O-Henry is an American writer, real name was William Sydney Porter. The O-Henry is known for drollness, Pun, warm character, and ends with the twisted intelligence. "The Gift of the Magi" is one of the interesting stories that I've read. So, in this article I will explain some of the elements in this story and these elements are the characters and the background.The character's personality and attitude with regard to a person in the story. The characters are divided into two categories in the role and personality. Because the role is split into two primary and secondary characters. Meanwhile from personality, there are flat, circular, static, dynamic, securities, anti hero, hero, and his implied.There are primary and secondary characters in the story based on their role. Della and Jim is the main character. Besides that, there really is a minor character. She is Ms. Sofronie was the woman bought the hair of Della with $ 20.The following explanation is based the character's personality. Only three types of characters, which is flat, static, dynamic, and the antique character. Della is the dynamic character of the stories since her physical appearance has changed in the end of the story. Initially, it was described that she has a long hair brown. However, she cut her hair to buy a gift for my husband. Besides, Della is a flat character tells his way to interact with the other characters throughout the series tend to look the same from the beginning to the end.Della's heroine love, warmth, selfless, and sometimes the hysteria of the story. Of Della poor financially. She spent her days in a cramped apartment, as her "home". In other words, she was a homemaker. Della live basically for one person: Jim, her husband. She spent a lot of time leading up to Christmas are just thinking of what to get him a nice gift. She's been saving up for months just to round money for a Christmas gift. She even had to endure the humiliation of grabbing my coins at stores.Della is willing to go to any lengths to achieve this goal, and ended up selling a prized possession of himself-his hair-to do it. Although she sheds a tear or two for the hair, it does not seem to affect her much. She didn't even think it was multiple choice. She has received gift Jim:.? "I went to cut hair and sold it because I couldn't live through Christmas without presents to you It will grow back out-you won't mind, will have the lads had to do it," in fact, that seems to bother Della for about losing his hair is Jim likes it very much. She almost doesn't seem to mind at all. That is dedication.But you can still find more than one complaint to make about Della. She does not seem emotional reality. The first thing we see her do is collapse in a sobbing on the couch. And once you get a present for Jim, she shouted in tears only to drugs almost immediately afterwardsNext, Jim can be seen as a flat character and static. Jim the way of talking to remain so since he only appears almost at the end of the story. He is a static character because her appearance did not change at all.Jim's job is not so great. He's the only family pillar for family Dillingham Young (that is, he and Della), and it looks like he works long hours, but his salary is low. And it recently went from bad to worse: while he used to make $ 30 a week, he now fell to 20 USD. He and Della are struggling just to pay the costs of his small apartment. So, if Jim happened seems a little tired, serious, overwork, and perhaps a bit underweight, there's a good reason for it."He looks skinny and very serious. That poor guy, only twenty years old-and the burden of family! You need a new jacket and a pair of gloves. "One of the things that keeps Jim would be her love for Della. She is Della herself. We don't get half as much exposure to their feelings as we do for Della, but all the evidence so that he was just as devoted to her as she is to him. Just like Della, Jim put his most precious possession to find a perfect gift for those you love. And it's not just because of his appearance, although she worries about them:"Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "for me. I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or scraped clean or a shampoo can make me love you less. "The final category is the ancient character, Mrs. Sofronie considered stock characters since she tends to be the only character additions.She is the owner of Sofronie a hair shop, which, we are told, is selling "every hair of all kinds". She is "large", "white" and "cold" in her manner is direct and to-the-point: she didn't give any sign of being impressed by the gorgeous hair Della, and casually offered to buy it for $ 20.Sofronie's attitude creates a sharp contrast of Della and Jim. For both men, the hair of Della is a precious possession-she only prized possession-and its sale of up to Della a huge sacrifice. No matter to Ms. Sofronie, for whom it was just a business transaction, that will probably get a little more profit. You could say she represents "the cold, emotionless world" that exists outside the paradise of love Della and Jim have built for themselves. She also expresses a very different way of valuing things – purely for the money they get.The definition of a set in a story where the story takes place and when the story happened. Each story has a set. Moreover, the set it is not just about anywhere. The year, month, day, in the morning, or even the story shows a time like this is 00.00 includes setting and the name of the person who has time to set.In "The Gift of The Magi", the story takes place at the Della and Jim's House, Her store Sofronie, and shops where there are existing sequence for Della. It took place at the Della and Jim's House when his money to count Del buy one perfect gift for Jim, and when Della and Jim finally gets to meet and talk about their gifts in the end of the story. Next, it took place at the shop She Sofronie when Della finally decided to cut his hair and sold it to Mrs. Sofronie with $ 20. Finally, there's a shop when Della finally found Platinum chain fob was the right one for Jim. Moreover, the drabness of the physical settings in which Jim and Della life creating a contrast with the warmth and richness of their love for each other. The fact that everything outside the apartment as "gray"-Della clock a "grey cats take on the gray in a grey backyard"-develop contrast more. Inside, we have a sense, Jim and Della's feelings created a love nest warmly, despite the modest nature of the apartment. Outside, it's a cold, gray world and one that is void of interest as Mrs Sofronie.The story's time setting is considered in a Christmas night since it was explained that Della was confused about what you are going to buy Christmas presents Jim the next day. Specifically, it is in the afternoon when Della are counting the money, go to the store, and buy Her fiber Sofronie strap for Jim's clock. In the end, it appears to be in the evening when Della and Jim finally met and talked about their gifts.The Narrator calls our attention almost immediately for the two most important details of the setting of the story: it takes place on one Christmas Eve, and the two main characters live in an apartment so unassuming. The action of the story depends on the fact that Christmas is close enough that Della should buy a gift now, even her small amounts of money. Very humble home of the couple brings out their poverty a vivid way. It is the poor that both forced them to make the sacrifices they made, and make the sacrifices that make sense. O. Henry flat sketch with just enough detail to convey an image of the squalor of it: it's cheap, sketchy stuff, and there's a broken mailbox and a broken doorbell.For the most part over "where and when, maybe the story is set in a city –" apartment "is the kind of thing you usually associate with the city From." Gas "that Della lamp and utility she has, such as a stove and curling irons, it is a safe bet that the story was set up just about the time the o. Henry wrote it (the first decade of the 20th century), or slightly earlier.The story opens with $ 1.87. The short of
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