The+Gift+Of+The+Magi

__﻿The Gift Of The ____ Magi __
=== ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ The Gift of the Magi is a short story about when you lose evertything that is valuable to you all you have left is each other,and if you love each other everything is ok. ===

The Gift of the Magi was written between 1903-1910 by O. Henry.
===O.Henry was sent to prison on an account of being accused of stealing bank funds. It was during his time in prison that he wrote most of his short stories. He changed his name to O.Henry when he got out of prison so that he could publish his short stories in magazines. === __ Summary __ === ﻿ ﻿It was the night before Christmas. Della Young paced her home frustrated that she had only saved up $1.87. Della wanted to buy a gift for her husband Jim Dellingham Young. Since Jim's salary had been cut at work the Young couple didn't make as much money. Della had tried to save every penny for this day. There were only two things that the Young's valued most Della's hair and Jim's great grerat grandfather's gold watch. Della was staring at her reflection when the lightbulb falshed above her head. Her hair one of the things they valuedf most should be worth a lot. Della went to Madame Sofronie and asked her to but her hair. Madame Sofronie agreed to buy Della's hair for $20.00. When Madame Sofronie was done Della's hair was above her shoulders. Della went to the store and lokked around for a gift for Jim. She found a chain, a nice platinum chain. The chain costed her all $20.00 and she was left with .87cents. Della was anxious for Jim to get home, when he finally arrived he was awe struck but the length of Della's hair. Della expalined to Jim what she had done and handed him the present. Jim lauhged when he saw the chain. Jim the told Della how he sold his great great grandfathers watch to buy Della the set of combs that she adored. Della then ended up laughing because even though she now had the combs that she wanted so badly she couldn't use them, because her hair was to short. The Three Magi were mentioned. The Three Magi are the the wise men that followed the the star of david on the day of Christ's birth. The gifts that they gave him were not as important as the respect and love that they had for him. So again the theme of the story it's not what you give to a person that matters, it's the love and respect that you have for each other that matters in the end, and if you have that nothing can be wrong..... ===