The story Cinderella

The Gift of the Magi

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Plan

• INTRODUCTION
• ANALYSIS:
• CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

• The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its twist ending are well known; the ending is generally considered an example of comic irony. The story was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern[2] on Irving Place in New York City.

ANALYSIS: Setting

• The story takes place in XXs century in a land ruled by a king and a queen.

Characters

Mr. James Dillingham Young, Mrs. James Dillingham Young, Mme. Sofronie
protagonist: Mr. James Dillingham Young, Mrs James Dillingham Young antagonist:
Della Dillingham Young- Della is Jim's young wife. She takes great pride in her beautiful, long hair.
James "Jim" Dillingham Young- Jim is the 22-year-old husband of Della. His one prized possession is his gold pocket watch that belonged to his grandfather and father.
Mme. Sofronie- Mme. Sofronie is the owner and proprietor of a hair goods shop. She pays Della 20 dollars for her hair.

Plot

• The plot of “the Gift of the Magi” is that a young woman (who is very good ) wants to meka her husband surprised by giving the Gift for Christmas. Her also does so. Della bought platinum fob for Jim’s watch by selling her hair whether Jim bought a comb for her wife instead of his watch. They tried to prove their love to each other through this.

Conflict

• internal ---…
• external— They love each other in heart

e) Climax

• e) Climax
• Jim arrives home, and is shocked to see Della's short hair. She tells him that she sold her hair in order to buy him a present, but he seems to have trouble accepting that her hair is gone. Jim pulls a package from his coat, and gives it to Della. She unwraps it, and sees two expensive hair combs that she had admired for a long time. She is delighted until she realizes that she cannot wear them in her short hair. She assures Jim that her hair will grow back quickly, and rushes to give him his gift. When he unwraps it and sees that it is a chain for his pocket watch, he sits down and smiles. Jim tells Della that he sold his watch to buy the combs.
• f) Resolution
• Jim tells Della that they should put their presents away and make dinner.

Lexical cohesion of the story

• Synonyms honor-pride, good-dandy, ornamentation-adornment, chest-bosom, wail-howl, beggar-mendicancy
• Antonyms wise-idiocy,income-expence
• Repetition comb, cheek

Grammatical cohesion of the story

• Reference
• “it was a platinum fob chain simple and cheste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation as all good things should. It was even worthy of the watch.As soon as she saw it she know that it must be Jim’s. It was like him. Quietness and value- the description applied to both. $21 they took from her for it and she hurried home with 87 cents. With that Chain on his watch he might be properly anxious about the time in any company
• 1.She and her refer to Della. He refers to Jim. They refers to both of them
• 2. It refers to Platinum fob.
• 3. Its refers to fob for the Jim’s watCh
• Conjunction: “ You have cut off your hair?” asked Jim , laboriously,as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labour (mannerative)

CONCLUSION Positive and negative sites of the story

• The characterization, theme, and irony in "The Gift of the Magi" make it a memorable and thought-provoking story. Jim and Della, the earnest, loving couple easily endear themselves to the reader. The universal themes of love, poverty, sacrifice, foolishness, and wisdom are dealt with handily even though the text itself is quite short. The final element that makes "The Gift of the Magi" memorable is O. Henry's adept use of irony, which provides two twists at the climax of the story
• But they lost their worry things………………………………………………………………………….

Thanks for attention.