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Falling Action

After Twenty Years

Theme:

Friendship is not more important than doing what's right.

Climax

Short Story By: O. Henry

When the two men pass by a brightly-lit drugstore, Bob realizes that the other man is not Jimmy Wells.

A man comes up, claiming to be Jimmy Wells, and he walks with Bob.

The police officer leaves Bob to wait for his friend.

Bob lights a Cigar, illuminating his face.

The man, who is really a plainclothes officer, arrests Bob and hands him a note from his friend, the real Jimmy.

Bob explains that he is waiting for a friend whom he had sworn to meet on the same day and time twenty years after they parted.

Resolution

Conflict:

The conflict is internal because Jimmy must decide between his loyalty to the law, and loyalty to his friend.

A police officer strolls down the street with a natural swagger. He runs into “Silky” Bob, who is waiting in front of a store.

Exposition

Bob opens the note. It says that Jimmy, who was the Police Officer that had talked to Bob earlier, recognized his face from a wanted poster when Bob lit the cigar. He couldn’t arrest Bob himself, so he sent the plainclothes man to do it.

Opinion

I chose this book because it is a prime example of how people can change, and that you might not really know someone, or what they will do. I liked it because the suspense and plot twists make it an interesting story. This story is so good, I would make no changes. I would like to know where the author got the idea for the story. Did it happen to him, or maybe to a friend?

The story takes place in New York City, in front of a store. “Silky” Bob, Jimmy Wells, and a plainclothes police officer are the characters. The story begins as a police officer walks down the street.

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