• Hassin ur Rehman

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• Muhammad Arsalan Siddique

  Author

• Suhail Ahmed

  Author

• Shahzad ur Rehman

  Author

O. Henry was an American short story writer. He received fame from his short stories
around the world. One of his famous stories is ‘The Gift of Magi’. He includes many things in
this story such as working class characters, real life people, sacrifice of love, devotion and
incredulous ending. In this story, Husband and wife (Jim and Della) have valuable belongings.
They sacrifice their belongings for sake of expressing true and pure love on Christmas’ Eve,
ultimatelytheir actions have a sharp similarity with Magi, and therefore they also come to be
called Magi. Exchanging gifts are very common around the world on special occasions, these
gifts show generosity and care for one another. It is obvious that generosity comes with act of
sacrification. The sacrification becomes more valuable when a person is poor or at a despair
situation and he sacrifices his only valuable thing which he has. The researcher will analyze
various research articles as well as the content of the story to find out the theme of sacrification
for the sake of pure love.

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