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1、WritingRead the O.Henry story“A Retrieved Reformation.”Write an essay comparing that story to“The Gift of the Magi,”with a focus on how O.Henry crafts each ending.Social StudiesResearch the historical events that occurred in the United States during the early 1900s,the time period in which O.Henry l
2、ived.Discuss with a partner how this context shapes the setting of the story.ConnectionsVisit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.The Gift of the MagiA Reading AZ Level Z Leveled BookWord Count:2,070www.readinga-LEVELED BOOK ZAdapted from the Writings of O.HenryIllustrated by Alessand
3、ra FusiThe Gift of the Magiwww.readinga-O.Henry(William Sydney Porter)was an American short story writer.After working as a pharmacist,drafter,journalist,and banker,he became a writer and wrote many collections of short stories that would become world-famous.O.Henry is well known for his witty dialo
4、gue and surprise endings that usually involve a creative or unusual solution.How is irony developed in this story?Focus QuestionAdapted from the Writings of O.HenryIllustrated by Alessandra FusiThe Gift of the Magi O.Henry(18621910)Photo Credits:Title page:Culture Club/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesThe
5、 Gift of the MagiLevel Z Leveled Book Learning AZAdapted from the Writings of O.HenryIllustrated by Alessandra FusiAll rights reserved.www.readinga-adornedcascadecoveteddiscreetfobmagipier glasspossessionsprosperity sacrificedtressesyearnedWords to KnowCorrelationLEVEL ZUVN/A50Fountas&PinnellReading
6、 RecoveryDRA3ne dollar and eighty-seven cents.That was all.And sixty cents of it was in pennies.Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until ones cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.Three ti
7、mes Della counted it.One dollar and eighty-seven cents.And the next day would be Christmas.The Gift of the Magi Level Z4There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.So Della did it.Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs,sniffles,and sm
8、iles,with sniffles predominating.While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second,take a look at the home.A furnished flat at$8 per week.It did not exactly beggar description,but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.In the vestibu
9、le below was a letter-box into which no letter would go,and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name“Mr.James Dillingham Young.”The“Dillingham”had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its po
10、ssessor was being paid$30 per week.Now,when the income was shrunk to$20,though,they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming“D.”But whenever Mr.James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called“Jim”and greatly hugged by Mrs.James Dillingham Young,alre
11、ady introduced to you as Della.Which is all very good.5Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag.She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.Tomorrow would be Christmas Day,and she had only$1.87 with which to buy Jim
12、a present.She had been saving every penny she could for months,with this result.Twenty dollars a week doesnt go far.Expenses had been greater than she had calculated.They always are.Only$1.87 to buy a present for Jim.Her Jim.Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him.Somethi
13、ng fine and rare and sterlingsomething just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being with Jim.There was a pier glass between the windows of the room.Perhaps you have seen a pier glass in an$8 flat.A very thin and very agile person may,by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of
14、 longitudinal strips,obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.Della,being slender,had mastered the art.Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass.Her eyes were shining brilliantly,but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds.Rapidly she pulled down her hair and
15、let it fall to its full length.The Gift of the Magi Level Z6Now,there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride.One was Jims gold watch that had been his fathers and his grandfathers.The other was Dellas hair.Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat a
16、cross the airshaft,Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majestys jewels and gifts.Had King Solomon been the janitor,with all his treasures piled up in the basement,Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed,just to see him pluck at hi
17、s beard from envy.7So now Dellas beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters.It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her.And then she did it up again nervously and quickly.Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two
18、splashed on the worn red carpet.On went her old brown jacket;on went her old brown hat.With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes,she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.Where she stopped the sign read:“Mme.Sofronie.Hair Goods of All Kinds.”One fligh
19、t up Della ran,and collected herself,panting.Madame,large,too white,chilly,hardly looked the“Sofronie.”“Will you buy my hair?”asked Della.“I buy hair,”said Madame.“Take yer hat off and lets have a sight at the looks of it.”Down rippled the brown cascade.“Twenty dollars,”said Madame,lifting the mass
20、with a practised hand.“Give it to me quick,”said Della.The Gift of the Magi Level Z8Oh,and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings.Forget the hashed metaphor.She was ransacking the stores for Jims present.She found it at last.It surely had been made for Jim and no one else.There was no other lik
21、e it in any of the stores,and she had turned all of them inside out.It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design,properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentationas all good things should do.It was even worthy of The Watch.As soon as she saw it she kn
22、ew that it must be Jims.It was like him.Quietness and valuethe description applied to both.Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it,and she hurried home with the 87 cents.With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company.Grand as the watch was,he sometimes
