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Comparing Three Wishings And The Monkeys Paw
Have you ever wanted to have three wishes, to wish whatever you like? There are way to get this may the three wishes and the monkeys paw tell you about there good and bad wishing. First of all, in both stories they do have three wishes and the story is that they both do something to get these three wishes and in the monkeys paw they save it from a sergeant that came to talk to the old man named Mr. White. In the 3rd wish he finds a badly hurt swan trapped in a thorn bush. Mr. Peters jumped in a saved it then the swan turned into the king of the forest with his beautiful cape made out of red velvet silk cloth with his kingly crown and bestowed three wishes onto Mr.Peters and he was grateful for these three wishes. But on the monkeys paw they were not grateful for these. Although these stories are the same in they both have three wishes to get whatever he wanted, they are different in how they use there wishes.

They are the same in many ways from how they use these wishes. First they have three wishes and that both also had a warning. In the monkeys paw the sergeant said, "It has a spell put on it by an old fakir" (Jacobs 88).
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In the first way the monkeys paw and the 3rd wish are different in that the 3rd wish didn't use all three wishes he died happily on his bed with his last wish on him and that he was protected by his wife and by her sister. Then in the monkeys paw he was forced into wishing his son back to existence then he used hid last to undo the 2nd so his wife didn't have to see him. Then the monkeys paw ends sorrowful and sad as it said in the book "The street lamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet deserted road" (Jacobs 99). Although the 3rd wish it ends happily ever after like I said up in this paragraph. Truly just because it has three wishes doesn't mean that both of the stories are the same although both are the same in many ways but more

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