what is the plot of the gift of the magi?
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THE GIFT OF THE MAGI\nBY\nO. HENRY\n\nONE 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 one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. \n\nThere 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 smiles, with sniffles predominating. \n\nWhile 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. \n\nIn the vestibule 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.” \n\nThe “Dillingham” had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor 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, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good. \n\nDella 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 a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn’t 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. Something fine and rare and sterling—something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim. \n\nThere 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 longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art. \n\nSuddenly 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 let it fall to its full length. \n\nNow, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim’s gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s. The other was Della’s hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty’s 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 his beard from envy. \n\nSo now Della’s 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 splashed on the worn red carpet. \n\nOn 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. \n\nWhere she stopped the sign read: “Mme. S
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A discarded silk tophat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colder climate, Frosty and a young girl who he befriends stow away on a freight train headed for the north pole. Little do they know that the magician is following them, and he wants his hat back. \n  Ultimately the Magician is thwarted, but in the process Frosty melts.  He is resurrected by Santa Claus when he places the silk hat on top of the puddle where he had melted.
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Try the plot-o-matic, it helps in just this type of instance.\n\nGood luck with your story :-)
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You haven't read "Order Of The Phoenix?!" ("Tsk, tsk!")\n\nOkay, I'll tell you -- but, I WARN YOU: This WILL be a "Spoiler", so if you DON'T want to know the answer, DON'T READ THIS -- BUY THE BOOK, INSTEAD!!!\n\n...."Hogwarts" is invaded! ...."Dumbledore" is forced to flee! ....In an EPIC BATTLE, of "Good vs. Evil", "Harry" LOSES someone "close to him", AND, in one of the "final" chapters, of the book, "Harry" TRASHES "Dumbledore's" office, in a fit of RAGE!\n\nWhen "Order Of The Phoenix" is released, into theaters -- either THIS Thanksgiving, or NEXT Thanksgiving -- one thing WILL be certain: It WILL be as dark as "Goblet Of Fire" -- if not, DARKER!\n\nTo quote "Hermione Granger", from "Goblet Of Fire": {"Everything's going to change now, isn't it?"}\n\n....And then, there's "Harry's" reply: {"Yes!"}\n\n....And if you think, that, this is the worst of it, then you NEED TO READ "The Half-Blood Prince" -- for Evil spreads its wings over "Hogwarts", in THE MOST DIABOLICAL WAY! And, NO ONE WILL BE IMMUNE to the consequences, that follow....!!!
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Great novel of time-travel and history called\nA Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book--Time travel with the Kagan's Kids to 10th Century Kiev, "When the Jews of Eastern Europe Had No Hope Other Than the Grace of the Almighty, The Coming of the Meshiach, Or the Arrival of the Khazars."\nISBN 0-595-38159-6
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You can get its summary here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
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well, you have to understand that the book itself is not about magic/witchcraft. It is about a boy who is accepted into a private school and must pass many trials and fight many evils to protect the people and ideals he loves from harm. If you really think about it, all he is trying to do is stop the man who killed his parents from killing more people. The only thing that really makes it diferent from any other murder mystery novel is the obstacles (both external and internal) he must overcome and the means he has to overcome them. \n\nNow, when you look at it that way,... is it really that bad? It's not teaching kids to worship Satan. It's not teaching them that God doesnt exist. It's not teaching them to turn a book into a rat, or to follow a different religious path. (simply because there are people who become obsessed with it, doesnt mean that everyone does. it is a series. if you have read one book in a series, and liked it, wouldnt YOU like to see how it ends?) It is simply a means to entertain your child or even yourself. It DOES teach the value of friendship. It DOES teach that you should be loyal to your ideals, to your friends, and most of all, to yourself.\n\nNOW do you still have a problem with it? Isn't it better to think about things rather than assume that because it has magic in it, it is wrong?
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You can make them fight as much magic as your heart desires.  Jesus and Harry both are fairly tales.
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This is my best answer for your question, me being a narnia freak and all. It is most likely that he will make The Magician's Nephew after The Horse and His Boy.
