LISTENING 1. Here is an interesting story. The story has been told in tw
ways. Story A has all the odd sentences (1,3,5,...) and story!
take up Story A and the other take up Story B. The person
has the even sentences (2,4,6,...). Working in pairs, one of you
with Story A will read out the first sentence and the partne
(person with story B) will write in the space provided. Then the
person with Story B will read sentence two and the partner
will write in the space for sentence two. Likewise complete the
whole story. Once the story is completed, both of you will read
out to each other to check whether you have listened carefully
to your partner and written the complete story.
tory A
The Race
Story B The Race
1.
y evening the animals of the
hlipatti used to sit under
banyan tree.
PRESSIONS 2 - Cuss X

"the monkey's paw" is a rare story in that the theme is actually stated in the story. sgt. maj. morris tells the whites that the old fakir who put the spell on the paw said, "fate rules people's lives and those who interfere with fate do so to their sorrow." the message is a warning, but mr. white doesn't believe it. even though sgt. maj. morris makes it clear that he tried wishing with unfortunate results and he tries to throw the paw on the fire,   mr. white makes a wish for 200 pounds only to find that he receives the money when herbert dies in a factory accident. according to the fakir, then, because mr. white had wished for something he should not have had, his son lost his life.

the second wish that mrs. white encourages him to make is for herbert's return--one week after his death. when the strange knocking begins at the door during the windy night, mr. white panicks, believing that the previously dead but still mangled herbert could have walked home from the cemetary and is now at the door. because he fears what his wife will find if she opens the door, mr. white makes his third wish--for the noise to stop.

therefore, he uses his three wishes and to his sorrow, loses his son and disappoints his wife, who fervently believed that their son was at the door. she wanted him back, regardless of his condition.

explanation:

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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