Personal Reflection
In this English course I have learned many formal words that I didn´t know. How to make an essay , a formal letter and many other things, which I think will help in the future. Although there were some things that I dont know if that´s going to be helpful. This was the only class that i learned what to do in team work, and also I know which people I need to choose to be in my team, that experience really helped me because I know what to do and how to be very effective with a team. This is the last time i will have english classes and I think I´m prepared or at least this level will help in the future and that make me feel fine.
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Short Story Analysis
A Madison Square Arabian Night
Introduction
A Madison Square Arabian Night”
written by O. Henry is a short story of a man named Carson Chalmers that
receives a strange letter with a photo of woman, and in attempt to change his
routine he decided to invite a homeless man to dine with him. Plumer, the man
of the streets, used to be a famous painter of portraits with the ability to
show the menessess of the people shown up in his paintings, so that when he told
his story in the dinner, Chalmers decided that he wanted to portray the photo
of the woman to know the truth of her and then he discover love.
Thesis Statement
The story "A Madison Square
Arabian Night” by O. Henry shows that sometimes we can't recognized love even
when it is near to us like Chalmers that until the end he recognizes that the
woman of the photography is the one. This is reflected in the story through
allusion, character, plot and setting.
Allusion
In the "Madison Square Arabian Night",
the author refers to "The 1001 Arabian Nights: Feasting the Caliph"
"Good!" barked Plumer; "going to
be in courses, is it? All right, my jovial ruler of Bagdad. I'm your
Scheherezade all the way to the toothpicks. You're the first Caliph with a
genuine Oriental flavor I've struck since frost. What luck! And I was
forty-third in line. I finished counting, just as your welcome emissary arrived
to bid me to the feast. I had about as much chance of getting a bed to-night as
I have of being the next President. How will you have the sad story of my life,
Mr. Al Raschid--a chapter with each COURSE or the whole edition with the cigars
and coffee?"
Characters
The main characters are Chalmers and Plumer.
Chalmers is a solitary rich man that live in an apartment in New York,
while Plumer was a famous painter because of his ability to show the menessess
of people shown up in his paintings, then he lost his job and became a homeless
man.
However, when Chalmers meets Plumer, he started
to see things in a different way.
Plot
The plot is
logical because the story has a sequence (it is in chronological order). This
help the reader to understand better the story because if he/she doesn't
understand something they can continue reading and probably know what the
author is talking about.
Setting
The location plays an important role
to understand the author's intent, because it makes us understand the way the
principal characters live and help us to understand better the story.
Conclusion
" A Madison Square Arabian
Night" makes a reflection of how many times we are blinded and cannot find
what we need. O. Henry shows that people can help you find what you seek.
Chalmers was a very rich person but with money not with love, until Plumer help
him find the woman for him.
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