Read this excerpt from "the monkey's paw" by w. w. jacobs. which two lines reflect the theme that men must never go against fate?

These two lines reflect the theme that men must never go against fate:

1. "I don't know what the first two was, but the third was for death. that's how i got the paw"

2. He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow. He put a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it."

Explanation: The actual lesson that Fakir wanted to teach is that fate ruled people's lives.

wood chucks can't chuck wood so no wood

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.