The Monkey’s Paw and the Ghostly Coach: A Tale of Fate and the Supernatural
1.Who is the visitor Mr white were waiting for? Where had he been for the last 21 years?
Mr/ Mrs White were waiting sergeant Major Morris. When he was young he has worked in the warehouse but he had gone to India. He had lived in India for 21 years.
2.What does he tell Mr white about the monkey´s paw? Why did the fakir put a spell on the paw?
Sergeant Mayor Morris told them that an old fakir, that is, a holy man had put a spell on the monkey´s paw so that tree different men could each have three wishes from it. He wanted to show that fate ruled people´s lives and he wanted to let people know that if you made something to interfere whit fate, it would only bring you a deep sadness.
3.How did Sergeant Mayor get the paw? Had he wished for something? Did his three wishes come true? How did he feel about the paw?
He got the paw because the previous owner had died. His third wish had been for death and that´s how the sergeant got it- He had already made three wishes and according to him all of them had come true. He was respectful towards the paw. He felt a great respect and he advised the whites that if they were going to wish for something, it should something reasonable because he knew that wishes would come true.
4.What did Mr White whist for the first time? What happened to the paw when he made the first wish? Why did he find it difficult to decide what to wish for?
Mr White wished for two hundred pounds to finish paying for his house. When he made the first wish, the paw twisted in his hand like a snake. He found it difficult to decide what to wish for because he felt that he had everything he wanted.
5.Who was the strange man at the gate? What news did he bring? Why wasn´t Herbert in pain anymore? How did he die?
The strange man at the gate was a bill, he brings a very painful news, the death of Herbert. He died trapped in the machinery and died in the same moment therefore he did not suffer.
6.Did the firm feel responsible for what had happened? What did they offer the Whites as a kind of compensation for losing their only son?
The firm didn´t feel responsible for what had happened. They offered the Whites two hundred pounds as a compensation for the years Herbert had been working there.
7.How did Mr White react when he received the news?
He reacts in a state of shock, her face was pale, finally the expression on Mr White´s face was dark and serious.
8.Where did they bury their son? Why is this fact relevant? How did they feel after the funeral?
The corpse of their son buried in a huge cemetery two miles away. They were sad and silent after the funeral, waiting for something to happen.
9.What was the second wish? What did Mrs White wish for? Why was her husband afraid of her second wish?
Mrs White wished her son alive again. Her husband was afraid of this because teir son had been dead for ten days and before being buried, when he had the accidente, he was mutilated bu the machinery and he could only recognize him buys his clothes. He was afraid of the appearance that might have, in fact, he refers to his own son as “the thing”.
10.Why didn´t he want her to get out of the bedroom? Did he want her to let “the thing” in?
He didn´t want that her to get out of the bedroom, because Herbert could enter in the house and Mr white was frightened about the aspect that could have his son.
11.What was the third wish? Did it come true? What gave him the courage to run to her side?
His third wish was the death of her own son.
1.Who was the only person he had told the story to? Why did that person think it was only a dream?
He only told the story to one person who was the doctor that treated him after the accident.
He didn´t tell the story to his own wife. The Dr thought that it had been a dream because James was feverish and in a estate of delirium when he was found.
2.What happened to James one December day 20 years ago when he went out hunting?
He had lost in a desolate moor, because of a storm, where the east wind was cold.
3.Where were he and his wife staying?
James and her wife were staying in one little inn.
4.What did he think when he realized that the night had fallen? How did he feel?
He remember stories of travelers who had fallen asleep in the snow and died. He felt frightened.
5.Did the old man want to help him by offering him shelter in his house?
No, because he is the servant of a man who does not like visitants but he accepted to take it at the house of the master.
6.Who is the master? Why did he live in an isolate place? What does he tell James about his life?
The master was a man who studied the supernatural.
He studied spirits, ghost and specters. He lived in such an isolate place because scientist and philosophers had laughed at him and had destroyed his reputation. He had forgotten the world and the world had forgotten him.
7.They invite him to dinner but when it stops snowing they politely invite him to go. Does he have to walk to get back to Dwolding?
No, he didn´t have to walk back to Dwolding. He could get the night mail coach from the north that went to Dwolding and Jacob was going to guide him to a crossroads where he could get on the coach that would take him to the place where his wife was waiting for him.
8.Why did the old man tell James to be careful near the signpost?
He told him to be careful because the road near the signpost was steep and narrow. He warned him to be careful especially near the signpost because the stone wall was broken and it hadn´t been repaired since the accident.
9.How many passengers were travelling inside the coach that fell into the valley?
In the coach were travelling four passengers. The coachman, the guard and an outside passenger died too.
10.How many passenger were travelling inside the coach that stopped for James? Why is this fact relevant?
In the coach that stopped James had been three passenger and the coachman. This fact is relevant because the coach that fell into the valley as the same that stopped for James.
11.When did he start to fell ill? What was the coach like?
He was beginning to feel ill when the icy coldness penetrate to his bones and te strange smell in the coach was making he feel nauseous.
12.Could you describe the passengers on the mail coach? What was his reaction when he saw how the passengers looked like?
The passengers has got eyes glowed an unnatural red. His face was as purple as a corpse and his lips were pulled back as if in the agony of death, showing his bright teeth
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The reaction of James was an awful horror.
13.What happened to James at the end of the story?
James Jumped from the carriage at the Same Time When the coach broken the wall where the signpost was situated.