Develop the central idea of "Monkey's Paw"

Found this off of google, "When you mess with a snake it will bite you, which has bad results that can cause death because of the venom in a snake. Similarly, when you mess with fate your destiny is being changed and can have a deadly consequence."

do you have more to the question?

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.