Gift Of The Magi Essay

Soto all deliver a message about love in their stories. Willa Cather's story, "On the Gull's Road," tells us that a person can fall in love with anyone. There is no sort of barrier for a person to fall in love with anyone. O. Henry's story, "The Gift of the Magi," tells us that love does exist after marriage and love will always stay in the end. Gary Soto's story, "Broken Chains," tells us that no matter how much a person will fight with their sibling, they will always love them. The story,…

literature, an author uses an object that can be a symbol that conveys an important meaning. In “Lather or Nothing Else” and “The Gift of the Magi,” Tellez and O’Henry use symbols to express a deeper significance. Using the fob and combs that Della and Jim both give each other for Christmas, O’Henry demonstrates that love is truly what gift giving is about in “The Gift of the Magi.” The very sharp razor that the barber possesses in “Lather or Nothing Else” represents the choice the barber has…

writes these kinds of stories, like on the sory gift of the magi, the way he wrote this story is with love and sarcasm. He made that story his with the way he wrote it, the things that author uses. For example in the story after twenty years by O. Henry, he uses a style of suspense because at the end on after 20 year it ends with him getting caught and you didn't know what was going to happen next until you read. Going back to the gift of the magi, the author makes the story his by using many…

can make a huge impact on loved ones if we’re not careful because people are avidly determined in their dream that they are willing to do anything. It can lead us to sacrifice the things we love in order to pursue that dream. Della and Jim in The Gift of Magi written by O. Henry and Mathilde Loisel in The Necklace written by Guy de Maupassant set the idea of how many relationships can contain and love. Also, can show the amount of pride these characters have by the sacrifices they make due to…

In life, many different choices have to be made. A person walks down the road of life and must choose the direction they want to follow. In Of Mice and Men, George has to decide to shoot Lennie. The story Magi focuses on the choice of sacrifices. The elements of conflict and theme portrayed in these works can be adapted to real life situations. Throughout the story Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck foreshadows the dangers Lennie encounters. George is faced with a difficult internal conflict. He has to…

not being responsible with other people's belongings, and getting killed by insulting someone, are ironies throughout theses three stories. Dramatic, verbal, and situational irony are three types of irony throughout theses three stories, “The Gift of the Magi,” “The Necklace,” and “The Cask of Amontillado”. When the audience is aware of something that the character isn’t aware of, is called dramatic irony. Not only is there dramatic irony, but also situational irony as well, situational is…

The term infancy narrative is used described the birth and early life of Jesus the Messiah. The infancy narrative in Matthew’s Gospel is broken into many parts; including: the genealogy of Jesus, the conception and birth of Jesus, the visit of the Magi, the flight to Egypt and massacre of the infants, and the return from Egypt. I will be discussing all of these events in greater detail, as well as an excerpt from my uncle, also known as Deacon Francis of St. Mary Magdalene in Abbeville, LA.…

with different situations? “The Necklace,” by Guy De Maupassant, a story about how a selfish woman lead her and her to the life of poverty all because she wanted to look nice with a necklace. Meanwhile, Della Young, a character in the “The Gif of the Magi,” by O’Henry, in love with her husband decides to sell her hair to get her husband a fob chain for his watch as a Christmas present, which ends up being useless as he had already sold his watch to get her combs for her hair. These two ladies…

The Sacrifices for Love I. Introduction. Introduce thesis: “The Gift of the Magi”, a short story written by O. Henry in which love is more important than any material item and the value of a gift lies in the sacrifice behind it, rather than its material value. Thesis: Love prevails over material value since the main characters show the love for each other by giving up their most valued material possessions to buy Christmas presents for each other. II. Plot. A. Della and Jim are a married…

In the television special, “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas,” it uses irony to convey its theme. The plot somewhat resembles that of the short story, “The Gift of the Magi,” by O. Henry. This is because both apply irony to express a theme. In “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas,” Emmet and his mother Alice live on the side of the river and are very poor. Christmas is approaching and they have no money to buy the other a present. They both stumble upon the talent show taking place in town. The…