Importance Of Setting In The Monkey's Paw By W. Jacobs
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Setting is the specific time and place when something takes place. Usually books, stories,
novellas, etc can have more than one setting but they always have one main setting. The Monkey's
Paw by W.W. Jacobs has two settings: the White's house which is like the main setting where most
of the story takes place also known as the Laburnam Villa. Maw and Meggins was also a setting in
tThe Monkey's Paw which is the company that Herbert worked for. The setting is very important
because its what sets the kind of environment the reader likes or understands.
The Monkey's Paw is a dark and kind of cruel story. It is fiction fantasy because it show
fantasy or magic through a supposedly "magic paw". The author first presents the Whites as a…show more content… While he gets drunk he tells the family all about the monkey's paw and the three
wishes it gives to three men. And obviously they all get curious; Mr. White tries to save the paw
after Sergeant throws it into the fire. Mr. White wishes on the paw and gets his son killed.
Mr. White wishes for two hundred pounds, the amount of money he need to pay the rest of
what he owed for his home. After this Herbert gets into a terrible accident with machinery and gets
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killed. His employer arrives at the door the next day and offers Mr. And Mrs. White two hundred
pounds, which is the exact amount Mr. White wished for. After the first wish and Herbert's death
Mrs. White is depressed and awfully affected by her son's death so she tells her husband to wish
him back to life. Mr. White isn't completely sure that that is the right thing to do. But Mrs. White
keeps telling him and begging him to get the paw.
Mr. White actually wishes for his son to come back from the dead. Once he uses the paw
they start hearing sounds and a super loud banging starts at the door. Mrs. White rushes down to the
bolt to see if it is her son who is at the door. While she is rushing down the banging becomes