Is Sergeant-Major Morris responsible?
Imagine, a shadowy character walking up to your house with a mummified monkey's paw that can grant wishes. In the story The Monkey's Paw, a character named sergeant-Major Morris comes to the White’s home and has a mummified monkey’s paw. Mr. White then gets the monkey's paw and makes 3 wishes. His wishes were for 200 pounds, Which caused his son’s death. The second wish was for his son alive again, but when he came back his son was mutilated and mangled. Mr. Whites third and last wish was for his son to die again. Equally Important, the main character, Sergeant-Major morris is not responsible for the events that occur.
To begin, Sergeant-Major Morris tried to destroy the monkey’s paw, showing that he is not responsible for the following events. In the story, it states, “I threw it on the fire. If you keep it, don’t blame me for what happens. Pitch it on the fire like a sensible man” (Jacobs). This proves that Sergeant-Major morris is not responsible, because he tried to destroy the paw. Sergeant-Major knew what the paw could do, so he was trying to get rid of it for good. If Mr. White never took it out the fire, it would have never done any harm to his family. The story The Monkey’s Paw…show more content… White about the paws consequences, there four he is not responsible. To begin, Morris wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow. The story states, “He put a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it.” This quote means that the Fakir wanted to show that fate should not be messed with. Last, Sergeant-Major morris is not responsible because he was warning Mr. White. It was not Sergeant-Major morris’s fault that Mr. White used the paw. Mr. White could have listened to Sergeant-Major Morris and let the paw burn, but Herbert White made him
