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O.Henry’s Irony in Real Life

According to O. Henry, the twists that life takes teaches the readers

that everything will not go the way they wanted or they thought it would

be. Nothing is predictable in real life. All most all of O. Henry’s short

stories proves my statement.


“The Last Leaf” is a great story that written by O. Henry. This story

is about a young girl named Johnsy who catches pneumonia, and lost all

her hops to live. Johnsy and her friend Sue were roommates. They both

liked to paint. Sue and Johnsy had their studio. At the time when Johnsy

catches pneumonia Mr. Behrman the painter who lived in the ground floor

beneath them also had pneumonia. Mr. Behrman did not care about his

disease . Johnsy was always saying that she is going to die soon.



At the end of the story Johnsy survived from pneumonia and

Mr. Behrman died from pneumonia. At the end, Sue told Johnsy that,

“Look out the wi...

Posted by: Arianna Escobar

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