Read this passage from “The Monkey’s Paw.” What would be the best way to write it in first person point of view without changing the resolution of the story? The knocking ceased suddenly, although the echoes of it were still in the house. He heard the chair drawn back, and the door opened. A cold wind rushed up the staircase, and a long loud wail of disappointment and misery from his wife gave him the courage to run down to her side, and then to the gate beyond. The street lamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet and deserted road.

I quit knocking at the door, but you could still hear the echoes. As the door opened, I heard my mother give a long wail of disappointment. My father ran down the stairs and out to the gate, but they never saw me on the road.

I told those people not to make the wish. I heard later that there was a knocking on the door that suddenly ceased. The old lady drew back the chair and the door opened. My friend heard her long wail of disappointment and misery and ran down to her. Then he ran out to the gate. The street lamp shone on a quiet and deserted road.

The knocking ceased suddenly, but I could still the echoes of it. I heard the chair drawn back, and the door open. A cold wind rushed up the staircase as I heard a long wail of disappointment and misery from my wife. This gave me the courage to run down to her, and then out to the gate. The street lamp flickered on a quiet and deserted road.

The knocking ceased suddenly, but I could still hear the echoes of it. I drew the chair back and the door opened. A cold wind rushed up the staircase and I gave a long loud wail of disappointment and misery. That gave my husband the courage to run down to my side, and then he ran out to the gate. He couldn’t see anything there.

i would say the correct answer is not concrete.

might need to ask questions people no or have read somthing about.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.