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    public class rgrss { void main() { System.out.println("Hello World"); } } "Even chances‚" said the doctor‚ taking Sue’s thin‚ shaking hand in his. "With good nursing you’ll win." And now I must see another case I have downstairs. Behrman‚ his name is - some kind of an artist‚ I believe. Pneumonia‚ too. He is an old‚ weak man‚ and the attack is acute. There is no hope for him; but he goes to the hospital to-day to be made more comfortable." The next day the doctor said to Sue:

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    soon be well. However‚ she is truly worried.  So‚ she begs Johnsy to close her eyes because she needs the light in order to continue her drawings. Johnsy agrees‚ but she tells Sue to hurry as she wants to go down like the last leaf. she goes to Mr. Behrman‚ informing him of the gravity of Johnsy’s condition‚ hoping there is something he can do. Sue takes him outside to look at the barren vine with one last leaf. So greatly concerned is Sue about her friend that she effects the change in Johnsy’s psyche

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    better; the reader wonders if she will survive. The most important aspect of this story is its theme. When Mr. Behrman‚ an old painter who watches out for the girls‚ hears of the severity of Johnsy’s condition‚ he decides to help. So Johnsy will be convinced to fight the pneumonia‚ he paints the exact image of the last leaf on the branch outside her window the day the last leaf fell. Mr. Behrman gives the story its theme: self-sacrifice and hope. He sacrifices his health for Johnsy’s‚ and he helps her

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    Johnsy. It’s not the brusque doctor who gives her only one in ten chances to survive‚ raising them to one in five if Sue can get her to hope for something important like a man‚ not her true desire to "paint the Bay of Naples some day" (14). Mr. Behrman‚ an old man who lives in the apartment below Sue and Johnsy‚ who enjoys drinking‚ works sometimes as an artist’s model‚ and as yet has made no progress over the past 40 years on painting his own masterpiece‚ becomes in typical O. Henry fashion the

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    O Henry always has me saying ‘O marvelous’! The gruesome plots‚ the careful work on the minutest of the minute details‚ the unpredictable surprise endings‚ the imaginative use of connotation and so much more. He dared to personify the dreadful Pneumonia as ‘the cold‚ unseen stranger’! THE LAST LEAF remains one of my favorite short stories written by him. The plot revolves around two artist girls – Sue and Johnsy - who have their own ‘studio’ in quaint old Greenwich Village. Their’s was a relationship

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    Frank Norris (1870-1902) by Janice Albert Norris’ novels include Blix (1899)‚ The Pit (1903)‚ The Octopus (1901)‚ and the memorable McTeague (1899). Of the writers who assembled in San Francisco’s Bohemian Club along with Joaquin Miller and Jack London‚ young Norris was one of the most energetic‚ filled with ideas. Like many of his contemporaries‚ he was profoundly influenced by the advent of Darwinism‚ and Thomas Henry Huxley’s philosophical defense of it. Norris was particularly influenced

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    get rid of with a flick of the magic wand. So many people refuse to see there loved one in an unkind light that they ignore the problem and stigmatize it. “When they find out you have it‚ suddenly you’re a carrier monkey ‚ and they might catch it.”(Behrman) When I asked my neighbor what he knew about the disease he said “Isn’t that the one where they see stuff and hear voices.”

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    creation of humans. It tears into the landscape and destroys any remnants of peace and tranquility that exist. This description of the railroad also reflects to an extent the indifferent and heartless nature of its human counterparts‚ such as S. Behrman and Shelgrim. Both of these men while different in demeanor possess the same inherent qualities that allowed for the behemoth of the railroad to come into existence. They treat the railroad solely as a “business proposition” which removes any ounce

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    “when the last one falls‚ I must go too”; she is talking about the ivy leaves outside of her window. All start to slowly fall off‚ but their kind neighbor‚ Behrman‚ paints a leaf so as to fool Johnsy‚ and it works‚ Johnsy decides to live; and she rejoices with Sue. The cost of Johnsy living came at a dreadful price though‚ while Sue lived‚ Behrman‚ who painted the masterpiece‚ died from a cold he caught painting that leaf. Throughout “Gwilan’s Harp” by Ursula K. LeGuin‚ “The Washwoman” by Isaac Singer

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    The Light of Humanity in the Poor Life Reading after the short stories by O. Henry As one of the most prominent short story giants in the history of literature‚ O. Henry’s works possess comprehensive readers. Recently‚ I have finished some of his short stories. I prefer to talk about some of his short stories which are well known. O. Henry’s ending is the symbol of his short story‚ which is famous for its unexpected but also in the way that was expected. Once the readers get into the ending‚ the

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