The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
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Re: The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
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This made me laugh, it's so cute! What a great way to introduce them to scary stories; I love reading pieces that send the cold shiver down my spine. The Monkey's Paw was also one of my first experiences with the genre, and I was introduced to Poe around the same timeteacher_jane1 wrote:I made a horrible mistake in reading this story to my students--they thought it would be a fun story like something from "The Jungle Book," and they were terrified! We recovered by reading "The Tell-Tale Heart" the next day with lots of screaming to let out their emotions, and now they love scary stories
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I wonder if there are versions of this story in other cultures? Stories where the moral is explicitly, "Be careful what you wish for."
Didn't the original Grimm's Fairy Tales have similar morals?
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I may well have read this story a hundred time in my life, it is nearly perfect. And what price, altering destiny, eh?
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It still has the same effect on me.
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