The Monkey's Paw
Storyboard Text
- The Monkey's Paw
- The Monkey's Paw
- Exposition
- Checkmate!
- Rising Action
- I'll take it!
- Be careful of what you wish for.
- Climax
- Herbert!
- The White family is in the parlor of Laburnam Villa. Mr. White and his son, Herbert, are playing chess. Sergeant-Major Morris comes to visit them. He tells the interested family about his years of traveling , and mentions a bewitched monkey's paw. They become curious and want to know more, but Morris is hesitant to tell them about it, for it has caused many tragedies.
- Falling Action
- My son is gone!
- Morris tries to burn the monkey's paw, but Mr. White is interested in keeping it. Mr. White wishes for 200 pounds. The next day, the family gets news that Herbert has died from a machinery accident at his workplace. The company offers them 200 pounds as compensation. They grieve for weeks until one night Mrs. White remembers that they still have two wishes left and urges her husband to wish for Herbert to be alive again. Mr. White does not want to wish anymore, but he does and they hear loud knocking on their door.
- Resolution
- Mr. White frantically searches for the paw and hastily makes the third wish. He wishes for his son to go away, reversing the second wish and using up all of the monkey's paw.
- The second wish is effectively reversed, and the knocking stops. Mrs. White wails.
- Mrs. White opens the door and is met with an empty street. The monkey's paw has caused unrepairable sorrow for the family
- No...
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