New Yorkers

Tomoya Suda

· Author: O’HENRY

· Genre: Short stories

· Date started: Monday 21st March

· Date finished: Monday 21st March

· Describing the book:

There are 5 short stories.

1^st The Christmas Present

2^nd Soapy’s Choice

3^rd A Walk in Amnesia

4^th Tildy's Moment

5^th The Memento

1^st

The main characters are Della and her husband Jim.

Jim has only one dollar and eight-seven cents. Near Christmas, Della wanted to give a gold-chain to her husband. So, she sold her beautiful hair and she could buy it. But at Christmas, Jim gave expensive combs to her. Her hair is very short now. Therefore, they decide to keep their presents for a time when her hair is long again.

2^nd

The main character is Soapy.

Soapy wanted to be in prison. There is a lot of food and good friends and so on. He had no money! He did many wrong things but he couldn’t get arrested. One day, He walked around a town. He found a church, and went there.

He could change his mind!! He decided to work!! He was very happy. So he jumped and looked around quickly. He was very noisy. So he put in prison about 3 months.

3^rd

The main characters are Bellford, and Pinkhammer (The same person)

Bellford got amnesia, because he worked very hard. He forgot his name! so he lived as a Pinkhammer. And he enjoyed his life. Later he met his wife and friend, and talked a lot, and he remembered I am a Bellford and a lot of things.

(Amnesia means that you can’t remember anything)

4^th

The main characters are Aileen and Tidy. They are best friends! And Seders.

Aileen is a very tall, beautiful, and full of life. Tidy is small, fat, and not beautiful. One day Mr Seders came in for his meal. He drank too much beer. He finished his meal, got up, put his arm round Tidy, kissed her loudly and walked out of the restaurant. She fell in love. She wore bright clothes, did her hair differently and so on. She changed!! But a few days later, he came again and said "I want to say sorry for doing that to you. I drank alcohol a lot." She cried a lot. But she still had her friend. And Ailleen put her arm round Tidy.

5^th

The main character is D’Armande.

Amanda is a actress. Every day she did dancing, singing, and got onto her swing. She thought the man who came to the theatre is an animal!! One day she fell in love and left her work. She did not say she was an actress. After they were married, she knew that he was in love before. Then she told him it. It was when she was an actress. He knew that she was a actress!! They are happy.

This book’s level is just right for me. I could read it easily. I throught that friends are important. Most story’s characters have no money, but they have friend or husband. Even if we have a lot of money, we are not able to buy them! I want to live as these characters.