大学英语精读1Unit8After Twenty Years PPT(最新)

In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money and sentenced to five years in prison. While in prison Porter started to write short stories to support his daughter Margaret. Porter was released on July 24, 1901, for good behavior after serving three years. Porter's most prolific writing period started in 1902, when he moved to New York City to be near his publishers. While there, he wrote 381 short stories. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. He married Sara Lindsay Coleman in 1907, but the marriage was not happy, and they separated a year later. O. Henry's last years were shadowed by alcoholism, ill health, and financial problems. He died of cirrhosis of the liver on June 5, 1910, in New York.
O. Henry’s Twisting End
The so-called O. Henry’s twist ending means: the end of the article makes sense not only unexpected but logical and convincing. As O. Henry believed that life is full of unexpected things, so most of the end of his novel come as a surprise. He attempts in this area successfully. So the literary world called such a method to be O. Henry’s twist ending. There are some classic works, "Gift of the Magi" "the last piece of ivy leaves“ “The cop and the anthem”.
Theme of the story
After Twenty Years’ by O. Henry, is a simple yet deep, meaningful short story. It’s theme talks about how the lawless world sometimes in many ways runs away from judgment. It definitely isn’t a short story about friendship. It is a story concerning the very big difference between good and evil, darkness and light, the loyalty to friend and the devotion to duty.
O. Henry is the pen name of William Sydney Porter. He is one of the three leading short story writers. Chekhov契诃夫(Anton Pavlovich， 1860-1904，俄国剧作家 、短篇 小说家) Maupassant莫泊桑 (Henri RenМ Albert Guy de，1850-1893，法 国短篇小说家)
1. unexpected, yet believable ending . Famous for his distinctive gift in making a surprising but logical, unexpected yet believable ending. 2. His peculiar humor: humorous yet tearful 3. O. Henry wrote with realistic detail based on his first hand experiences both in Texas and in New York City.
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Chekhov The Man in a Case
critical realism
In 1862 O. Henry was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1865, when he was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his grandmother and aunt. As a child, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels, his favorite work was One
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the Famous quotes by O. Henry
When one loves one's art no service seems too hard. Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles with sniffes predominating. Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.
Thousand and One Nights.
On July 1, 1887, Porter eloped with Athol and got married. Athol encouraged her husband to pursue his writing. Athol gave birth to a son in 1888, who died hours after birth, and then a daughter, Margaret Worth Porter, in September 1889. His wife died on July 25, 1897 from tuberculosis. In 1894 he started a humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist.
After Twenty Years
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O. Henry
•O. Henry (1862-1910) was a prolific American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. A twist of plot, which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance, is typical of O. Henretime, O. Henry published 10 collections and over 600 short stories.
words melting sorrows and joys
Starting from Washington Owen(1784-1859),many writers are good at writing those funny but meaningful story. O. Henry inherited this tradition, and was influenced by the contemporary writers. Moreover, he has a a lifetime of frustrations. All above makes his unique sense of humor - filled with bitter laughter. At the back of the humor, overstates, there are something more calling this "tearful smile", which has deepened the social significance of the work, with long-term artistic charm.