The Monkeys Paw by WW Jacob The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :: English Literature

The Monkeys Paw by WW Jacob The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleBoth of these stories have similar characteristics. They atomic number 18 memorableand well described. They are both original. Also locations are veryisolated and mysterious. Each one keeps our interest up to the finaltwist. But there are some differences. The startle and most clear istheir genre. The Monkeys Paw is a horror type story, whereas TheSpeckled Band is a detective story. Other differences are the listof locations within the story. The Speckled Band is set in manydifferent locations some being the office and the Roylett nursing home. Onthe other hand The Monkeys Paw is only set in the family home.The Monkeys Paw opens in a dark and gloomy setting. It becomes moremysterious when Mr. White bears a guilty grin, which makes us wonderwhat is going to happen. The mystery continues further when theSergeant Major arrives and talks of wild scenes from distant parts, ashe has served in the force in India for a long time and has picked upas strange talisman, which has been mummified called the monkeys handwriting.The monkeys grate is special because it can grant you wishes. Mr. Whiteis very excited and precious to know more of this mysterious talisman.The sergeant is trying to put Mr. White off, wanting to have the baseball gloveby saying, the last man that use the paw used his last wish to bedead. The sergeant eventually throws the paw on to the fire but sothat it is easy to retrieve. Mr. White grabs the paw before it canburn.He makes his first wish and wishes for two hundred pounds, whichseems a safe sum. He sees an evil face in the fire and the monkeys pawmoves as if it was alive. This begins to scare and concern him. Whenhis son leaves for work in the morning he jokes about the wish andsays to his parents that the money might drop on his notch from thesky and dont break into the money before I get back. This isironic, as Herbert doesnt return home as he dies at work due to thee vilness of the wish. Around the time Herbert is due home from work, aman in a suit is outside the house that seems reluctant to enter it.Eventually when he does enter it is to break the news of Herbertsdeath. The writer cleverly times this as he introduces a understanding oftension into the plot when the amount of compensation is the exact sum