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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

'Relations between o. henry’s life and the story “buried treasure”\r'

'O. hydrogen was innate(p) in September 11, 1862 as William Sydney usher in Greensboro, North Carolina. hall porter’s male pargonnt, Argentina Sidney porter movemented as a physician ( scan print, 08). Unfortunately, Porter’s mother died when he was aged three and was so raised by his grandmother and aunt. Porter was an dotty reader but he discontinued discipline at the age of 15 historic period. He started functional in a drug composition and subsequent on a ranch in Texas.\r\nHe then went to Houston where among other jobs he worked as a bank clerk. Money was found to be lose from the bank he was working in and he was required to stand trial but he fled to avoid trial. He returned to Austria when he heard that his married woman was in her death bed in 1897. He was convicted of embezzlement of funds although there questions arose over his guilt. He was jailed in 1898 till 1901. He wrote his commencement exercise works in Penitentiary at Columbus, which l abel his career start as an author.\r\nIn his work, â€Å" bury Treasure”, there are various aspects of O. Henry’s life that are related to the story. It is indicated in his biography that he wrote ab emerge the life of indifferent people in New York City (On-line literature, 08). In the story, he says that his idea of a happy habitation is an eight room house in a groove of live oaks by the side of a charco on a Texas prime, a piano, an automatic pseudo and ponies. This reflects the wishes of most ordinary people.\r\nAnother fact in the author’s life that is related to his work on the buried protect is his education. O. Henry dropped aside of school at the age of 15 years old meaning he never succeed his college education. This is reflected in the story as he reveals presently and again his contempt for college education.\r\nThis is brought forward by his locating towards Goodloe Banks who is a young man from college. O. Henry wrote that Goodloe Banks r an to books, manners, culture, rowing, discernment and clothes while he was more into baseball game and Friday-night debating societies and more by way of culture and pricey horseback ride ( unpolluted reader, 08). O. Henry clearly brings out the fact that education is not always the tombstone as the character Goodloe Banks is portrayed as better but his education does not lead him to the treasure. Goodloe’s education is portrayed to be for exploitation as the character Ed exploits him to get to the buried treasure in this case Miss May Martha Mangum.\r\nPorter’s father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. Although a lot is not said about him, O. Henry at roughly point could be referring to him in the story ‘ conceal Treasure’. In the story, May Martha’s father is said to be a man john whiskers and spectacles. He is an etymologist. Scientists in the story are said to be apt to be absent- minded. Algernon Sidney Porter is obviously in the same category of scientists and because O. Henry could be indirectly referring to him as absent-minded.\r\nFinally, in the book 41 stories, Porter is said to rich person gone to Texas primarily for health reasons and worked on a sheep ranch and lived with a family that had close ties with the Porter’s family in North Carolina (O.Henry, 84). Porter gathered friendship of ranch life which he describes in the story ‘Buried Treasure’. In the story, the character, Ed, is said to pauperism to retire to a ranch with three gm heads of cattle in Texas.\r\nWorks Cited List:\r\nClassical Reader (2008). Buried Treasure (Options). Viewed on fifteenth March, 2008 at http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.973/\r\nO. Henry. Selected Stories. Guy Davenport: Viking Penguin. 1993\r\nO. Henry. 41 Stories. Burton Raffel: New American Library. 1984\r\nOnline Literature (2008). O. Henry-Biography and Works. Viewed on 15th March, 2008 at http://www.online-literature.co m/o_henry/\r\nRead Print (2008). O. Henry-Books and Biography. Viewed on 15th March, 2008 at http://www.readprint.com/author-45/o_henry\r\n'

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