Magician's Gift - Appreciation

Get used to showing new and old movies, great music and songs on festivals and other important days.

So it's done in weeks and months leading to Christmas. The TV will be filled with wonderful movies with the theme of Christmas and "bell jingle, jingle bells", which will be sung numerous times.

This is one of the greatest short story novels of all time, one of the historical short stories with a Christmas theme.

The title of the short story is "The Gift of the Sorcerer", whose author is O. Henry, whose real name is William Sydney Porter.

First of all, what does Magi mean?

When Christ was born, he should be brought by the magician, a gift of myrrh and frankincense [by the way, the English word ' magic ' is derived from it] or three wise men or three The king is from the east.

The author gives his own explanation at the end of the short story. The author's tradition of this kind of commentary in the story is less and less used in modern stories. In fact, modern stories such as modern art and poetry are becoming more and more difficult to understand, which may be one of the reasons for the demise of short story types.

O. Henry wrote at the end of the story: "You know, magicians are smart people - very smart people - they bring gifts to the baby in the manger. Their gifts are undoubtedly wise, may have privileges. Repeat In the case of exchange, here I am lame to tell you the peace chronicle of two peaceful stupid children, who have the most unwise to sacrifice the most precious wealth of their family for each other. But for these people, this is It's wise. It can be said that all the gifts are the smartest. All the people who give and receive gifts, such as them are the most intelligent. Magician."

This story is about a poor couple, Della and Jim. End on Christmas Eve, because they don't have money, so give them something. How much do they have?

"One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That's all. Sixty cents is a penny. This kind of close-range trading implies a slap. Three times Della calculates it. One dollar is eighty-seven cents. The next day will be Christmas."

Of course, this is when things and services are cheap. They paid $8 a week for their furniture apartment, and Jim earned $20 a week, but he earned $30 a week before. Still only $1.87 is too little to buy any Christmas presents.

However, they are able to buy expensive, exactly the gifts that are most needed and needed by each other:

"Dell," he said. "Let's take the Christmas present and keep it for a while.

The end of the story is a "tail twist" surprise, which is the favorite trick of traditional writers, and modern writers disapprove. However, this bitter sweet ending makes this one of the greatest immortal short stories.

Of course, to know this amazing ending and to taste this great story, I did not disclose all the details, I would recommend that everyone must read, especially those young people. But who is not?

If a master of an important sound card named "James Dillingham Young" has unused mailboxes and non-functional electronic buttons in the vestibule, I will also ask for a thought, no money to spend on Christmas gifts. How hopeless the real poor people feel on Christmas Eve! If we consider them at Christmas, God will bless us.

Merry Christmas!
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