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Based on the short story “The Last Leaf”, i emphatize and symphatize Johnsy the most. She suffered pneumonia and already give up on life. The disease will kill her anytime. Johnsy laid on her bed as it was the only thing she can do. She was depending her life on the leaves of the tree outside her house. For her, when the last leaf fall, she will go. I emphatize her because i know she was dying because of the disease and that was very hard for her to handle. She also wanted to paint The Bay of Naples in Italy but the disease turn out to be the obstacle for her to achieve the dream.She also began to act strangely because of the disease. If i was her, i will act like her too because my confidence to stay alive will become low.

I symphatize Johnsy because she was living in sorrow and despair due to pneumonia. The disease made her very weak and sick that it made her mind full with strange ideas. For instance, she believed that her life would be over once the last leaf fall from the tree. I empathize her because i know that what she has been going through is too much for her to handle. On top of that, she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples in Italy someday but the disease crushes her dream just like that. She kept counting the number of leaf left on the tree because she has lost hope and faith in furthering life. She was just waiting for the time for her to die without taking any alternative to get better.

Based on the short story The Last Leaf by O'Henry, a character did me emphatize is Sue. In this story, Sue and Johnsy are bestfriend. Plus, Johnsy is a person who is suffering pneumonia. Sue helped Johnsy a lot in order to recover the disease. She gives encourages and gives support to Johnsy to get a life. In my point of view, sometimes Sue feel gave up because in this story she cried in the workroom after the doctor leave. Besides, she willing to spend her time to finish her drawing in order to support their life. Other than that, Sue often persuade Johnsy when Johnsy feel gave up in her life. If I were Sue, definitely, I will not bear to face this situation. As a conclusion, I am very emphatize towards her because she did many efforts and willing to do anything towards Johnsy.

Based on the short story that I have listened, ‘The storyteller’ by H.H Munro, I chose the bachelor as the better storyteller because the bachelor was able to attract the children’s attention. I love the way he responded to the children’s questions and bring them to a whole new imagination for the children’s mind. Other than that, the bachelor was able to come up with a good storyline though a bit improper for the children, on the spot. Apart from that he was not grumpy as what he looks like. Lastly, from the story that he had created, he had given the children longing to listen to other stories and might have changed their attitude.

The better storyteller is the bachelor. He is more confident in telling the stories and very clever as well. While telling the story, the children asked him questions. He abled to answer and alter the story according to the question. For example, the kids asked him whether there were sheep in the park. The bachelor gave them an unexpected answer by saying there were no sheep because the Prince’s mother had a dream that one day the prince would be killed by either a sheep or a clock falling over him. The aunt is the opposite. The kids asked her question whether the rescuers save the girl if she hadn’t been good, she gave them lame answers by saying that they would save the girl if she wasn’t good, but they’ll do it faster if she is good. I choose the bachelor over the aunt because he keeps his story intriguing.

From the short story of The Storyteller by H.H. Munro, the better storyteller is the Bachelor. In my point of view, the way he express the story is very interesting and more exciting. With clearly and properly, the Bachelor explained the details from the beginning until the ending of the story included the name of the character who is Bertha and so on. If I were the children definitely I will understand what the story is about. Besides, I will feel more eager and passionate to question the Bachelor for more details. In the other hand, I will learned more moral values from the story that told by the Bachelor which one of them is helping someone with full of sincerity. Thus, I will salute the Bachelor for telling the specific story and I feel more satisfied. As conclusion, Bachelor is the better storyteller.

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In my personal opinion, i do not like the ending of the story. The reasons are, the narrator should not sabotage Richard and Phillip on their event for his own satisfaction. For example, the narrator was the one who stole the lady’s purse and made it looked like Richard and Phillip were the ones who stole it. Although, i understand that he was pressured by his mother for not being as perfect as Richard and Phillip, that does not mean it is okay for him to take a negative action as a revenge to them. Instead, he should be more mature in the situation. For instance, try to be better in other things to prove to his mother that he is just as good as Richard and Phillip. Next, Richard and Phillip were considered innocent since they did not do anything wrong or offensive in particular towards the narrator. In fact, they are nice to him. For example, they invited the narrator to their BBQ lunch reunion at the beach eventhough they do not have a close relationship with the narrator. It was a bit of an injustice for them to got caught by the police instead of the narrator.