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    Afterwards she faces a new worry. “‘If Jim doesn’t kill me,’ she said to herself, ‘before he takes a second look at me, he’ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do--oh! What could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?’” (O’Henry 3-4). Similarly to Madame Loisel, Della finds concern in how she looks to others and worries that her new look will affect the way in which Jim perceives her. However, Della’s actions were done out of love and generosity for her husband. …

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    more clear, the author can also use irony to think about what has been said. Irony is the most impactful element of these three stories; “The Necklace” by Guy Maupassant, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “The Gift of the Magi” by O’Henry. In “The Necklace,” Guy Maupassant…

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    Friendship is perhaps the most documented human bond in English literature and betrayal has for long been frowned upon and disapproved of, by the public at large. Yet there is an undeniable interdependence between the two; their existence seems to be somehow dependent on one other. When the distinction between friendship and betrayal starts to lessen, the scenario becomes much more complex. For instance, friendship punctuated with intermittent betrayals typically spell doom for any friendship.…

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    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 may be alike…

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    volunteer at my local SPCA. The weekend after my birthday I went to orientation and began doing what I loved most. Fast forwarding to my senior year in high school, last semester I had the privilege to intern at Kings Mountain Animal Clinic. This O’Henry Internship was an eighty hour program that I went to every day during one class block. Having this experience and behind the scene knowledge showed me that I do have what it takes to do this job. Now it is time for me to get an education on the…

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    Mrs. Welly: A Short Story

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    “Nuh-uh, Mrs. Welly, she’s lying. Don’t believe her, she’s always blaming me for things I didn’t do.” She crossed her arms and slumped into her chair. “She’s a B-word.” I gasped. I didn’t know what to say. I am not the B-word. She’s right, I’m not very nice to her, but only because my Unckie always said treat people the way you want to be treated and if she’s mean to everyone, she must want people to be mean to her! “I’m not a brat! You are, Ugly Emily!” “Girls! Knock it off, this instant or…

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    third person limited. We know because, it was based on Della's point of view for the whole day. And also the readers had no idea what Jim (which is known as her husband) was doing throughout the day because we only saw it in Della's point of view. O'Henry mabey did that on purpose because he was known for irony and wanted to keep the story going on suspense and to get the reader engaged to the story and read more till the…

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    Reality is something that constitutes of a real or actual thing, as distinguished from something that is merely apparent. Short stories have a fully developed theme that an author uses to portray his/her thoughts about anything they want. Flannery O’Connor has used her talented writing skills and put them to good use. She is known for writing horrific and shocking violent stories. She has written many short stories that have a unique aspect to every single one of them, but they all have…

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    From the beginning of short story, there have been many great writers whose work will go on for years to come. One of the great writers and most remembered was Richard Connell. Connell was a popular author and journalist whose short stories were regularly published in magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post” and “Collier’s weekly”. Connell’s writing was different from other authors and screenplay writers in his lifetimes, which allowed his work to stick out. Connell’s childhood, college…

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    Factors That Led to Post War Red Scare Tia Brown AMH 2020/2042 June 11, 2017 After World War II, an anti-communist movement emerged in the United States. This period, which was known as the Red Scare, emerged after the war in the mid-1940’s and lasted into the 1950’s. During the Red Scare, the fear of communism was prevalent both within the government and among private citizens. There were a variety of factors, both international and domestic, that led to the post war Red Scare, and…

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