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Julian Yu 8-5

 

The theme of the story the monkey’s paw is do not get greedy, greed can destroy one’s life. This story is about a soldier gave a monkey’s paw that was supposed to grant wishes to the white family. The family’s first wish is two get two hundred pounds to pay their bills, the result was they got a payment for the death of their son. Then the mother in desperate attempt wished for their son to come back. And finally, Mr. White fixed the last wish. The main theme of the story or the moral is to no get greedy, or you will get a disaster.

In the story The Monkey’s Paw, by William. W. Jacobs, the author believes that do not get greedy, greed can destroy one’s life. The first piece of evidence to support the claim is in pages 125-215 after they wished for two hundred pounds their wish came true as payment in result of their only sons death, the text states: Dropping his wife’s hand, Mr. White stood up and stared at the man with a look of horror. ‘How much?’ he said. ‘Two hundred pounds.’ The old man smiled faintly, put out his hands like a blind man, and fell to the floor, unconscious. The evidence above shows when you have greed for something you don’t actually need or just greed can result in disaster. Further along in the story, the second piece of evidence is in pages 230-330 where Mrs. White made her husband to wish for their son to come back from the dead. The story clearly states:” But Mr. White was on his hands and knees, groping wildly on the floor, trying to find the paw. If he could only find it before the thing outside got in!”. this peace of evidence shows that do not greed for something you should not have, this results in bad ways.

From all of the evidence above it shows that William believes that do not have greed, do not wish for something you should not have, or you wouldn’t get what you get and possibly get the opposite, or very bad result.