The Literary Elements
The time and place in which a story happens
What is the setting?
He was moving to Bath to start a new job.
Who was Billy Weaver?
This object has a spell on it to grant 3 people 3 wishes each.
What is the monkey's paw?
This is how Mr. Peters is granted three wishes.
What is by rescuing a swan who is the "King of the Forest?"
These people are taken to the mountains and left to die.
Who are the elderly?
The problem in the story
What is the conflict?
The reason Billy Weaver is asked to sign the guestbook in the living room.
What is the law requires it? OR What is so the landlady won't forget his name?
This was Mr. White's first wish.
What is 200 pounds (money)?
This was Mr. Peters' first wish.
What is for a companion (or wife)?
The reason the son decided to disobey the decree that required him to take his mother to the mountains and abandon her to die.
What is the son loved his mother?
The good guy or the main character in a story.
Who is the protagonist?
This is what is wrong with the animals in the living room.
What is dead?
This is Mr. White's second wish.
What is for his son to be alive again?
Leita is unhappy living with Mr. Peters because she was originally this animal.
What is a swan?
This was the first puzzle given to the village by Lord Higa.
The bad guy or villain of the story.
Who is the antagonist?
The reader can infer that the Landlady did what to the two other guests in the boarding house.
What is murdered and preserved their bodies?
The reader can infer that this is Mr. White's third wish.
What is for Herbert to be dead?
This is Mr. Peters' second wish.
What is for Leita to become a swan again?
The reason the mother could solve the problems when no one else in the village could.
What is the mother was old enough to have seen these problems before?
The moral or the lesson of the story. The message the author is trying to send.
What is the theme?
At the end of the Landlady, the reader can infer that this happens to Billy Weaver.
What is murdered by the Landlady?
This Literary Element of the Monkey's Paw is be careful what you wish for.
What is the theme?
The theme of the The Third Wish.
What is if you love someone, set them free?
This is the theme of the story.
What is to respect your elders as they are knowledgable?