is therefore in need of medical help. The unnamed doctor‚ who is called in to Johnsys aid‚ is portrayed as a presumptuous and nonchalant man. He seems presumptuous by stating that he could increase Johnsys survival-prognosis if Sue got her “to ask one question about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves”; implying that by being a woman you automatically have an interest in fashion. The fact that he also declare that Johnsy should think about finding herself a man‚ simply underlines my point further:
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O. Henry’s short story “One Thousand Dollars” opens with a brief and polite conversation between a young man and a lawyer. The lawyer offers the young man one thousand dollars‚ his apparent inheritance from a recently deceased uncle. “Young Gillian‚” the young man in question‚ chuckles at the peculiar and specific amount of his inheritance. He marvels that‚ had his uncle bestowed a much larger or a much smaller amount of money upon him‚ he would better understand the bequest. As it stands‚ however
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Final- What I Would Do With a Million Dollars One million dollars has a lot of potential and would change one person’s or multiple peoples’ lives in a diverse amount of ways. Many people that do have that much money abuse it. I believe they spend their millions in wrong and irresponsible ways; many celebrities spend their riches on material items for themselves to make their own public image as a wealthy person by buying houses‚ cars‚ and designer items that the normal working class citizen could
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easy to change. However‚ people in general can change themselves and their lives. Nothing has to stay the same. The O. Henry Biography showed how people in general can change for the better. In the biography‚ it stated‚ “In 1896‚ he was falsely accused of embezzlement‚ taking money from the bank for personal use.” This shows how O. Henry’s life wasn’t really going his way. After O. Henry was mistakenly accused of embezzlement‚ he ran away to New Orleans and then went to Honduras to escape the police
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There is a reason why elders want to talk about their past. When older people tell their stories to the youth‚ they usually want them to learn something. Whether it is something that has happened to them‚ or someone they knew. “Tales from the Thousand and One Nights” provides us with many‚ sometimes fictional‚ Arabic stories‚ out of which we could learn something just as the stories of the elders. Listening to people’s stories‚ and their life lessons‚ and using it as our guide in the future‚ is like
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I have read an excerpt called A Thousand and One Arabian Nights‚ which is a Persian work written by multiple anonymous Arab storytellers. The excerpt recounts the story of a character named Sinbad’s first merchant voyage‚ out of the seven total voyages he took. The story was written in a time where trade was booming and merchants in Iraq were especially fortunate being able to trade from the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. The story starts out with Sinbad talking about how he began the voyage
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Red Grief People use literary devices in their speech every day. However‚ few people know what they’re called. In his short story “The Whirligig of Life” O Henry demonstrates five common examples of literary devices. The first example of figurative language is in the very beginning of the excerpt‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief”. O Henry ironically uses the simile “as flat as a flannel cake” to describe the town of Summit. The irony is that the flat town of Summit doesn’t contain a single summit. The
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The definition of love is " a deep‚ tender‚ ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person." In "The Gift of the Magi‚" the two main characters possess a love for each other that is so strong that they are willing to sacrifice their greatest treasures for each other‚ with no regrets. Also‚ they do not obsess over superficial things like appearances. Therefore‚ the moral of the story is that it is not the material things that matter‚ it is the love you have for another person‚ and the
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Two Thanksgiving Gentleman by O. Henry O. Henry is one of the most famous American short story writers. O. Henry’s real name was William Sydney Porter and he was born in Greensboro‚ North Carolina on September 11‚ 1862. O. Henry’s short stories are famous for their surprise endings and humor. O. Henry’s wrote such classic short stories as The Ransom of Red Chief‚ “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room”. His stories often have characters from opposite society levels: the wealthy and
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Jimmy Valentine‚ an awfully arrogant‚ but charismatic‚ criminal‚ was featured in O. Henry’s short story “A Retrieved Reformation”. During the late 1800s‚ Elmore‚ Arkansas became an area with many mysterious happenings. Following a brief‚ ten month period of imprisonment‚ the evasive fugitive‚ Jimmy Valentine‚ was released. Moments after his release‚ the anti-hero immediately returned home to attain a suitcase possessing his own novelties of safe-cracking tools. A week after receiving the pardon slip
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