“The Gift of the Magi” September 29‚ 2008 Prompt: O. Henry makes a statement about gift giving in his short story “The Gift of the Magi.” State what he says about gift giving and [discuss two ways he uses the story to make his statement.] In “The Gift of the Magi” O. Henry makes the statement that the wisest gift are those from the heart. He makes this point by [creating admirable characters] and by [using an allusion to the Magi.] [O. Henry’s statement that the wisest gift are
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The main character in The Necklace’s‚ and the main character in The Gift of the Magi’s‚ personalities differ from one another vastly. In The Necklace‚ the main character Mathilde Loisel is an ungrateful middle class woman who seeks riches and admiration. Alternatively‚ the main character in The Gift of the Magi‚ Della Young‚ is compassionate and works very hard to buy her husband a present‚ and ultimately‚ selling the one thing that was more precious to her than anything else‚ her hair. Mathilde
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The Gift of the Magi by William Sydney Porter Xinyan Zhu September 2‚ 2012 Comp1102 /Fall Mrs. Chambers The Gift of the Magi by William Sidney Porter William Sidney Porter‚ better known under his pen name “O. Henry”‚ born September 11 1862 in Greensboro North Carolina. Accused of embezzling bank fund‚ Henry was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison. During this dark period in his life‚ he begin his literary career with his stories that were to be collected in his first book
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The two stories‚ “The gift of the Magi” by O Henry and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant shared similar themes and ironies. In the story “The gift of the Magi” both of the characters‚ Della and James‚ sacrifice the most important things they had (Della’s hair and James’s watch) to give the other happiness to find out the gifts were useless in the end while in “The Necklace”‚ Madame Loisel sacrifices both her own and her husband’s youth to pay for her friend’s necklace that she lost just to find
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“The Necklace” & “The Gift of the Magi” Share Common Theme Wanting more and better is one of the quality that we all have. In the stories “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi”‚ both writers illustrate the consequences of greed. One would wonder if people do fine much happiness through their search for material? Perhaps greed does make one’s happy at times‚ but because of greed people bury themselves in the bottomless pit of pain and suffering. A dust material such
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Both “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi” have plots that depend in large measure on the use of situational irony to create a surprise ending. “The Necklace” tells the story of Madame Mathilde Loise‚ a lowly clerk’s wife‚ who‚ in an effort to appear more debonaire than she is‚ borrows expensive jewels from Madame Jeanne Forestier‚ a wealthy friend. After the inevitable loss of the jewels‚ Madame Loisel and her husband secretly replace the jewels. Years later‚ Madame Loise‚ now impoverished
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the story is mind blowing‚ horrific and earth shattering. When the prince charming swoops in with his "Shakespeare" and "Hamlet" and realizes‚ the princess has already been carried off into the arms of an Ogre. Upon crossing her path the princess falls sincerely in love with prince charming and desires nothing more than to devote eternity to gazing into his eyes‚
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Short Stories Provides Valuable Moral Lessons to Readers Through the actions demonstrated by fictional characters‚ short stories provide readers with vital lessons. It is demonstrated in The Stolen Party‚ The Necklace and The Gift of Magi‚ and it examines the significance of obedience‚ appreciation and the affection of selfless actions. First in foremost‚ from Rosaura’s consequence of disobedience‚ it presents the message of obeying your parents. For instance‚ it is revealed as Hermina refused her
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the meaning of this quote. There are numerous stories or texts that approve and disapprove of our phrase. "The Gift of the Magi‚" written by O Henry‚ gives confident approval that our equation applies in multiple ways to the text. It can give definitions and reasons for our quote to better explain different interpretations. Some particular interpretations of our fragment could be‚ " You are most yourself when no one is watching." Other readers came up with‚ "your true nature is on
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Writer’s Choice Name: Course: Institution: Question One: Identify the character/story and the nature of the ironic or difficult situation – What happened? Why was it surprising? Per the story of “Romeo and Juliet” Everyone expect that Romeo and Juliet will surplus all odd‚ get married and live happily ever after but this changes when Juliet after learning that her father wants her to get married to Paris she takes sleeping portion to pretend that she is dead then Romeo arrives and on seeing Juliet
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