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Character | a person in a novel, play, or movie
Mr. Peters | Mr. Peters is a caring old man who is content with the life that he has. The only thing that was missing was a companion to end his loneliness.
King of the Forest | The King of the Forest was "a little man all in green with ~ golden crown and
long beard... He had fierce
glittering eyes and looked by no means friendly" (Aiken). The King had given the three wishes to Mr. Peters.
Leita | Leita was a swan that turned into a beautiful woman at the command of Mr. Peters first wish.

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Setting | the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place
On the bank of the canal in the forest of Severnake.

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Symbol | a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process.
Leaves | represent the three wishes

Swans | represents

Gold necklace | represents his marriage to Letia

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Point of View | particular attitude or way of considering a matter.
Third Person Limited

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Motif | a dominant idea or feature in a literary work :
Wish, Swan, Three Leaves

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Mood | a temporary state of mind and feeling : Tranquil, Placid
Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, situation, etc : Serene, Neutral, Solemn

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"I expect three wishes, no more and no less,"
answered Mr. Peters, looking at him steadily
and with composure.
"Three wishes, he wants, the clever man~ Well,
I have yet to hear of the human being who made
any good use of his three wish they mostly end up
worse off than they started. Take your three wishes
then-" he flung three dead leaves in the air "-don't
blame me if you spend the last wish in undoing the
work of the other two." (Aiken)

"I wish I had a wife as beautiful as the
forest."A tremendous quacking and splashing broke
out on the surface of the water. He thought that it
was the swan laughing at him. [...] Coming along
the track towards him was the most beautiful
creature he had ever seen, with eyes as blue-green
as the canal, hair as dusky as the bushes, and skin
as white as the feathers of swans.
"Are you the wife that I wished for?" asked
Mr. Peters.
"Yes I am," she replied. "My name is Leita." (Aiken)

Then he knew that it was hopeless and she would never be happy as a human. He stooped down and kissed her goodbye, then took another leaf from his notecase, blew it out of the window, and used up his second wish. Next moment instead of Leita there was a sleeping swan lying across the bed with its head under its wing. He carried it out of the house and down to the brink of the river, and then he said, "Leita! Leita!" to waken her, and gently put her into the water. She gazed round her in astonishment for a moment, and then came up to him and rested her head lightly against his hand; next instant she was flying away over the trees towards the heart of the forest. (Aiken)

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Theme | the overall message of the story
The theme of the story was to put others before yourself. Mr. Peters used his second wish to turn his wife, Leita, back into a swan after he noticed she was unhappy. He then still spent time with Leita as they loved each other even when she was a swan he never wished for another wife and was faithful to her until death.

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Conflict | a situation a character(s) faces that stops  them in their path.
Internal Conflict | Mr. Peters is struggling with the wishes and how to use them for good purposes.
External Conflict | After getting three wishes he trying to please his wife  as she deals with human life.

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Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid : '"I wish I had a wife as beautiful as the forest"' (Aiken).
Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction : "All night the song went on, sweet and harsh, sharp
and clear" (Aiken).
Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work : ""But I miss the old life in the forest, the cool grass and the mist rising off
the river at sunrise and the feel of the water sliding
over my feathers as my sister and I drifted along the stream" (Aiken).
Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form : "The swan instantly assumed great dignity and
sailed out to the middle of the water, where it put
itself to rights with much dabbling and preening,
smoothing its feathers with little showers of drops" (Akien).

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Summary | a brief statement or account of the main points of something.
Mr. Peters was driving home and he heard strange noises, he found a swan entangled in thorns on a canal bank. Mrs. Peters saved the swan and the swan simply swam away then the swan  swam back to the bank again and a little man wih a crown, dressed in all green suddenly appeared. The man said that since Mr. Peters saved the King of the forest, he should get some sort of a reward. Mr. Peters asked for three wishes, they were granted in the form of leaves. The man warned that most people end up worse than they started, from not being cautious with the wishes. Mr. Peters used his first wish to be granted a wife as beautiful as the forest, a swan named Leita transformed into a human and was Mr. Peters wife. Leita was a good wife to Mr. Peters, but she couln't handle being away from her sister and was starting to be sad, to end Leita's misery and reconnect her to her sister he used his second wish to turn her into a swan again. He was miserable because of losing his wife and missed her very much, he used his third wish to kill himslef and end his misery.