The words you are searching are inside this book. To get more targeted content, please make full-text search by clicking here.
Discover the best professional documents and content resources in AnyFlip Document Base.
Search
Published by g-24153688, 2021-03-23 21:55:42

LITERATURE FORM 2 ANIGHT OUT BY O HENRY

LITERATURE FORM 2 ANIGHT OUT BY O HENRY

Wednesday
24th March 2021

Prepared by:-
Teacher Nor Yusrina binti Ahmad @ Saifuddin

SMK Sungai Isap Kuantan

The Playwright O. HENRY

•• William Sydney Porter - born in 1862,
North Carolina, USA; died in 1910
• an American short story writer.
•• Started writing after getting married in
1887
•• Wrote more than 300 short stories
•• Most well known for the story Gift of the
Magi
•• His stories are typically about ordinary
people living in New York. Because of his
witty, humorous style, his stories are still
popular today.

TIME Setting SOCIAL

PLACE

Synopsis

• Towers Chandler is an ordinary man living in New York. He earns
very little but once every ten weeks, he dresses up and goes for
a meal at one of the best restaurants in the city. On one of his
nights out, a girl named Marian bumps into him on the street and
falls, hurting her foot. Chandler invites her to join him for dinner.
They talk and Chandler pretends to be a wealthy man who does
not need to work. Marian seems to lose interest in him. After
dinner, they go their separate ways. At home, Marian and her
sister talk about the kind of man they would like to marry. Marian
reveals that she cannot love a rich man who does not work.

Characters MINOR CHARACTERS

MAIN CHARACTERS

A young man who works JEFF WHITE Towers Chandler's
for a living, earning friend

eighteen dollars a week MRS BLACK Towers Chandler's
landlady
Towers
Chandler SISSIE Marian's sister

Young lady from a rich
family

Marion

Plot Climax

Marian returns home and gets a scolding from
her sister for disappearing for two hours. It is
revealed that Marian is from a rich family.

Rising Action PLOT Falling Action

A girl dressed in an old hat and cheap coat knocks Marian talks about her wish to
into Chandler and falls, hurting her foot. Chandler marry a man who has important
invites her to have dinner with him. The girl, work to do even if he were poor.
Marian, asks Chandler what he does. Chandler
pretends to be rich and tells her he does not work.
Marian loses interest in Chandler and they go their
separate ways. Chandler is disappointed and
regrets not telling Marian the truth.

Exposition Resolution

Towers Chandler is all dressed up like a rich Marian thinks Chandler is just
man for a night out. He meets his friend, Jeff another rich man and says that she
White, and tells him about his habit of saving cannot love a man like him even
one dollar a week so that he can enjoy the though he is attractive and kind.
lifestyle of the rich once every ten weeks.

Themes

Moral Values

The end


Click to View FlipBook Version