The+Monkey's+Paw

 ====It starts off as Sargent-Major Morris telling them about a "lucky" paw of a dead monkey. Apparently, you can wish on the paw and your three wishes will come true. Mr. White wishes for 200 pounds. They find out that there son, Herbert got killed by getting caught in the machinery at his work. They got a compensation of 200 pounds. The irony only starts there. He wished for 200 pounds but in effect, he lost his son. ====  After the son died in the accident at work, the sons mother begged the father to wish him back alive. Mr. White, the father, did not want to wish his son back to life because he was afraid that his son who was ripped apart in an accident would truly come back to life. His wife begged and begged until he finally made the wish. After a few moments after the wish, nothing seemed to be happening so he and his wife went back to bed. Then, there was a knock at the door. Mrs. White jumped out of her bed and rushed down the stairs to the front door--she was practically going bananas. She could not unlock the door because the lock was up too high so she screamed for her husband to open it. Mr. White was terrified of his son who had just came back to life. He was afraid that he would kill him and his wife. Mrs. White got a chair and stood on it so she could unlock the door. Before she could unlock lock the door and let their undead son into the house, Mr. White took the monkey paw and made his third and final wish. The story ends with Mr. White making his last wish, but the author doesn't let the reader know what his last wish was.

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==== ** Mr. White ** - A normal elderly man who lives with his wife and son. Mr. White did not listen to the warnings that Morris gave him and did not fully believe that it would work. He wished for 200 pounds in a joking manner, which was too much because he paid the price of losing his son. ====


 * Mrs. White** - The wife of Mr White and Herbert's mother. She didn't believe in the monkey's paw. She wanted to wish for something more sensible because Morris warned them. When the wish came true the first time and their son was dead she wanted to use the paw to bring her son back to life.


 * Herbert** - The Whites' son. Never thought that the monkey's paw would work. He gave his father the idea of wishing for 200 pounds. Later died in a horrific accident at work, as a plot device. After he died, the parents received 200 pounds from the place he worked. As the third wish, his mother wished Herbert back to life. When he walked up to the door, he was wished away by Mr. White.


 * Morris -** He was Mr. White's friend and was a sergeant major. He was the one that told them about the paw and to wish for something sensible. He warned them that the previous owner had a final wish of death because something went terribly wrong. He wanted to throw the paw in the fire and get rid of it because it caused so much harm in the past.

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Quotes
"I expect you'll find the cash tied up in a big bag in the middle of your bed, said Herbert, as he bade them good night, and something horrible squatting up on top of the wardrobe watching you as you pocket your ill-gotten gains." pg 29

This quote is foreshadowing that his parents will get the money in a terrible way. The thing squatting on the wardrobe would be Herbert watching his parents pocket the money they got from his death. Herbert also said that they would get the money in a bag and when the man came to inform them about Herbert's death he dropped a heap of money to the ground.