ACTIVITY SHEET IN ENGLISH 9
NAME: RISHA ZITA B. VELASQUEZ
TIME STARTED: Tuesday, 6:22 pm
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Summary
-Write a brief summary of
the story. No more that [5]
sentences.
SECTION: IX-RIZAL
TIME FINISHED: Monday, 10:57 pm
DIRECTIONS:
The Monkey’s Paw
The White family prevents a
guest from destroying a
monkey's paw that has the
power to grant three wishes in
"The Monkey's Paw." After his
son's tragic death, Mr. White
wishes for money, which he
receives from the factory
where his son works that
claims that their son has passed
away due to a tragic accident.
They then wish for their son to
come back, and something
knocks at the door. Yet Mr.
White's third wish prompted
whoever was there to vanish,
so when Mrs. White opens the
door, nothing is there.
The Contract
While Watanuki is busy
clearing out Yuko's
storage area, a woman
stops by and asks about
one of the items, which is
shaped like some kind of
thermos or kaleidoscope
tube. Yuko lets her borrow
it but she warns the
woman never to open it.
Later, Watanuki discovers
that the woman is a
student teacher who is
working on her thesis. The
woman had not opened
the tube yet, but then in an
accident on the stairs, the
object flies in the air, and
ends up being opened. The
student-teacher discovers
the item is a monkey's
paw, which grants wishes
to the user. But as with
any monkey's paw legend,
there are tragic
consequences for every
wish. As the story
progresses, the student-
teacher uses the first wish
for rain that would until
the evening, for her

PLOT
-Outline the plot paying
particular note to the parts of
the plot
[i.e introduction, rising
action, climax, etc]
INTRODUCTION
Outside, the night was cold and
wet but a fire burned brightly
in the small living room of
Laburnum Villa, where Mr
White and his son Herbert
were playing chess. Mrs White, shaped like some kind of
a white-haired old lady, sat
knitting by the fire,
occasionally commenting on
the game.
EXPOSITION
On a dark cold night at the
Laburnam Villa, the White
family is awaiting a visitor.
Mr. White and his son,
Herbert, are playing chess
while Mrs. White knits by the the tube yet, but then in an
fire. Sergeant-Major Morris
then arrives and regales the
family with tales from his 21
years of travelling to vast and and ends up opening all on
exotic places in his temure as a
soldier.
CONFLICT
Mr. White reminds Morris of a
story he was telling him
recently regarding a strange
monkey’s paw he aquired in
second wish, she wishes
for a mirror from Yuko’s
shop, the same place she
got the monkey’s paw, her
third wish was for her
thesis about folklore to be
unique, her fourth wish
was for her to find a valid
excuse to give to her
professor for being late
which cost the life of the
woman next to her in the
train station, after her
wishes backfired against
her, she used her fifth and
last wish to make herself
disappear.
INTRODUCTION
While Watanuki is busy
clearing out Yuko's
storage area, a woman
stops by and asks about
one of the items, which is
thermos or kaleidoscope
tube. Yuko lets her borrow
it but she warns the
woman never to open it.
EXPOSITION
Later, Watanuki discovers
that the woman is a
student teacher who is
working on her thesis. The
woman had not opened
accident on the stairs, the
object flies in the air, only
to be caught by Himiwari
its own. The woman
discovers the item is a
monkey's paw, which
grants five wishes to the
user. But as with any
monkey's paw legend,
there are tragic
 India. It supposedly was
bewitched by an old fakir to
grant three separate men three
wishes. Mr. White wants the
paw but Sergeant-Major
Morris is reluctant, saying it
causes trouble.
RISING ACTION
Sergeant-Major Morris throws
the paw into the fire and Mr.
Whit rescues it. Mr. White
makes his first wish, a sum of
200 pounds. There’s a loud
crashing noise and the paw
moves. The next day, the
Whites receive word that
Herbert was caught in the
machinery at work and died.
The company their son worked
for compensates the Whites
with a check for 200 pounds.
CLIMAX
The Whites are shaken by how
their wish came true and filled
with grief from losing their
only child. Mrs. White
persuades Mr. White to wish
that Herbert was alive again.
Mr. White then finds the paw
and makes the wish; all of a
sudden, there is a quiet,
persistent knocking at the door.
FALLING ACTION
The knocking becomes louder.
