Conclusion
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Introduction of Gift of Magi
Gift of Magi tells a story of a woman who has long hair was holding a dollar and eighty seven cents on Christmas Eve would like to buy a Christmas gift for her husband, Jim.She saved up this money for several months,inordered to buy a gift valuable but worthy of Jim .Howerer the money was not enough.Her beautiful hair looks like one brown a small waterfall.Then she went to the barber shop,said: "I sell hair. "Her hair only sold twenty dollars.She took the money and ran quickly. In the gift shop, she got a gold watch chain,then went back home.At the same time, Jim sold his gold watch to buy a set of silver comb to Dela. Poverty couples give up their most precious things to each other to buy the most precious gift.
How surprising
Dela sents hair to buy chain Jim give gift to wife Why comb Why remember the comb Sold the gold watch
Out of love
Show love Understand
Why reasonable
Analysis on the Surprising Ending but Reasonable of O·Henry’s Short
Stories ——Take Gift of Magi and The Cop and the Anthem for Example
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Introduction of The Cop and the Anthem
The Cop and the Anthem tells the story of a man who was fall in cold and hunger, want to go to prison for the winter, and prison can supply food to eat and place to sleep. So he began to defy the law :eat but not give money;disturb social rules;take liberties with women in front of the police;break windows and stealing ... and ended in failure. Soapy was standing front of the church, he lost himself in the anthem,he was moved by that,he changed his willing, he want go to the center of the city to find a job. He felt that the world is extremely warm, he is going to a good man.At that time the police sent him to prison where he want .
" .Because of the strange ending,it bring
us a lot of fun,so his work known as
"The humor Encyclopedia of American
life".
An Surprising Ending but Reasonable in Gift of Mag
About readers feel suddenly see the light, out of
the
expectation but reasonable.This profound
Author reflects in O·Henry's works— "Gift of
Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem
• O·Henry was called "The father of
the modern short story in the United
States". He is famous for designing
dramatic plot,and finally at the end he
also give us a surprise ending,so that
1、Introduction
Outline
2、About the writer
3、Review
An Surprising Ending but Reasonable in Gift of Magi
Analysis the Ending Characteristics of The Cop and the Anthem
Care and love
Love
They poor,but they love each other,so they love life