand, in Monkeys Paw is when Mr. White wish for
two hundred pounds but the problem is that his son Hebert
has been killed, and his boss give the two hounded pounds
to Mr. White to help with their loss.
They both have different setting. The place of the Third
Wish is in a country-side farm, and in the Monkeys Paw is in
England, Laburran Villa.
In Monkeys Paw say without the night was cold and wet,
but in the small parlor of Laburran Villa the blinds were
drawing and the fire burned brightly. In the Third Wish
there was a man who was driving in his car at dusk on a
spring evening through part of the forest of Savernake.
In addition both stories have Similarities in the situation
because the protagonist goes through, but both are
different between how they react. The two stories use their
wishes, but they uses their others wish to undo the wishes
they made before. In the Third Wish one night Mr. Peter
used his second wish to turn his wife Leita to become a
swam again and to see her happy with her sister.
In Monkeys Paw, the other story Mr. White was so sad that
his son was dead so he made his second wish to return his
son back, but his son was a zombie; however, Mr. Whites
uses his third wish to his son to dies again.
Currently in the Third Wish uses only two wishes because
Mr. Peters prefers to save the third one he has. Instead in
the Mokeys Paw Mr. White used all the wishes.
Mr. Whites, the old man differently said I wish for two
hundred pounds. Mr. Peters said I wish I had a wife as
beautiful as the forest.
In addition, in the climax of the both stories have
similarities in the conflict or the problem, but then it gets
tidy out, but also there are too many differences that the
protagonist makes in the decisions.
In the climax both stories are based on fixing their bad
decisions or wishes they did.
In the Monkeys Paw Mr. White have to fix his wishes and
turn things to normal lie where it was before and he have to
wish to his son to be dead again because of the hundred
pounds that he wishes. Instead, in the Third Wish Mr. Peters
has to turn his wife from a swam again letting Leita to be
happy with her family.
After the death of his son, and wishing again to his son dies
Mr. Whites decides repair their mistakes. Instead Mr. Peters
wishes for Leita to be a swan again, so she can be happy
again.
Mr. White is desperate because when he heard the knock of
his door after his wish of his son to comeback, after seeing
his son be a zombie Whites grab the Monkeys Paw to wish
to his son to be death again that is when he uses his third
wish. the street lamp flickering opposite shore on a quiet
and deserted road .
The Third Wish then Peters knew that it was hopeless and
Leita would never be happy as a human, so one night he
took a leaf and he made his second wish to return his wife
to a swam so she would be happy.
To conclude with in The Third Wish and Monkeys Paw both
stories are different in setting, conflict, character and also
the resolution, but at the same time both stories have
similarities in the climax and the theme.
Current in the characters and the settings of both stories
shows the conflicts and the problems that the protagonists
pass through. Both protagonists have a decision making in
the climax that it is the point of the story. Also in both
stories the conflict have may similarities because the
protagonists have to fix all wishes they make it and was
bad.
To termination, people have to be very careful about what
you wish for, because once it happens there is no turning
back whether is good or bad. Also be careful who you trust
to.
