The Monkey's Paw is the story of the White family. One day the family receives a visit from an old friend, Sergeant-Major Morris, who has traveled abroad in his military service and has come into possession of a preserved monkey's paw said to grant three wishes to its holder. Morris tries to dispose of the paw, but Mr. White claims it for himself only to discover that its wishes are poisoned with ironic twists of fate.
The story is told by the murderer himself the first person narrator speaking on the eve of his execution for the crime of killing his wife He begins his account in the remote past of his own childhood The narrator says that he was an extremely sensitive boy so passive that his schoolmates teased him He explains that as a child he always had a passion for animals Since he had this passion for animals his parents allowed him to have a great variety of pets growing up So early in his marriage he w
The Black Cat From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions I was especially fond of animals and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets With these I spent most of my time and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them This peculiarity of character grew with my growth and in my manhood I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure To those w
The Global South Who Really Cares A global disease is one that does not care about borders doesnt care if a country is developed or developing if a country is in the global north or in the global south all it cares about is infecting as many people as possible A global disease is one that travels throughout the entire world infecting and destroying as much as possible In his book The Hot Zone Richard Prestons describes the spread of a global disease of a filovirus known as Ebola Throughout the