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Critique: The Gift of the Magi

Critique: The Gift of the Magi

💖Title: The Gift of the Magi
💖Author/Writer: William Sydney Porter
💖Character/Description:
        *Mrs. Della Dillingham- the wife of Mr. James Dillingham who is saving money to buy a precious gift for his husband, but she had have enough money to buy, so she cut her hair to sold it and buy the gift for his lovable husband, James.
         *Mr. James Dillingham- the husband of Mrs. Della Dillingham who is saving money to buy a gift for her lovable wife but he hadn't enough money, so he sold his watch so that he can buy a precious combs for her wife, Della for the incoming of Christmas Day or Eve.
💖Plot/Setting: Dillingham's House
💖Theme: "Love is the most precious gift than other material things in this world."
💖Central message:

                                 It tell us that Love is the most powerful thing in this world, because of love we earn something special to our love ones in any occasion just like Christmas Eve and everyday we spent memories with them, so we sacrifice everything to make our love ones happy in a simple way or in a precious way that they surely accept and give the love that they deserve.

                       -Edmund James A. Homena
                       

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