Boekverslag W.W. Jakobs

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Titel:	The monkey's paw
Auteur:	Jakobs, W.W.
Jaar van uitgave:	1902

Auteur:	Jakobs, W.W.
Geslacht:	man
Nationaliteit:	Engels
Populaire titels:	1902The monkey's paw (1)

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Answer the following questions before reading:

1 Why did you choose this book?
Because it was something with ‘monkey’ in it, so I think it was a funny story.

2 Is it a book for boys or girls? What make you think so?
Both, because it is an ordinary story.

3 What kind of book is it going to be?
I think some kind of African stile.

While reading write down some keywords about every chapter.
This way you can make a short book review.
Family White is a happy family, but they haven’t much money. So Mr. White wants to have more money, but he knows it can’t. Then an old friend came take a visit and he have been a soldier in India. He has received a monkey’s paw from an old Indian man. You can do three wishes with it and he wish a car and lots of money. But his wife and son died by a car accident. So he didn’t like the money and wish that all money was away. He said to family White it brings unhappiness, but Mr. White wants to buy it. He buys it but the soldier said again it brings unhappiness. Mr. White didn’t listen and when the soldier was gone he wished he had thirty thousand pound. The next day the boss of Herbert (there son) came and said Herbert was dead in an accident in de factory. The boss wants to give them financially help in this unhappy time; it was exactly thirty thousand pound. Then in a cold night Mrs. White wish to see her son again. But Mr. White said she mustn’t do that, because he was in the machines when he died and wish they were both away.

After reading the book you could answer the following questions:

1 What is the title?
The Monkey’s Paw.

2 Who is the author?
W.W. Jacobs.

3 How would you explain the title?
The monkey’s paw could make wishes true.

4 Who tells the story?
Someone who’s not in the story.

5 When does this story take place? What year(s)?
I don’t two when, because it’s not in the story.

6 Where does the story take place and is that place important for the story? Explain!
In the house of the family White, it’s not very important, because it can happen everywhere

7 What kind of book was this?
It was something like soft horror.

8 Which part did you like best and why?
The part that a friend of Mr. White came tell stories about India.

9 Which character would you like to be and why?
Mrs. White, because she think she know that’s the paw brings unhappiness and she’s right.

10 Which character do you dislike and why?
Mr. White, because it goes him all about the money.

11 Did you like the end of the book? If you didn’t, you could try to write down how it should have ended!
Yes it’s was a very good end. It was at once ended.

12 Has the main character changed throughout the story?
Yes, he know that money is not the most important thing of all

13 Is there a moment in the book where everything changes (a turning point)?
Yes, if the boss of there son and say there son is dead.

14 What is the lesson in this book? (de moraal van het verhaal)
That money is not the most important in your life.

15 Should you fellow pupils also read this book and why (not)?
Yes, you could learn much, but the lesson is too easy I think. you could better have a book with a complicated lesson in it.

16 What mark would you give for this book?
7