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DATOS DEL AUTOR..O. HENRY• William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North

Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–65). William's parents had married on April 20, 1858. When William was three, his mother died from tuberculosis, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother. As a child, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels; his favorite works were Lane's translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy

• Porter graduated from his aunt Evelin Maria Porter's elementary school in 1876. He then enrolled at the Lindsey Street High School. His aunt continued to tutor him until he was fifteen. In 1879, he started working in his uncle's drugstore and in 1881, at the age of nineteen, he was licensed as a pharmacist. At the drugstore, he also showed off his natural artistic talents by sketching the townsfolk.

THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT• Della had a very por familia , james was a very young boy della was

worried because he could not pay his small room but james was a very lucky guy.

• a very special thing for james della was another very special thing for her beautiful hair was della della was very happy because I saw james in the store when she came from the store.

• della look at some beautiful glasses but she did not have enough money to buy them, james I look della poor room but did not care james put his arm around della and james said he loved her so much

• della sold her hair to buy a present to James because she did not have enough money but James did not care.

SOAPY’S CHOICE• Soapy I was sitting in a chair in the madison park in new York she wanted

to commit a crime for the locked up to jail and then she could eat and free drink in jail she decided that since she in all restaurants would unpaid but she for the locked up to jail decides to steal an umbrella for someone else but after a while she realized I was doing wrong but then she wanted to change her life but the police arrive and arrest if she helplessly.

A WALK IN AMNESIA• the wife of Edwin gave every tomorrow a tasit tea also told him that has

careful with the fur coat her every day towards it by his friend volney Doctor was telling edwin not work much as they can get sick because edwin was a good worker and liked what edwin did was a famous I lawyeebut suffered from amnesia and who worked tirelessly to any edwin amanesia on a train with 3000 dollars in your pocket and then remembered nothing and people will began to ask his name but did not know it then decides to start a new life with those who met volney called the doctor and his wife so they can see what medication to take and then asked something and then edwin remembered everything.

TILDY’S MOMENT • Ailee was a very pretty girl and tildy was not very beautiful girl she

worked in a bar called bogle one day such a man began drinking heavily but only you were asking things ailee that she was very beautiful one such day a man had I overdosed and kissed tildy then she felt very happy that he was saying that he wanted a lot but it was a lie when tildy found out that she was very sad and began to mourn one day of those he approached to tildy and put his arm around her and let him love her

THE MEMENTO

• she was a actris brodway having memories of his life in his apartment

• and all the things she has lived because she can not forget very easily but her mother told her she would repeat a phrase that was not often worry and then after a few months she lost the conocimineto and so could begin a better life.

MESSAGE OR OPINIÓN OF THE BOOK

• message or opinion the text is that everyone in the text are people with great importance since some of those people reflected courage with all the problems they had but the important thing is that reading the affection people feel about the other people are very resilient and others are not because they do not feel the importance of affection for the people of this story or the people around them.