The two parts of this excerpt from W. W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" show that show the White family doesn't believe in the talisman's power are:
"Sounds like the 'Arabian Nights,'" said Mrs. White, as she rose and began to set the supper.
The 'Arabian Nights' were stories made up by the narrator Scheherazade and told to the King over 1001 nights so that he would not kill her as he had done with so many other women in the past. In this way, it signifies that Mrs. White believes this story to be a made-up tale.
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"Don't you think you might wish for four pairs of hands for me." Her husband drew the talisman from his pocket, and all three burst into laughter
Mr. White is jokingly asking to be given four pairs of hands, something that isn't sensible or realistic, because he does not believe in the power of the talisman to grant wishes. In the end the three burst in laughter as they do not take the talisman, or the story of it's power, seriously.
Answer:
1. "It is a great Dead Place—greater than any Dead Place we know."
2. "Everywhere there are the ruins of the high towers of the gods."
Explanation:
Background or setting is the time and place of a tale, whether it be reality or fiction. As a literary element, it's a must. The location establishes the story's major backdrop and tone.
Passage:
It is not true what some of the tales say, that the ground there burns forever, for I have been there. Here and there were the marks and stains of the Great Burning, on the ruins, that is true. But they were old marks and old stains. It is not true either, what some of our priests say, that it is an island covered with fogs and enchantments. It is not. It is a great Dead Place—greater than any Dead Place we know. Everywhere in it there are god-roads, though most are cracked and broken. Everywhere there are the ruins of the high towers of the gods.
On Plato, the answer is *There will be time, there will be time. To prepare a face to meet the faces you meet.* and *They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!"etc...*
This is because he is imagining what they are going to say to him, giving off a feeling of self-doubt.
Answer:
Stone fox and Sara sees red is different because the main character of stone fox, Willy, is determined to finish the race he has joined. Although at first, no one encouraged him to do that, in the middle of the race, when he saw his Grandfather looking and waving in he goes, that he was even more motivated. Unlike Sara, the main character of Sara sees red, she tried to escape reality by hiking away from your problem. When he met the woman who was hurt, I felt that even despite how painful that the woman was, she tried to ask someone for help.
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Answer:
According to Douglass, laws in the south prove that slaves are human beings in those laws passed in the south punish slaves as punish white men. Douglass used the reference of the laws passed in the southern state of Virginia.
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