The Third Wish

Imagine minding your own buisness and suddenly you hear a life-like wailing nose what do you do? This is what Mr.Peters feels like in the story "The Third Wish." There is a swan that Mr.Peters untangles but then the swan turns into a tiny leprecaun how could that happen? Mr.Peters lives in an ironic world when Leita comes in his life.

Mr.Peters is a man who cares about solving others problems than himself. He had to suffer the consequnces after losing Leita. Also, he never used his last wish. Eventually, Mr.Peters proved that he had to suffer the consequences on page 174 when he said “Two wishes are enough for me. I’ve learned that even if your wishes are granted they don’t always help you”.

The mode of Literature is an Irony because the main character is not in control. The world is unrealistic because the swan turned into a man and that cannot happen in real life situation. The world is a nightmare because Leita has a sister but her sister is a swan and she is a human and she says its hard to be a human in my perspective, it is not hard to be a human. The main character is not in control because his wishes get out of hand and he cannot stop the events that are happening. At the end of the story Mr.Peters dies.

Leita is a swan, but then Mr.Peters turns her into a human which is hard for her because she is used to being a swan. Then there is a conflict that kicks in, Leita has a sister, who is a swan. Then Mr.Peters finds her next to a riverbank crying and holding a goose in her arms. He realizes that Leita was a swan and then Mr.Peters is forced to change her back and then he is lonely once again. At the end of the story Mr.Peters dies on his bed with a smile on his face.

In this ironic story Mr.Peters and Leita both learned that wishes dont help you. Be careful of what you wish for because there are consequences in some wishes that people cannot fix and that wish will haunt them forever.