The Last Leaf Essay

story writer back in the 18-1900’s. His stories were known for the surprise endings. Recently I was assigned an unusual but very interesting assignment in my English class: to take a look at 2 of his short stories ‘The Gift Of The Magi’, and ‘The Last Leaf’, and do a compare and contrast essay also using 3 literary devices. Professor taught us to be very careful with how you write this essay, so after spending hours reading the short stories over, I’ve come up with 3 literary devices that I can…

stories express the importance of experiencing hardship. For without hardship, there is no victory. Readers learn of this essential lesson through three short stories, “Gwilan’s Harp” by Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Washwoman” by Isaac Singer, and “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry. In these short stories, readers witness as Gwilan, the washerwoman, and Behrman surmount their individual battles. None of these characters obtain much in life. However, each of their stories illuminates how to live life well,…

Henry used deception with a plot that he called “turning the tables on Haroun Al-Raschid,” the caliph from mingle with the common people. His strategic writing techniques and ideas led him to the use of these themes in The Gift of the Magi, The Last Leaf",The…

friends,Todo the squirrel, Jullien the owl, Kim the koala, and the infamous bee named Pete. The four just graduated from redwood high school and were now ready to start their lives. Todo and Jullien planned on going to work with Jullien's dad at the leaf transportation company. Meanwhile Kim and Pete got accepted to Maple University starting in the fall. The four of them promised each other they would spend the whole summer making memories and would continue to keep in touch even after Pete and…

early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.’’” Some readers may brush it off thinking that it was an unimportant and random piece of the novel, but this is not true. The Outsiders and the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost are alike in many ways. One way that the book relates to the poem like this is with the line “Then leaf subsides to leaf.” This line means that leaves give way to…

The last leaf is a short story written by O.Henry in 1907 and it was translated in Hindi as Aakhiri Patta by children’s fiction writer Arvind Gupta.The story is about two young artists Joanna and Sue who live together in Greenwich Village, New York City. Joanna was down with Pneumonia and in those days there was no cure for pneumonia and so while lying on her bed she used to stare at a tree which lost most of its leaves and made her mind that the day the last leaf falls, she will die.Meanwhile,…

Leaf Day There are those teachers who just “get” you. There are more who don’t, but it’s the ones who do that can make all the difference (or so I used to think). My child-hating first-grade teacher Ms. Gordon didn’t “get” me. So when I forget all about Leaf Day it’s dreadful. And trying to finish the assignment by skipping class only increases my negligence. However, When Ms. Gordon shows a little leniency and decides not to fail me it has a lasting impact on me and significantly changes my…

were filled with 500 mL of vermiculite to maintain a representative humidity. Twelve leaves of randomly were placed flat in the tubs and treatment was induced on their underside of either zoospore or water, with an average of 10 drops being placed per leaf. Leaves labeled for zoospore inoculation were treated with 10 drops of zoospores (10ul) and those labeled for control were treated with 10 drops of sterile soil water (10uL) using proper pipette technique. Tubs were then sealed, stored and…

Plants are essential for life on earth; they are the backbone of all life. Plants are considered as autotrophic organisms, seeing as they are able to produce their own food. They are a crucial resource for many different uses, as plants are primary producers; everything we eat comes directly or indirectly from them (Schaffner, 2010). They provide a whole range of useful products, including food, fibres for cloth, and energy sources. Wood, coal and natural gas are all sourced from plants, these…

van den Berg 2009). Plants that follow this metabolic pathway are known as C3 plants (Khan academy [accessed 2017]). It is important to note that Rubisco prefers to fix carbon 12 over carbon 13; therefore 13CO2 is more likely to diffuse out of the leaf through the stoma before the Rubisco is able to fix it (Farquhar et al. 1989). Thus maple syrup has less carbon 13 because the Rubisco enzyme is able to be more…