The Last Leaf By O. Henry

The Last Leaf

By: O. Henry

The Last Leaf By O. Henry

SUMMARY

Johnsy has fallen ill and is dying of pneumonia. She watches the leaves fall from a vine outside the window of her room, and decides that when the last leaf drops, she too will die, while Sue tries to tell her to stop thinking like that.

An old, frustrated artist named Behrman lives below Johnsy and Sue. He has been claiming that he will paint a masterpiece, even though he has never even attempted to start. Sue goes to him and tells him that her friend is dying of pneumonia, and that Johnsy claims she will die when the last leaf falls off of a vine outside her window. Behrman scoffs at this as foolishness, but—as he is protective of the two young artists—he decides to see Johnsy and the vine.

In the night, a very bad storm comes and wind is howling and rain is splattering against the window. Sue closes the curtains and tells Johnsy to go to sleep, even though there is still one leaf left on the vine. Johnsy protests but Sue insists on doing so because she doesn't want Johnsy to see the last leaf fall. In the morning, Johnsy wants to see the vine, to be sure that all the leaves are gone, but to their surprise, there is still one leaf left.

While Johnsy is surprised that it is still there, she insists it will fall that day. But it doesn't, nor does it fall through the night nor the next day. Johnsy believes that the leaf stayed there to show how wicked she was, and that she sinned in wanting to die. She regains her will to live, and makes a full recovery throughout the day.

In the afternoon, a doctor talks to Sue. The doctor says that Mr. Behrman has come down with pneumonia and, as there is nothing to be done for him, he is being taken to the hospital to be made comfortable in his final hours. A janitor had found him helpless with pain, and his shoes and clothing were wet and icy cold. The janitor couldn't figure out where he had been on that stormy night, though she had found a lantern that was still lit, a ladder that had been moved, some scattered brushes, and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it. "Look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece - he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell."

THEME

The theme of the story, The Last Leaf is self sacrifice. In the story, we meet Johnsy, who is suffering from pneumonia. She compares her life to that of a vine whose leaves keep falling. She believes that the falling of the last leaf will usher in her death. Buhrman takes the last fallen leaf and sticks it on the wall to make her believe that there's still one more leaf. He later dies of pneumonia.

  

The last leaf is about an old man that already lose his friends

ADAPTATIONS

·         The story was adapted for the screen as part of O. Henry's Full House in 1952, and again in 1983 as a 24-minute film produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

·         The Hindi Film Lootera of [2013] is partly based on this story.

DO YOU KNOW?

William Sydney Porter/O. Henry (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

He is William Sydney Porter/O. Henry

IMPRESSION

When I read  “THE LAST LEAF” tells the about setting time of human life like there's Johnsy pneumona died possibly because you missed those fallen leaves and suddenly tio mean he died.

our sins, how can we forgive our sins for removal? pagbait kindness? Pray? or pray and live our God?

In our compatriots sick, how they resist if their lives are binibilangan? need a miracle? or opportunities.

While I read the story, so I'm fascinated and humor because leafs that it would not fail to live those heroes and hero would survive if magkakatoo.

  Just this adventure of life as a blog passing of time, projects, and ibibigagay you all to live peacefully

right?

Hopefully we will all live dignified ........

to all my classmates would be happy and enjoy the experience as we live. "Everybody was given life by God, we all have limitations in life we must use the right way contrary to our neighbors and our classmates.

happy peacefully .......^_^