Analysis the short story “ the Gift of Magic” by O.Henry O. Henry whose real name was William Sydney Porter was a famous American writer. He’s considered one of the great American short story authors. O. Henry’s stories are known for rich emotion ‚ their playful and optimistic sense of humor‚ and especially for their twist endings. One of O.Henry ‘s stories the most loved by Western reader is “ The gift of Magic “. It can also be considered as one of the Christmas
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The Gift of Magi by O. Henry‚ Analysis he Gift of Magi was written in 1906 by William Sidney Porter and American writer best now as O. Henry‚ as part of his second collection of short stories. Nowadays O. Henry is best known for his excessive sentimentalism‚ sadness‚ nostalgia and especially for twisted endings. The Gift of Magi is a story of a “Young” couple‚ not rich‚ in Christmas Eve‚ who want to surprise the loved one with the best gift possible for ea other but they are struggling with money
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A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SHORT STORY OF O. HENRY’S “THE GIFT OF THE MAGI” RESEARCH PAPER Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education in English Department by: MULYATI A 320 040 336 SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA 2008 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Story book is one of reading media which most people are interested in. They prefer to read story book other kind of book such
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Young love: love between young people. Although the definition is quite simple‚ young love is a rollercoaster of emotions and actions as the individuals develop independently and as a couple. The play Romeo and Juliet‚ by William Shakespeare is quite possibly the most iconic love story of all times. It is the tale of two young‚ star crossed lovers: Romeo of the Montague family‚ and Juliet of the Capulet family. Meeting at a masquerade‚ they fall for one another at first sight. Despite their families’
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A Special Gift A customer has planned to go to the gift shop named “Samanikalo” to buy a special gift for her daughter. The salesman and the sales girl is dealing with the customer to choose a better gift for her daughter. The conversation begins as follow: Sales Girl : Hi‚ madam. How can I help you? Customer : I want to purchase a gift for my daughter to give it on her birthday. Sales Girl : How old is she? Customer : She is just nine years old. It should be something special and unique
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The relationship between the audience and the protagonist differ in a tragedy and comedy because the audience has different feelings for each protagonist. Comedies are meant to make the audience feel happy overall‚ but there is little emotion the audience feels from the protagonist. For example‚ after a Greek trilogy was played‚ a comedy was played‚ so people wouldn’t feel so downhearted. Tragedies tend to emotionally move people because the audience can identify with and relate to the protagonist
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The Gift of the Magi In the short story “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry I feel that there is more than one theme that can be seen through the story‚ that of love‚ giving and sacrifice. The theme in a story is a representation of the idea behind the story. (Clugston‚ 2010) The main idea is that the best gift is that which is most sincere and comes from the bottom of the heart instead of an extravagant‚ lavish possession that would bring nothing to the warmth of the human relationship. The author
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The Knight and The Squire The Knight and the Squire share a father and son relationship. They are different individuals with different views and characteristics. As they go on this long pilgrimage together‚ the Squire is known for his youth‚ and the Knight was known for his masculinity. In the same way‚ they are both considered to be at an high level of society. The Knight has qualities of being truthful‚ generousness‚ courtesy and honorable. “To ride abroad had followed chivalry‚ truth‚ honor
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Huck and Jim’s relationship is present throughout the novel. It is first seen when Jim risks being seen as a runaway slave when he goes to Jackson Island searching for Huck. This tells us that Jim cares about Huck and is risking his own life for him. Huck promises to help Jim escape the south and become a free man. Even though Huck is raised with racist views on the black part of society he is still willing to help Jim head towards freedom. Their relationship is based on friendship‚ but as time passes
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relatioships between charcters in the stories we have studies one of them is Anil. in Anil the writer presents confilct in relationship between the father‚ Appa‚ and the son‚ Anil. Anil is very uncomfortable and scared with his father‚ we know this because in the story it says " his father was a burly man‚ a bully to his family" this explains that the relationship between the father and the son is unsual and unsafe. the word "Bully" is used to show negativity and the harmful relationship between Anil and
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