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Fearful Wishing :

            
             What if in this world there is an item that can grant anybody any three wishes? There may even be serious and dangerous consequences to every wish. The strange thing about the ability to get any three wishes that one wants is that it's true."The monkey's paw" written by W.W. Jacobs uses the well known story of being granted 3 wishes but puts a twist on the story creating a horror type story. In the small parlor of Lakesnam Villa a visitor comes named Sergeant Major Morris. The Sergeant Major visits the house of Mr. and Mrs. White and their son Herbert. The sergeant pulls out the monkeys paw and talks about its magic before throwing it in the fire where Mr. white takes it out so that he could keep and use the monkey's paw. One should work for what he wants not wish for it but if one does then be careful what you wish for.
             If the wish is free then there must be a consequence because nothing is truly free. Mr. and Mrs. White are sitting there at their piano and Mr. White wishes for two hundred pounds with the monkey's paw. The next day Edward got caught in the machinery and died leaving his parents compensation money. His dry lips shaped the words, "How much?" "Two hundred pounds," was the answer (Jacobs 7). Mr. White wished for 200 pounds and it took a day but he got it at the cost of his son's life however. No matter how harmless the wish sounds there can be a consequence to that wish and wishing for 200 pounds seems harmless enough. Even though it does not seem like nothing bad can happen just shows that everything that is free has a flaw no matter what the wish. So even there will be a consequence in the wish just make sure that when it is wished for that it is an intelligent one. .
             If one is making a wish then it must be a smart one or don't make one at all. Weeks after their son's death Mrs. White thinks to use the monkeys paw. She suggests that her husband wish for their son to be alive again with their second wish.


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