Masdiqkzone - Book Report of Short
Story Entitled “The Last Leaf”
Short story written by O. Henry
This report is based upon the short
story “The Last Leaf” written by O. Henry. This short story was published in
his collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories and was copyrighted 1907 by
O. Henry.
Introduction of the
Author
O. Henry
(pseudonym for William Sydney Porter) was born on September 11, 1862 in
Greensboro, North Carolina; and he became famous for his short stories, which
have been collected into a number of books. The first collection of his stories
appeared in 1904 in "Cabbages and Kings," which was immediately
popular. Other collections followed, including: "The Four Million"
(1906), "The Trimmed Lamp" (1907), "The Heart of the West"
(1907), "Whirligigs" (1910), "Sixes And Sevens" (1911),
"Rolling Stones" (1912), and "Waifs And Strays" (1917).
Introduction
of the story
This story took
place in the studio apartment of two young female painters who live together in
Greenwich Village, in New York City. The place is very famous because of many
artists lived there and also the low rent on the apartments and nice
atmosphere.
The main
characters of the story are Sue and Johnsy. They are an artist and be a friends
for long time. Both of them are very interested about art. Sue is from the
State of Maine. She draws pictures for stories in magazines. Her characteristic
is very friendly and charitable. Then, Johnsy is from California. She has a
dream that she looks forward to go to Italy and painting a picture of the Bay
of Naples. In the first time Johnsy is very pessimistic person. However, she
changes to be optimistic person after getting a motivation from Sue.
Summary
In
December, it was very cold in New York. Snow fell and there was ice in the
ground. Many people in the city became ill. The illness was called pneumonia.
One of them was Johnsy, she had pneumonia. A doctor had already tried to cure
her illness but he could not do anything and Johnsy was not getting better. One
day, Sue looked in on Johnsy condition by visiting her room. Suddenly Sue heard
quiet sound from Johnsy’s bed direction. She found Johnsy was counting vine
leaves outside the window. Johnsy said that the last falling leaf will become
the end of her life. Looking at that condition Sue as her best friend gave
motivation directly. Sue said that Johnsy had to be strong and optimistic in
order to make the illness disappeared. However, Johnsy still grumbled about that.
Finally, Sue asked her to close her eyes and go to bed.
In
the apartment also lived a old people named Behrman. He lived in the
downstairs. He was also an artist who wanted to paint a masterpiece. Sue told
everything about Johnsy condition and the vine leaves to him. After hearing her
story he was angry but he loved the two young artists very much. In the
morning, Johnsy found the last leaf was still there all day long. She became
aware and the case had taught the lesson to her. Sue told her about Mr.
Behrman, he had pneumonia too and he died this morning. Someday, it was found
that the last leaf in the vine is Mr. Behrman’s masterpiece. He painted it on
the night of the strom.
Conclusion
This story is full
of friendship values. The author wrote the story in order to show to the reader
how life should be did. Then, the author also tried to achieve the attention of
the reader in the story. I think he was getting on achieving the point. The author
also used easy writing style in the story so that it makes the reader
understand the whole meaning of the story easily and clearly. Overall this
story is really recommended for you who want to increase optimistic sense.
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