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There was this wrapping paper, it was supposed to be dogs and snowmen but I'm telling you it looked like ghosts defecating. Then they wrapped it poorly, corners were askew and everything. And they tied it together with brown twine.\nYeah.\nThat was bad.\nNice gift, though, a bright red sweater. I forgave.
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I'm not sure exactly...I'm pretty sure that it was just after the part where Satan tricks Frodo into getting caught in Jesus's web, and Jesus poisons him with his fangs.\nOr maybe it was after the part where Jesus swallows a puzzle piece and the man in the yellow hat takes him to the hospital. I'm not totally sure.
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I'm reading the book now.  It is about a supposed secret society that protected the secret that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalen and had a son.  The artist da vVnci was supposed to have been a member of that secret society, and hid clues about it in his paintings.\n\nRemember, it is a work of fiction.  Not a bad read, and makes you think, but still fiction.
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The story highlights the fact that education is key!\n\nHuman being are born knowing nothing and they have to learn everything.  \n\nThe story indicates that the person did not know that Jesus Christ changed the calendar and the holidays and that the holiday of Christmas did not exist before Jesus Christ.\n\nSupport the Christian Church and continue its teachings - you will feel good about yourself.
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the plot:  a man gets caught up in a quest to find the "holy grail. Murder, deceit and high states adventure.\n\nThe underlying theme: The Bible is baloney and Christ was a married mortal man and not the Son of God. \n\nIn numerous places in the book scholarly looking persons with fancy degrees go into speeches about how the Bible is a bunch of bunk. To the average person they seem like powerful arguments but in reality NONE of the arguments (some could say blasphemies) about Christ hold up to the facts of History.\n\nWhats Real?\n\nThe names of places, artwork, historical figures, the names of documents like "Q" and the "gnostic gospels"\n\nWhat's false?\n\nEverything else, the conclusions and "facts" presented about the above people, documents, and artwork.\n\nThe book took great liberty with history (AKA LIED) in order to create a scenereo where the Christ of the Bible could be turned into a regular person. \n\nThe book says that a church council gave christ his deity a few hundred years after the fact; when the gospels were written well before that coucil was even a thought. The book also draws heavily on the errors and traditions within the Roman Catholic Church to attempt to discredit the bible. While the Roman Church did bring in pagan idols (re Icons, praying to saints) This does not alter the integrity of the Bible, but merely of the Church, since these things are in violation of the 10 commandments(ye shall have no other gods before me)\n\n\n(spoiler: (from book - i borrowed a copy)\nOne of the characters turns out to be a descendant of Christ, thus "proving" Dan Brown's point.\n\nAt the end, Langden (main character) bows and prays over the bones of Mary Magdaline\n\nEven most critics are giving the movie bad reviews\n\nBottom Line: \nAs a Christian, I cannot justify sending money to a person who tries deceitfully to destroy the Christ I worship.
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Try this site...\n\nhttp://www.bookrags.com/The_Giver
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Hey kewlchic1...\n\n I've just read the short story and I enjoyed reading about the miracles of brother Gómez in the city of Lima.\n The scorpion alluded in the title is mentioned in the last miracle of the story. One day, brother Gómez is visited by a peddler who, knowing of the brother's miraculous reputation, hopes to be granted the miracle of having loads of money. Brother Gómez grants him the miracle by transforming a scorpion in his cell into a scorpion shaped jewel. The peddler uses it to pay his debts and make money. At the end, he returns the jewel to brother Gómez and he brings it to life again.\n\nHope this helps!
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The name of the book is The Third Millennium by Paul D. Meier.  It tells the story of Michael's, the arch angel, assignment to protect that Jewish family.  The daughter dies in childbirth.  Her husband was a used car salesman.  His father was a Baptist minister who figured out where they needed to go for protection.  The son in the family loved a blind Chinese girl but they never married.  They did not move to Petra either.  They stayed in the U.S.  \n\nIt is an excellent book.  I have read it several times.  My cover is worn off and the pages are yellow and dog eared.