Mrs. White wants to run to the
door, frantic to let Herbert in,
but Mr. White holds her back
because he knows the
wickedness the paw is capable
of and is afraid of what kind of
“state” Herbert might be in.
She breaks free and runs to the
door, but she can’t reach the
bolt. Mr. White searches for
the paw.
RESOLUTION
consequences for every
wish. Watanuki and
Doumeki are skeptical of
the woman's sudden
declaration at the item, but
this doesn't seem to deter
her though as she merely
looks at them and
confidently declares that
her first wish is for it to
rain from then on until the
evening. A finger breaks,
and the wish is granted.
Later on, at the shop,
Watanuki tells Yuko that
the woman had managed
to open the container and
had already made a wish,
which explained the rain
that had indeed began to
fall. He then asks Yuko if
the Monkey's Paw is real,
to which she replies, yes.
CONFLICT
The next day upon his
arrival to school,
Watanuki noticed a crowd
of his peers around the
windows, and asks a
nearby Himawari what the
commotion is about. She
says it is because the
school's pool is suddenly
empty. Meanwhile the
woman hides in one of the
empty offices and is
suddenly skeptical of
herself. She speaks to
herself about the rain. She
states that it could be a
fluke, and decides to make
another wish. She then
decides to wish for a
mirror that she has been
eyeing but not having
been able to purchase
 Just as his wife gets a chair,
climbs up, and slides back the
bolt, Mr. White finds the paw
and makes his final wish. The
knocking suddenly stops. Mrs.
White opens the door, only to
find that there’s no one there
inside another antique
store. A finger breaks, and
a sudden thud behind her
makes her turn behind to
see that the mirror she
coveted is now lying on
the floor. Ecstatic because
of her new mirror, she
glances back at the
monkey's paw to find that
the Thumb and Index
fingers are broken. She
concludes that a finger
breaks after each wish,
and is happy to find that
she has three wishes left.
Later at the shop, Yuko
tells Watanuki that
something cannot be born
from nothing, which was
why the pool was empty,
as its water was used for
the rain. She also receives
a call later that night -or
early in the morning- from
a friend of hers that owns
an antique store, and
learns that she is now
missing a priceless mirror.
Yuko assures her that she
will look for it.
RISING ACTION
The next day the woman
is seen sitting in a library
apparently working on her
thesis paper, which was
not as easy as she assumed
it would be. She states that
she wants the paper to be
unique, unlike all the other
folklore papers before it.
Frustrated after a call from
her professor, she looks
down at her purse and
notices the monkey's paw
container hidden beneath a
 few of her books. She
pulls it out and begins to
smile. About to make a
comment, the trio notices
the woman nearby
laughing and running with
a few other teens. After a
good sounding phone call
with her professor,
Himiwari makes a
comment about how
happy she looks, to which
she beams at them and
says that her professor
was deeply impressed
with her thesis and even
spoke about getting it
published. She mentions
that she asked the
monkey's paw for the
materials, to which
Doumeki warns her again
about the legend behind
the monkey's paw. She
confidently replies that it
had hurt others in the past,
but would not hurt her.
CLIMAX
The next day focuses on
the student-teacher who
has jogged into a train
station apparently over-
sleeping and missing her
train to school. A voice
over the intercom states
that her train is having
delays, and would not
arrive on time, to which
she laments further due to
her final class being today.
She begins to think about
an excuse, and mistakenly
thinks about an accident
happening, so she would
have a plausible excuse
for missing such an
important class. A crack is
heard from inside her bag,
and suddenly the woman
next to her is hurled into
the train tracks, getting
violently killed by an
oncoming train. The
monkey's paw had granted
a wish on its own.
FALLING ACTION
Horror stricken, later that
day, the student-teacher is
seen hiding in the empty
office again, speaking to
herself. She is now
terrified of the monkey's
paw, her cellphone then
rings and her professor
angrily accuses her of
stealing another student’s
work, as the student had
already submitted their
notes prior. The student-
teacher goes into a panic,
and begins thinking about
what would happen to her
if the police found out it
was her that caused the
accident, revealing that
she pushed the woman on
her own. Angry knocks
begin pounding on the
door, causing the terrified
woman to scream at the
monkey's paw for her to
disappear. The final finger
breaks, and the monkey's
paw sits up on its own and
begins to choke the
woman. She falls
backwards gasping for air
until it is suddenly quiet.
