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'The Monkey's Paw'

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'The Monkey's Paw' er en engelsk-opgave fra 2022 til 2.g el. lign., afleveret til karakteren 7. Fylder 7 sider (3.808 ord, ca. 17 min. læsning) og blev publiceret 6. juni 2026.

'The Monkey's Paw' er en berømt gyserfortælling af W. W. Jacobs. Historien følger familien White, der får en magisk abepote, som kan opfylde tre ønsker. Hvert ønske medfører dog forfærdelige og uventede resultater, der udforsker temaer som skæbne, grådighed og konsekvenserne af at manipulere med det ukendte.

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WITHOUT, THE NIGHT was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Lakesnam

Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at

chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes,

putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked

comment from the whitehaired old lady knitting placidly by the fire.

"Hark at the wind," said Mr. White, who, having seen a fatal mistake after

it was too late, was amiably desirous of preventing his son from seeing it.

"I'm listening," said the latter, grimly surveying the board as he stretched

out his hand. "Check."

"I should hardly think that he'd come tonight," said his father, with his

hand poised over the board.

"Mate," replied the son.

"That's the worst of living so far out," bawled Mr. White, with sudden and

unlooked-for violence; "of all the beastly, slushy, out-of-the-way places to

live in, this is the worst. Pathway's a bog, and the road's a torrent. I don't

know what people are thinking about. I suppose because only two houses on the

road are let, they think it doesn't matter."

"Never mind, dear," said his wife soothingly; "perhaps you'll win the next

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