23、looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason.She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love.Whi
24、ch is always a tremendous task,dear friendsa mammoth task.9Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny,close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy.She looked at her reflection in the mirror long,carefully,and critically.“If Jim doesnt kill me,”she said to herself
25、,“before he takes a second look at me,hell say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl.But what could I dooh!what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?”The Gift of the Magi Level Z10At 7 oclock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the ch
26、ops.Jim was never late.Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always entered.Then she heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight,and she turned white for just a moment.She had a habit of saying a little silent prayer about the
27、simplest everyday things,and now she whispered:“Please God,make him think I am still pretty.”The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it.He looked thin and very serious.Poor fellow,he was only twenty-twoand to be burdened with a family!He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves.Jim stop
28、ped inside the door,as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail.His eyes were fixed upon Della,and there was an expression in them that she could not read,and it terrified her.It was not anger,nor surprise,nor disapproval,nor horror,nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for.He simp
29、ly stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.Della wriggled off the table and went for him.11“Jim,darling,”she cried,“dont look at me that way.I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldnt have lived through Christmas without giving you a present.Itll grow out againyou wont
30、mind,will you?I just had to do it.My hair grows awfully fast.Say Merry Christmas!Jim,and lets be happy.You dont know what a nicewhat a beautiful,nice gift Ive got for you.”“Youve cut off your hair?”asked Jim,laboriously,as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental l
31、abor.“Cut it off and sold it,”said Della.“Dont you like me just as well,anyhow?Im me without my hair,aint I?”Jim looked about the room curiously.“You say your hair is gone?”he said,with an air almost of idiocy.“You neednt look for it,”said Della.“Its sold,I tell yousold and gone,too.Its Christmas Ev
32、e,boy.Be good to me,for it went for you.Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered,”she went on with sudden serious sweetness,“but nobody could ever count my love for you.Shall I put the chops on,Jim?”The Gift of the Magi Level Z12Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake.He enfolded his Della.For
33、ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction.Eight dollars a week or a million a yearwhat is the difference?A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer.The magi brought valuable gifts,but that was not among them.This dark assertion
34、will be illuminated later on.13Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.“Dont make any mistake,Dell,”he said,“about me.I dont think theres anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less.But if youll unwrap that package
35、 you may see why you had me going a while at first.”White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper.And then an ecstatic scream of joy;and then,alas!a quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails,necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat
36、.For there lay The Combsthe set of combs,side and back,that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window.Beautiful combs,pure tortoise shell,with jewelled rimsjust the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair.They were expensive combs,she knew,and her heart had simply craved and yearned over t
37、hem without the least hope of possession.And now,they were hers,but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.The Gift of the Magi Level Z14But she hugged them to her bosom,and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say:“My hair grows so fast,Jim!
38、”And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried,“Oh,oh!”Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present.She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm.The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.“Isnt it a dandy,Jim?I hunted all over town to f
39、ind it.Youll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now.Give me your watch.I want to see how it looks on it.”Instead of obeying,Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled.“Dell,”said he,“lets put our Christmas presents away and keep em a while.Theyr
40、e too nice to use just at present.I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs.And now suppose you put the chops on.”15The magi,as you know,were wise menwonderfully wise menwho brought gifts to the Babe in the manger.They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.Being wise,their gifts we
41、re no doubt wise ones,possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication.And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.But in a last word to the wise of
42、 these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest.Of all who give and receive gifts,such as they are wisest.Everywhere they are wisest.They are the magi.The Gift of the Magi Level Z16Glossaryadorned (v.)added beauty to something;decorated(p.13)cascade(n.)a small waterfa
43、ll,often one of a series that fall over a rocky slope;something that falls or rushes down in a large quantity(p.7)coveted(adj.)strongly desired(p.13)discreet(adj.)not noticeable or obvious;showing self-restraint or careful judgment in speech or behavior(p.12)fob(n.)a short chain or strap for a pocke
44、t watch(p.8)magi(n.)the three wise men in the Bible who traveled from the East to give gifts to Jesus after his birth(p.12)pier glass(n.)a high mirror that is made to hang between windows(p.5)possessions (n.)things that are owned or controlled by someone(p.6)prosperity (n.)success,wealth,or good fortune(p.4)sacrificed(v.)gave something up for the sake of something else(p.15)tresses(n.)locks of a womans hair(p.13)yearned(v.)wanted or longed for something very much(p.13)