The camera switches to
the opposite side of the
door where a group of
students are standing

Characters
-Name and brief description
of the characters
 Herbert White (The
only son of Mr. and Mrs.
White)
 Mrs. White (Herbert’s have their wishes granted,
mother and Mr. White’s wife)
 Mr. White (Herbert’s
father and Mrs. White’s
husband)
 Sergeant-Major Morris Watanuki
(A friend of the Whites who
introduces the monkey’s paw
to them)
 The Representative
(The man who informs Mr. and 
Mrs. White of Herbert’s death) woman
outside the door trying to
get in. Watanuki,
Himiwari and Doumeki
stop and regard them with
confusion, as that door
should be open during the
day. Himiwari opens the
door to reveal no one
inside. As the camera
moves away, it reveals the
woman's cellphone is
lying on the ground open.
RESOLUTION
The episode ends with the
monkey's paw returning to
Yuko's shop along with
the mirror returning to its
original shop. Yuko binds
the whole paw again, and
sets it on the shelf,
regarding how it "always
wins". She leaves with the
camera still focused on the
paw. The container it
resides in slowly closes
and locks.
 Yūko Ichihara (a
witch who owns a shop
where people come to
and the person who let the
student-teacher borrow the
monkey’s paw)
 Kimihiro
(a young
student with supernatural
abilities and one of the
few people who tried to
warn the student-teacher)
Student-teacher (a
who is focusing
on her thesis about
folklore, who in the end,
faces the consequences
behind her actions towards
the monkey’s paw)

The main setting of "The
Monkey's Paw" is inside and
SETTING
around the White family home,
-Describe the setting of the
called Laburnam Villa in
story
England around the turn of the
20th century, around 1902.
The main themes in “The
Monkey’s Paw” are fate (it’s
relevance in human life), the
unknown (it portrays it’s risks stubbornness (how people
THEME
while dramatizing the tension
-What is the theme of the
between the known and the
story?
unknown), grief and loss (it
depicts their psychological
effects), and being careful
about what you wish for.
SIMILARITIES The original short story and the episode both revolve around
-How similar are these two the folkloric artifact, the monkey’s paw. In these two stories,
tales? Which areas are they both characters who acquired the monkey’s paw were
the same? blinded by it’s wish granting power and made reckless
 Shizuka Dōmeki (a
young student and
seeminglt close friend of
Watanuki’s who also tries
to warn the student-
teacher about the
monkey’s paw)
 Himawari Kunogi
(a young student and
seemingly close friend of
Watanuki’s who
accidentally bumps into
the student-teacher, hence,
accidentally opening the
tube-like container
containing the monkey’s
paw)
The episode takes place in
Yuko’s residence. As the
story progresses, it sets in
the school the student-
teacher teaches in and
where Watanuki studies.
After this, is the train
station, then what happens
to appear as the empty
office, then lastly, Yuko’s
closet.
The main themes in “The
Contract” are success and
power (the things people
are willing to do to
achieve this),
are most likely to do
something when it is
forbidden), greed (every
selfish act and wish done
by the woman for her own
personal wants and
needs), and being careful
about what you wish for.
 wishes and decisions without carefully considering the
consequences behind their actions. Both users wished for
their own personal desires and in the end, the monkey’s paw
has taken a life in both stories, and lastly, both stories had
the same last wish; for someone to disappear.
 The monkey’s paw  The monkey’s paw
granted 3 wishes. granted 5 wishes.
 They acquired the  The monkey’s paw
monkey’s paw by rescuing it was acquired by
from being burned by a family borrowing it from Yuko’s
friend. shop.
 The user used it to gain  The user used it
wealth and to bring their son for their personal needs,
DIFFERENCES back, then in the end, to make like the research for their
-Which areas did the story whatever was knocking at the thesis.
vary? door to disappear.  The monkey’s paw
 The monkey’s paw took the life of the
took the life of Herbert White. student-teacher.
 The story ended with a  The story ended
more peaceful ending since rather more tragically
they were able to prevent since the user was not
whatever was trying to enter careful with making her
their home before anything last wish, causing her
worse happened. death.

PARENT’S SIGNATURE: ELAINE B. VELASQUEZ