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In "The Gift of the Magi" O. Henry most likely uses the irony of the couple's gifts to express the theme that

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expensive gifts are sometimes a mistake.

love and sacrifice for others is the highest virtue

material goods usually increase in value over time.

it is best to retain one's most prized possessions

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Love and sacrifice for others is the highest virtue.

Explanation:

In the story "The Gift of the Magi," O. Henry describes a couple who want to give beautiful Christmas presents to each other, but lack the money to do so. Therefore, they trade their most valuable possessions in order to afford them. However, the items they traded were essential to their presents, making the exchange ineffective and ironic. Nevertheless, O. Henry suggests that despite this, the two lovers are extremely wise, as they value the "right" things in life. This supports the main theme of the story, which is that love and sacrifice for others is the highest virtue.

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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