In the short story‚ "The Gift of the Magi‚" written by O. Henry‚ Mr. and Mrs. James Dillingham Young are in for a big surprise. At Christmastime‚ they each make a sacrifice that is hard to bear‚ but the results show that it pays off. The hard trials they must endure make them realize that unconditional love is more important than material possessions. Since Jim and Della live in a dilapidated flat‚ they obviously don’t have a lot of money. In order to give a gift‚ each one sold his or her most prized
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In “The Gift of The Magi” by O. Henry there’s a lower class married couple who would do anything for each other. Then in “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant is a middle class married couple‚ they learn what it truly means to be poor lower classmen. In both of these stories there are both similarities and differences in their plots and between the characters. They both also have ironic endings. The plots of these two stories differ from each other‚ but are still both ironic. In “The Necklace” Mathildes
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“ This was love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness.”(DelaCruz) “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry is a short story about the selflessness of true love. Della and Jim are a poor couple on Christmas eve. Della cried about not being able to buy her beloved Jim a present with only‚ “One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all.” She longed to get Jim a good gift but little did she know that jim would come home with a beautiful present for her. This story is filled with symbolism and irony
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The Gift of the Magi shows many ironic aspects. How Della adores her hair‚ thinking so highly that no queen jewels could ever match the beauty of her hair. Or how Jim thinks his watch is so priceless that no king could ever have such a jewel‚ but when wanting to show their affection to one another they sell their priceless jewels just to find out that they each sold their priceless jewels to get something for one another. One a comb for the now missing hair‚ the other a golden chain for the now sold
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them happy to make their partners happy. This proves that money doesn’t buy happiness because by showing that the characters are willing to give up their happiness to make someone else happy. One example of money doesn’t buy happiness in “ The Gift of the Magi” is “ Take yer hat off let’s have a sight at the looks
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Selfless Love‚ the True Gift of the Magi Kim Frazier ENG 125 Ms. Marvel May 2‚ 2011 Selfless Love‚ the True Gift of the Magi O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” is a timeless story of selfless love. At the beginning of this tale the reader is introduced to Della Young a wife who has saved every penny she can to get her husband Jim a wonderful Christmas present. Though she has tried to come up with more money all she had is a dollar and eighty seven cents‚ and she does not feel that this
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The gift of magi is a love story of the well-known American writer- O.Henry in which the true love is challenged by the poverty. The love of Della and Jim is apparentlty revealed by the ways they think for each other‚ get ready to sacrifice the most valueable possessions for each other. Especially‚ the devotion of Della is the evidence of intense love she spends for her Jim. Della’s love demonstrates partially Shakespear’s point of view. No matter how poor the living condition is‚ it can not
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The short story The gift of the Magi‚ by O.Henry‚ is a story of poverty and depression and how a great love overcomes it. The conflict and the setting create the intense suspense in the story. The main conflict in the story is poverty. Della does not have enough money to buy her husband a Christmas present and Christmas was a day away. She was thinking of every possibility of how to get Jim a present. At last she decided to give up her most prized possession. In the book it says‚ “Now
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Christ‚ and the sacrifice that is put into place during a life or death situation. The first type of sacrifice is to surrender for the one’s you love. To sacrifice something for someone your love has to be strong. For example‚ in the story “The Gift of the Magi”‚ both the woman and the man give up something they had for one another. The woman sacrificed her hair to give buy her husband a watch chain‚ and the man gave up his watch to purchase the woman some combs. Even though this story ended ironically
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In the story of The Gift Of The Magi was this young lady named Della who had been working for months‚ and only made one dollar and eighty-seven cents. The next day was christmas and she didn’t have enough money to buy her significant other named jim a present. Della found the money to buy jim a present‚ but at the end of the day both of the gifts were worthless but meant a lot to each other. This story relates to The Neckless in a few ways. The Necklace is about a young lady named Mathilde who’s
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