THE THIRD WISH

Mr. Peters was driving at dusk. As Mr. Peters entered a straight empty stretch of road, he heard cries and struggles as if someone were in trouble. He went to follow the voice. Once he followed the source of the cries, he found a swan entangled in a bed of thorns. As he approached the swan to free it, it struggled more, breaking Mr. Peters arm with its wing. Mr. Peters finally freed the bird and carried it to the verge of the canal and released it. The swan peacefully swam away. The swan turned into a king at the forest. Mr. Peters asked for three wishes. The king gave him three leaves and told him every time he wanted to make a wish, he would blow one of the leaves into the wind and his wish will be granted.

The first was for a wife as beautiful as the forest. He was walking home and he found his beautiful girl walking towards him. They went to the church to get married. After they got married, he showed his new wife his house. She was very impressed, but after a while Mr. Peters noticed that she was not happy. She confessed that she used to be a swan and she missed her sister. He offers to turn her sister into a human, but she refuses. He offers to turn her back into a swan, but she refuses that too. Mr. Peters could tell what his wife really wanted though. So he used his second wish to turn her back into a swan. Her and her sister stayed at the river near Mr. Peters pond.

One day, people heard horrible wailing coming from the swans at Mr. Peters' house. The next morning, they found him dead with a leaf and a white feather clasped into his hand.

Indirect characterization is when you learn things about the character without it being said.

INDIRECT CHARACTeRIZATION OF MR. PETERS

• Helpful
• Kind
• Caring
• Considerate
• Hard working

DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION OF MR. PETERS

• Clever
• Content
• Lonely
• Distressed
• Happy

MOOD

• Curious- Mr. Peters and the swan are curious about each other
• Sorrow - Leita and Mr. Peters don't stay together as humans
• Happiness- Mr. Peters marries Leita
• Mean - the king is mean to Mr. Peters

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• "I wish I had a wife as beautiful as the forest" I wish I had a wife that is extremely beautiful. Simile
• "With eyes as blue - green as the canal" With eyes that are very blue- green. Simile
• "Hair as dusky as the bushes" hair that is very dark. Simile
• "Skin as white as the feathers of a swan." Skin that is really white. Simile

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• "People used to say that he talked to the swans and they understood him as well as his neighbors." People used to say that he talked to the swans and they understood him just like they are people. Simile

THEME

• Be careful what you wish for because you don't know if it'll hurt you later on.
• In the story "the third wish" the man asks for a wife. Later the wife tells the man that she is a swan and she is very sad.