Monkeys paw

• the night was cold, wet

• Unexplainable events

• Supernatural events - faces in the fire, paw's moving

• It is not said if the wishes are really granted by the paw, we dont know if the knocking was caused by the son, the road was empty, wind got into the house

• Emotions: mysery, disappointment, fear

• Ticking of the clock, candles, shadows,

• Opessive darkness

• Old woman, old man,

• Cemetry, shadowy house, silence

• Loneliness

• Old woman - emotions: hysterical, laughing and crying,

• Decay of a family (siedzieli przy kominku wszystko super grali w szachy a potem jeb)

• Fear of the protagonist, he was affraid of his wife

• Small passages, night,

• Weather predicts the upcoming events - wind higher than ever, banging on the door, everything lasted till the end of the night

• Old woman in the window

• Thinking that son can be alive because of the wish

 "'It had a spell put on it by an old fakir,' said the sergeant-major, 'a very holy man. He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did it to their sorrow.'"

Sergeant-Major Morris – show the paw, tells the story that a fakir (a mystic miracle worker) placed a spell on the paw to prove that people’s lives are governed by fate and it’s dangerous to meddle with fate.

three men can ask three wishes, the sergeant had three and a man had three as well

he throws the paw into the fire, mr White rescues it, sergeant explains how to make a wish