Harry and the monkey’s paw
The Three things that make a good ghost story are mystery, death and fear. of the unknown because if the story had the ghost at the start then not again then it would be a boring. Secondly we are fantasised by death because if there were now death then the story would be plain and simple. Thirdly we are attracted by fear and gory stories if there was no gory bits then no one reed it. We are also fantasised by the phrase “it could be you.” This sets the mood for the story.
The two stories that we are comparing are Harry, which was written in 1990’s wrote by rosemary Timperly Harry is about a young lonely girl who used to be in a family of four. But when she was still in a cot her family were going through financial problems so one night he left the gas on and tried to kill them but the son woke up grabbed his sister and jumped out of the 5th story window to save his sister. He is a ghost to Christine he is seen through any rose bushes Harry isn’t a typical ghost story. It is set on a hot sunny day in the middle of a city. “The sharp shadows on the long grass.”
The second story is the monkey’s paw wrote before 1900’s, which was written by Jacobs The monkeys paw is about an old man and an old woman that live in the middle of a wood they meet an old army general who gives them an monkeys paw but says its cursed. Ignoring that they wish for two hundred pounds their son gets mangled in a machine and gets killed, as compensation they get two hundred pounds this is a sign of the curse The monkey’s paw is typical ghost stories because it is set on dark gloomy night in the middle of no were “it was a character is Harry the ghost he has red hair and is Christine’s sister dark gloomy wet night.”
In Harry the main characters are Christine she is five years old and has an old imaginary companion. Another character is the old lady she lives in an old derelict house was Harry died eyewitness to Harry’s death.
Another main
The main characters the monkeys paw are the white mother sons of Herbert. Another main character is Morris he is an outsider who gave them the paw.
Harry is Christine’s sister who is seen through a white rose bush
His peruse is to get his sister back to the other side. “Such ordinary things make me afraid. Sunshine. Sharp shadows on grass. White roses. Children with red hair. And the name Harry. Such an ordinary name.
We never see the ghost in the monkeys paw but there is a sense that it is there! “It’s Herbert!” she screamed “its Herbert!”
Timperly uses short sentences to create suspense. “White roses.” Timperly also uses symbolic colours also to create suspense. “Red hair.” The repetition of the start and the finish “such ordinary things make me afraid. Sunshine. Sharp shadows on grass. White roses Children with red hair. And the name Harry. Such an ordinary name.”
The way Timperly refers to heat and sunshine makes the story more untypical ghost story “light into darkness.”
Timperly makes the story untypical by the way she doesn’t make the story set in a typical way “it was a hot, beautiful day.”
The monkey’s paw is a typical ghost story by the way he uses old-fashioned words and very detailed descriptions e.g. he herd the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back.”
I think that Harry is the most affective story because it has quite a few twists and it is untypical ghost story because it is set on a hot summers day.
