The Monkey's Paw

 
     
                           

                    "The Monkey's Paw" is a supernatural short story by author "W.W.Jacobs" first published in England in 1902.

                    In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of the Monkey's hand , but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate.

                   In "The Monkey's Paw" what is the third wish and what are consequences? He wished for his son to be dead again and the consequences were that the mother saw him and she was in anguish......he wished for a wife as beautiful as nature. His wife, who was a swan, turned human.

                    While at first the white's don't believe in the monkey's paw, they decide to make a wish anyway. Mr.White wants 200 pound to pay off his house.

                   The second wish was Mrs.White's wish that her son,Herbert,would come back to life. In this story, sergeant-major morris come to the whites' house and shows the the monkey's paw. He fells them about how there is the curse on it.......they first wish for 200pounds.

                   "As I wished, it twisted in my hand like a snake." The second wish, to have the whites mangled, dead son alive again is made in sadness and desperation.......... He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back,and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.