Write a few (2 or 3) paragraphs about the ideas in the story "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry. ame
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• The story's ending
• What do you think of Jimmy's actions in the story? Were his actions a betrayal of Bob? Is there anything else he could
have done?
• Is friendship forever?
• Do you have friends now that you think you will stay close with in the future? What is it about your friendship that you
think will last? Discuss.
• Different values, different paths
• Jimmy and Bob were good friends who wanted different things out of life. How do their professions reflect their different
values and the directions their lives took?
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Explanation:

“After Twenty years” by O. Henry is an interesting story. The story entitled ‘After Twenty years’ is about two best friends who had to part ways. They return to keep an appointment they had made twenty years ago.

. A 38-year old Bob is waiting at the door of a hardware store in New York to meet his friend Jimmy Wells. A policeman is on patrol duty. He asks Bob why he is standing there. Bob tells the cop that he (Bob) is waiting to meet his friend.

Bob says that before parting they had made a promise to meet at the same place at the same time on the same date after twenty years. Bob tells the policeman that he (Bob) has kept his promise. Bob is sure that Jimmy Wells will surely come and meet him. After listening to the story, the cop walks away.

Twenty minutes later, a tall man in plain clothes comes to meet Bob. Bob thinks him Jimmy Wells, but realizes that the man is not his friend. Actually, the man is a police officer in plain clothes. He gives Bob a letter from Jimmy. Bob learns from the letter that the police officer whom he had met earlier was Jimmy, his old friend. *'

Jimmy Wells identifies Bob as the most wanted criminal in New York. But he does not want to arrest his intimate friend. So he sends another police officer to do the work.

For Jimmy Wells duty is more important than friendship.

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in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,