Aisha Adamu- The Gift of The Magi Plot

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  1. Hi guys today we're going to be looking at the
  2. plot triangle of the Gift of the Magi Guide by
  3. O Henry.
  4. The first part of the plot triangle is the exposition.
  5. The exposition is set in the beginning of the story
  6. and it's broken into three main parts.
  7. We have the setting, the characters and the subject matter.
  8. The setting is broken into two aspects.
  9. We have the special setting and the temporal setting.
  10. The special setting is the where and the temporal setting
  11. is the when the special setting of the story is
  12. not specified However, because United States dollars is used in
  13. the story, one could infer that the story takes place
  14. in the United States.
  15. The temporal setting of the story is specified in the
  16. beginning of the story as christmas Eve.
  17. There are two main characters in this story.
  18. We have a woman named Dela and her husband named
  19. Jim. The subject matter of the story is a young
  20. couple who wants to buy christmas gifts for each other.
  21. After the exposition, we have the Rising Action.
  22. The Rising Action of the story is comprised of the
  23. main events that lead up to the climax.
  24. The Rising action is built on the conflict in the
  25. gift of the Magi.
  26. The conflict is that Della and Jim decide to exchange
  27. gifts with each other.
  28. However, Della doesn't have enough money to buy Jim a
  29. gift as her income had been shrunk to $20 a
  30. week and she had a lot of expenses to cover.
  31. Della had only saved up $1 and each seven cents
  32. and this was not enough to buy Jim a good
  33. gift. This kind of conflict is an external conflict.
  34. As she was bustling with poverty.
  35. The rising action starts by Della realizing that their families
  36. most prized possessions, R James watch in her hair.
  37. Delta has extremely long hair that reaches just below her
  38. knees and at this moment she realizes exactly what she
  39. had to do.
  40. She headed off to Madame Software, Annie's hair please.
  41. Yeah, The last Sofronie, whether she would buy her hair
  42. and Sofronie says she would buy Della's hair for $20.
  43. As Della was in desperate need for money to buy
  44. jim a gift, she quickly agreed to cut off her
  45. hair. One Stella has gotten the money from cutting off
  46. her hair.
  47. She buys jim a platinum fab team to use for
  48. his watch.
  49. When she gets home, she starts to worry that Jim
  50. will no longer love her and will no longer think
  51. she's pretty now that she has no hair.
  52. In the text, she says, please God let him think
  53. I'm still pretty.
  54. After the rising action of a story.
  55. We have the climax.
  56. The climax of the story is the height of tension
  57. or the point where the main character faces the biggest
  58. problem in the gift of the Magi.
  59. The climax of the story is the point where Jim
  60. comes back home from work and stairs, Adela in complete
  61. shock. He's completely dumbfounded when he discovers that Della has
  62. caught off all of her hair.
  63. Data becomes worried because she's unsure of why Jim is
  64. giving her this look and she thinks that Jim is
  65. looking at her this way because she thinks because she
  66. looks ugly without her hair.
  67. Here we have a direct quote showing how tense this
  68. moment where it was and the text it says Jim
  69. stopped inside the door.
  70. He was as quiet as a hunting dog when he
  71. is near a bird.
  72. His eyes looked strangely abdullah and there was an expression
  73. in them that she could not understand.
  74. It felt her with fear.
  75. It was not anger nor surprise nor anything she had
  76. been ready for.
  77. He simply looked at her with that strange expression on
  78. his face.
  79. Della went to him, Jim dear!
  80. She cried, don't look at me like that.
  81. I had my hair cut off and sold it.
  82. I couldn't live through christmas without giving you a gift.
  83. My hair will grow again, You won't care about you.
  84. My hair grows very fast.
  85. It's christmas jim, let's be happy.
  86. You don't know what a nice what a beautiful gift
  87. I got you.
  88. Yeah, yeah.
  89. After the climax we have the following action.
  90. The following action of the story is the point where
  91. the tension reduces and the problem begins to be solved.
  92. In the gift of the Magi, Jim tells data not
  93. to make any mistake as he was not dumbfounded or
  94. shocked because he thought Della looked ugly without her hair.
  95. He told the La that once she opened the bag
  96. she would discover the reason why Jim was dumbfounded.
  97. Della opens the package and discovers that Jim has also
  98. sold his watch to buy Della a set of cones
  99. for her hair, not just any combs.
  100. He bought her the expensive combs that she had admired
  101. up broadway and the only reason that Jim was dumbfounded
  102. or shocked was because Della wouldn't be able to use
  103. his gifts without her hair.
  104. The resolution of a story follows the falling action.
  105. This is a point where the conflict is resolved and
  106. the gift of the Magi.
  107. The resolution is that Della is happy upon realizing that
  108. Jim still loves her.
  109. Della and Jim both decided to put their gifts away
  110. as the gifts were too nice to use in the
  111. President. They both saw their most valuable possessions to buy
  112. each other gifts that ended up not being useful to
  113. them at all.
  114. The story ends by the narrator comparing Jim and Della
  115. to the Maguy, the three wise men, he says that
  116. even though Della and Jim were quite foolish, people like
  117. Della and Jim, who made sacrifices to bring joy to
  118. each other, where the Maggie and we're the wisest amongst
  119. all who give and receive gifts.
  120. Thank you for listening.
  121. I hope you learned something.