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Essay 2 Assignment

A Response Paper on W.W. Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw”

1. Read the pdf of W.W. Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw.”

2. Write a response paper on one of the topics below. Consult Writing About Literature, p. 1147 in your textbook (Response Paper, p. 1192) if you have not done so. Read the sample papers provided. write your Intro paragraph, with title, hook, and thesis. Then add your Body Paragraph 1, making sure that you have a Topic Sentence that matches title and thesis.

3. Choose one of the following topics to write your essay on:

• The main characters in the story and their conflicts

(Sergeant Major Morris and the Maw and Meggins messenger can be included,

even though they are not main characters.)

• Mr. White’s three wishes

• The nine wishes in the story

• The main theme(s) in the story

• Rationality vs emotion (conflict between Mr. and Mrs. White)