It could mean that he wants to prevent his son from seeing the monkey's paw.
What do the lines say? There is no image so I can't help
Its all about decisions made through fear or goodness , once humans develop imagined fear anxiety , goodness is reduced and decisions become subjective rather than objective.
Well, since jaunt and excursion mean relatively the same things, they are near synonyms, we are looking here for a word that has a relatively similar meaning to that of 'resignation'. Since you didn't give us any examples, I will just list you some of its synonyms: departure, retirement, termination, abdication, leaving, notice, abandonment, withdrawal, etc.
