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    The Last Leaf

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    The Last Leaf (by O. Henry) Analysis O. Henry is one of the most famous American short story writers. His real name was William Sydney Porter and he was born on September 11‚ 1862. In 1894 was accused of stealing money and went to prison. While in prison Porter first started to write short stories. After Porter was released‚ he changed his name to O. Henry and published his stories in magazines. O. Henry’s short stories are famous for their surprise endings and humor. O. Henry’s wrote such classic

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    The Last Leaf

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    The Last Leaf In his wonderful short-story The Last Leaf‚ O.Henry depicts a really admirable person - old Behrman. The story depicts the lives of artists in America at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. At that time arts people were massively settling in Greenwich Village attracted by eighteen century gables‚ Dutch attics and low rents‚ making this district an arts hub of this huge city. Two young artists Sue and Johnsy meet at a café. They become friends and find their tastes and opinions

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    Acknowledgements I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Mr. Qi Liang‚ my supervisor‚ not only for his illuminating instructions and invaluable suggestions to the completion of this paper‚ but more importantly‚ for his rigorous scholarship and professional conscientiousness. I am also indebted to all my teachers in USTS‚ whose wonderful lectures on different subjects pave me the way for the fundamental and essential academic competence. I owe my sincere gratitude to my classmates and friends

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    [pic] 1. Personal Interview My family and I 1. My name is _______________________________________________ 2. My last name is ___________________________________________ 3. I was named after my ______________________________________ 4. Professions- מקצועות ➢ My father is a sales agent / a contractor / an engineer / a physician / a clerk / a shop owner / / a lawyer / a chairman of a company/ a manager / an accountant / a steward / a pilot / a computer programmer / a

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    The Last Leaf Analysis

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    I picked my own story for The American writer O. Henry The Name of story is: The Last Leaf a brief summary of the story: The short story took place in New York City where two friends - Sue and Johnsy - live‚ work in art in a poor apartment‚ and publish their drawings in magazines‚ and thereby earning their living‚ and like any other artist‚ they hope to draw a masterpiece one day. One day‚ Johnsy fell prey to pneumonia. The doctor visited her and told her friend-Sue- that Johnsy could be cured

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    Compare and Contrast of Vicky and Rodger      This essay compares and contrasts two short stories of "The Quickening" by Lisa Interollo and "Thank You‚ Ma`m" by Langston Hughes. Vicky and Rodger is both teenager who are thieves‚ because it explores how both stories illustrate that Vicky and Rodger have a negative impacts by their family. They both have a caring person but Vicky is more likely to change for the better than Rodger is.       Firstly‚ in the stories of "The Quickening" Vicky and

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    O'Henry the Last Leaf

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    The stylistic analysis of “The Last Leaf” by O’Henry The text under stylistic analysis is the short story “The Last Leaf” by O’Henry. William Sydney Porter was born on 11-th of September in 1862 in North Carolina. His mother died when he was three year old. Porter worked at drug store of his uncle. Then he went to Texas and tried many professions. For example rancher‚ bank teller‚ journalist‚ founding a comic weekly magazine The Rolling Stone. Then was employed by the Houston Post to write a humorous

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    Loss In The Last Leaf

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    Loss becomes an event that each main character in “Gwilan’s Harp” by Ursula K. LeGuin‚ “The Washwoman” by Isaac Bashevik Singer‚ and “Last Leaf” by O. Henry has to experience and overcome. Each main character loses an object or person that has become close to them through different ways. Gwilan from “Gwilan’s Harp” loses both her harp and her passion‚ sadly ending her career as a harpist. Later‚ she also loses her husband‚ Torm‚ through illness‚ causing her to reach her lowest point. The washwoman

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    The Last Leaf (Analyis)

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    Last leaf is a short story that entails the treasury of life and the existence of faith and hope. It heeds to the importance of living and how we deal with the hindrances we battled through our life story. It is a moving story across the traps that come across us in the most significant part of our lives. The value of life is the centerpiece of the story where all things go back and revolve. A part of the story gives us a hint that God is the only one who knows whether we ride on with life and chances

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    The Last Leaf Review

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    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 fostered on mutual trust and their common tastes in art‚ chicory salad and bishop sleeves! All went hunky dory till Johnsy fell ill with pneumonia one cold November month. The disease seemed to drain out the last streaks of will and womanly taste from

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