ⅠAbout the author
O.henry originally named William Sydney Porter, who is one of famous short-story writer in America. His short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surpri endings. So some critist may think his stories as shallow and contrived,but in my opinion nothing can be perfect and his disadvantage also become his advantage.he did catch the color and movement of the city and show his gift in describing the genuine psychology of ordinary people,especially the poor ones.
中招考试注意事项ⅡSummery of the work
行尸走肉漫画下载The cop and the anthem is a very simple but funny story. The main character is called Soapy, who is a homeless men and also a member of the substantial army of underclass men and women who had flocked to New York City during the earliest years of the twentieth century. The time is located at a late fall. It is becomimg more and more cold for a homeless person, so Soapy plans to go to jail for a shelter by doing something bad. He therefore develops a ries of tactics intended to encourage the police to classify him as a criminal awestbrook
nd arrest him. In fact, this plan itlf is very funny, but the more funny thing is- however he do some bad things that the cop do not care about him and find logical reasons for his bad doing. At last,the most funny thing is when he gives up creat crimes and wants to become a good person, the cop put him into jail for no logical reason! What a surpri ending!
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There are four main feature of this work, which is ironic coincidences, black homor language, and full of contrast, and short surprising ending.
The short story is full of ironic coincidences, which is mainly reflected at the ries of trategies to catch the cop’s attention. At first, he tried to go have dinner and not pay. The upper class restaurant looks down upon him and refu to rve him. A waiter threw him out. Then he threw a brick through a window. Officer didn’t believe he did it becau he didn’t run away. Then he ate dinner at a cheap restaurant and said he couldn’t pay. The waiter just called some guys trow him out rather than called the police! He tried to hit a yo
ung woman of a modest and pleasing gui,but she didn’t call for the cops becau she was a prostitute.The fifth time he acted drunk but the cop thought he was a college student celebrating a win in a football game. Then he tried to steal another man's umbrella. But the victim of the umbrella theft relinquishes the item without a struggle. Becau it is also not his umbrella. At last, he pasd by a church and heard the Sabbath anthem. He was touched by the anthem and decided to be a good person. But the cop put him into jeil becau the cop didn’t believe Soapy have any relation to the church. extends
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In the text,the writer ud a ries of coincidences to show the social situation of America. The victims were just the people who harbourd evil intensions. Both the upper class restarant and the under class restaurant cho to punish Soapy in a rude privite way. Soapy broke the shop window but was not arrested just becau he standed still,and then the cop ran after a innocent pasnger who was running to catch a car. All of the promoted the developing of the plot. At the same time, the coincidences showed the real social situation in a indirect way,the situation was: stranger是什么意思the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility,the weak are the prey of the strong,confusing right a
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The story was full of profound contrast. In the text, there are the description of the environment: “glittering cafe, where are gathered together nightly the choicest products of the grape, the silkworm and the protoplasm,” “electric lights and cunningly displayed wares behind plate-glass made a shop window conspicuous,” “district where by night are found the lightest streets, hearts, vows and librettos,” “Women in furs and men in greatcoats moved gaily in the wintry air.” The description showed the luxurious life of the ruling class and made a sharp contrast to the under class people, such as Soapy, who possd almostly nothing. For Soapy, the prison was a best refuge for him to avoid cold and starvation. By contrasting their needs, we can e the real society in that days: huge gap between the rich and poor.
Another contrast is the cops’attitude to different people, which means the attitude to the rich and poor. When Soapy pretended to be a priest to distorb public order, the cop cho to fogive and cover up Soapy’guilt. When Coapy pretended to be the men who was whori
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ng, the cop turned a blind eye to him. When the rich women turned up, “the policeman hurried to assist a tall blonde in an opera cloak across the street in front of a street car that was approaching two blocks away.” However, the situation become the opposite. When Soapy was thrown out of the restaurant rudely by the waiters, “a policeman who stood before a drug store two doors away laughed and walked down the street.” When Soapy was touched by the anthem and desired to be a good man in future, the cop didn’t believed him and thrown him into prison for three months. The doing of the cops made a profound contrast and revealed the real social condition: bully the weak and fear the strong.
The story is full of black humor, which is obviously reflected in the attitude to the prison for Soapy. In the text, there were the description of the attitude to the prison, which were “for years the hospitable Blackwell's had been his winter quarters”, “three months of assured board and bed and congenial company, safe from Boreas and bluecoats, emed to Soapy the esnce of things desirable” , “it emed that his route to the coveted island was not to be an epicurean one. Some other way of entering limbo must b
e thought of ”, “would leave him filled and happy for the journey to his winter refuge”, “arrest emed but a rosy dream”, “the Island emed very far away ,that would insure his winter quarters on the right little, tight little isle”, “the percuted young woman had but to beckon a finger and Soapy would be practically en route for his insular haven” , “in his fancy the Island emed an unattainable Arcadia”. Prison in his heart were “hospitable”, “journey”, “cozy warmth”, “coveted island”, “a rosy dream”, “little isle”,” insular haven”, and “an unattainable Arcadia”. All of the is a ironic.
