The story "The Monkey's Paw" shows how playing with fate can result in harmful doings. This book also has many examples of foreshadowing that the White family refused to recognize.
I personally believe that there is no plan set out for our lives, I think that whatever happens, happens, and there is no reason for its occurrence. I think that higher beings set choices for us along the way, but there is no right and no wrong decision. In this story I believe that the family did believe in fate but they refused to see what they were doing. Mr. White asked for £200, in return he lost his son in an accident and as compensation for the family, his sons company gave them £200. The family tried to receive the money but it obviously wasn't supposed to happen that way. So their wish was granted, but they had to sacrifice something; their son. Whereas the father thought that it was fate that was suppose to take his son then and that their wish had not come true, because everything was supposed to happen that way.
Later on in the story, Mrs. White wants to use one of their wishes to bri
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She could not see the dangers that lay ahead. Morris told the family of the last person who had the paw; his last wish was of death to himself. I felt that foreshadowing and fate were the most important themes. I do not have the same believes about fate that the family did. They may now realize the foreseeing that they so confidently overlooked. In some ways I do not blame the family for being curious about the paw but the fact that they were warned so much about it and yet the continued to ignore that shows that the family was somewhat selfish. I believe that they still will because his wife will never forgive him for reversing the wish. White rushed to open it but for some reason Mr. Them playing with fate had resulted in bad occurrence for them and they will always remember what happened. The family refused to see how bad the monkey's paw was.
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