A story is divided into different elements. One of the most important elements is plot, which is the sequence of events in a story. A story’s plot can be divided into a 5 step structure that consists of the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution(1). This 5 step structure is driven by a problem that the characters in the story are trying to solve, known as the conflict. The conflict is what makes the story progress, through a process called plot development. Plot development not only allows the writer to keep the story in order, but also allows him or her to determine when and where the story will stop. The following paragraphs will serve to demonstrate plot development in “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacob. In “The
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After a week, the father wakes up at the sound of his wife crying out the window for her son and he tells her to close the window so she won’t get cold, but she refuses by saying “It is colder for my son,”, so he just goes back to sleep(3[pg.31]). The first event is when the father gets up the second time alarmed because of his wife saying in a wild cry “The paw!”, so she started looking for it and asking her husband where it was, and when the husband told her, saying “…in the parlor, on the bracket,” she told him the idea of wishing their son back to life, because they still had two more wishes(3[pg.31]). Then, the father argues with her intention of using their second wish to bring their son back to life by saying “Was not that enough?” because of the consequences that it might bring and how he might look after being dead for ten days, but she replied “Do you think I fear the child I have nursed?”, so he got it and still arguing with her, “It is foolish and wicked,”, he wished(3[pg.32]). The next event would be the family was waiting in the darkness for their son. The father, tired from the discomfort that the darkness gave him, went down to get a candle and on his way down heard a knock on the door which kept getting louder. The third event would be when Ms. White goes storming down the stairs wanting to see her son, but Mr. White holds her and
After a week, the father wakes up at the sound of his wife crying out the window for her son and he tells her to close the window so she won’t get cold, but she refuses by saying “It is colder for my son,”, so he just goes back to sleep(3[pg.31]). The first event is when the father gets up the second time alarmed because of his wife saying in a wild cry “The paw!”, so she started looking for it and asking her husband where it was, and when the husband told her, saying “…in the parlor, on the bracket,” she told him the idea of wishing their son back to life, because they still had two more wishes(3[pg.31]). Then, the father argues with her intention of using their second wish to bring their son back to life by saying “Was not that enough?” because of the consequences that it might bring and how he might look after being dead for ten days, but she replied “Do you think I fear the child I have nursed?”, so he got it and still arguing with her, “It is foolish and wicked,”, he wished(3[pg.32]). The next event would be the family was waiting in the darkness for their son. The father, tired from the discomfort that the darkness gave him, went down to get a candle and on his way down heard a knock on the door which kept getting louder. The third event would be when Ms. White goes storming down the stairs wanting to see her son, but Mr. White holds her and