Analysis Of The Cp And The Anthem

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I. The introduction of the author and the story. The author of this story is O Henry. Henry was a distinguished American storywriter. He wrote more than 300 short stories in his life, and all of his stories were ingeniously conceived, with the endings always contrary to readers' expectations His father was a doctor. He has a cheater of life as its theme, written many short stories. The most outstanding of his short stories such as “Love Sacrifice”, “The Cop and the Anthem”, and the “furnished rooms”, “Magi Gifts”. Such as “The Leaf of Rattan” among the list of the world’s outstanding short story. "Police And Hymn" are one of European Henry's representative works. Humorous charming, the pungent satire, the idea unusual plot winding are changeable, is this novel artistic feature. The novel poorly describes because to be unemployed, the home less tramp, for enters the jail to be able to find a place to live but intentionally the crime, several time causes trouble has not all achieved the goal, afterwards wanted to change evilly reforms, the cop have actually arrested him. II. The analysis of the element of “The Cop and the Anthem” 2.1 Conflict The conflict may be either external, when the protagonist is pitted against some object or force outside himself, or internal, in which case the issue to be resolved is one within the protagonist’s own self. The conflict of this story: the struggle between Soapy and Cop and between man and society. The man and the society is the external one. 2.2 Plot There are four stages in this story. They are exposition, complication, climax and resolution. Exposition: the exposition is the beginning section in which the author provides the necessary background information, sets the tense, establishes the situation, and dates the action . It usually introduces the characters and the conflict, or at lest the potential for conflict.
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