QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
O HENRY
FOR CLASS 11
What did jimmy write to his friend?
After his settlement at Elmore, jimmy’s life was totally changed. The transformation in jimmy brings the love affair with Annabel Adam, the banker’s daughter. The meeting with Annabel was the turning point of jimmy’s life. It changed him. The letter written by him shows how his personality has been changed falling in love with Annabel.
He wrote a letter to one of his friends giving him his tools. In a letter to his old friend, Jimmy wrote that he wanted to meet him at Sullivan’s Place in Little Rock on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. He wanted to present his old friend Billy with his burglar tools that were impossible for anyone else to replicate. He has written that he has given up his job as a burglar and now he is a successful businessman and will marry the most beautiful girl in the world and live a straight life. And He also informed his friend that after his marriage he would sell and sell in the west and live with his wife without committing a crime in his life. At the end of the letter, he requests Billy to be sure to come again and pick up
Alias Jimmy Valentine written O. Henry is one of the beautiful short stories in English literature. The plot and the twist of the story, the impressiveness of the hero’s love for his girlfriend, and the surprise emotional ending are something new that makes the story fantastic.
The main character in the story is Jimmy Valentine, Jimmy Valentine is a burglar by profession. He is also an inventor as he has also developed many useful hacking tools. Jimmy was pardoned by the governor from punishment but after his release, he resumed burglary and fled to Elmore for safety. It shows his ingenuity. At Elmore, he fell in love with a beautiful girl Annabel Adams when you first saw her in front of Elmore bank. After that, he completely abandoned his dark life and transformed himself into a good, honest citizen. He also established himself as a successful shop keeper. She proved to be a good lover when she won Annabel’s heart. He did not hesitate to fear the revelation of his past life as he rescued little Agatha and her hacking tools in front of everyone. It testifies to his personality and to his faithfulness. He changed his mind and wanted to be arrested at the end of the story. Jimmy, a former criminal by profession, finally pretends to be a real man and a lover.
Evaluate the character of Ben Price
jimmy valentine by O Henry is an American crime drama where Ben Price played a very strong role. For him,the climax of the story becomes more interesting as well as captivating to the readers.
Ben price is a high-ranked police officer or an honest detective who arrested Jimmy and sent him to prison for his spring field safe cracking case. But shortly after his release, Jimmy resumed his old business of safe for cracking three times in a row. Ben of Price was summoned in and an analysis of the performance of the safecracker came to the conclusion that these were not made by someone other than Jimmy. He followed Jimmy and eventually he reached at Elmore where Jimmy lived with Ralph D Spencer’s ID and making love with Annabel Adam, the bankers’ daughte. But when he visited Elmore bank to arrest Jimmy, he discovered Jimmy breaking a safe. But this time jimmy had cracked the safe not to steal but to save the child’s life. Ben’s price realized that Jimmy had been changed, now he was a new man. Therefore it would be a crime on his side if he would arrest Ralph D Spenser, a kind-hearted man who could sacrifice himself for others. Ben Price was a real hero in his heart and he left pretending not to know Jimmy.
