Comparing The Monkey's Paw And The Third Wish

Comparing and Contrasting “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish” “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken have similarities and differences. The similarities and differences are to be found in the exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, and the falling action. While the differences in both stories are almost obvious, the similarities can be found also. The exposition in both stories have similarities and differences. For example, both stories seem to take place in rural England, but ‘The Monkey’s Paw” occurs around the late 1800s, and “The Third Wish” takes place around modern times. Next, in “The Monkey’s Paw”, the mood is very sinister or evil, but “The Third Wish” has a happier and more upbeat mood at some moments, but the mood changes to sad sometimes as well. The mood in “The Third Wish” is also lonely at times, and on page 675 the story states, “The only thing that troubled him was that he was a little lonely,” which is important because it shows that he was indeed lonely. In the rising action of both stories, the reader can distinguish events that are alike and events that are clearly different. In both stories, the characters make their first wish in the rising action, but their reasons for wishing are different; Mr. White from “The Monkey’s Paw” wishes out of curiosity to see if the paw actually

In both stories, most of the conflicts are left unresolved. In “The Monkey’s Paw”, the major conflict that is not resolved is that Herbert still died. In “The Third Wish”, the major conflict is that Mr. Peters went back to being lonely and having no wife. In “The Monkey’s Paw” on page 686 it says, “He was caught in the machinery”, when talking about Herbert, and that’s important because it shows that Herbert died, which is the cause for the beginning of the conflict. The morals of both stories are to be careful what you wish