T. Melos, "Every work of literature leads up to one great moment of insight, one instant in which the truth stands revealed." In the short story “After twenty years by O. Henry” its about two men who were childhood friends but went their separate ways with a life full of choices. One took a life style with morals and hard work. While the other fellow took the lifestyle of cheating his way to forchun getting whatever he wants, and for one of these men their choices do not lead them to the destination they were out for. In O. Henry’s short story “after twenty years,” it is shown that the types of choices one makes will ultimately lead to one’s destiny.
One way O. Henry shows that the types of choices one makes will ultimately lead to one’s destiny is through the character of Bob in “after twenty years.” In the story so far Bob is waiting for his friend Jimmy outside as it has been twenty years after they seen each other, when a cop notices Bob standing their in the dark of the day as he wonders what this fella is doing. So Bob is explaining what he is doing there when the cop asks him if he has talked to his friend sense it has a really long time when bob answers saying, "Well, yes, for a time we corresponded," said the other. "But after a year or two we lost track of each other. You see, the West is a pretty big proposition, and I kept hustling around over it pretty lively.” What Bob said in this quote is tremendous for showing where his choices will lead him. With him and his best friend they would not have lost contact so fast if something big was not going on with Bob. They were pretty much brothers and brothers do not lose contact so fast after separating and for what reason? He states early in the story while talking to the...
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...king good decisions and the other was making bad decisions. These choices were affecting their lives without even knowing it. Bobs bad choices in life affect where he is going to end up or how he is going to end up. He did not see his destination happening the way it was but, with Bobs bad choices it led him to a path of a small cement jail cell. On the other hand Jimmy Wells had made good choices all throughout his life, having to make one of the hardest choices with choosing between his best friend, his job, and his morals. But Jimmy took the right step in life choosing his morals and job, getting his thief friend arrested sending Jimmy in a better direction. Making good choices is very important in every persons day to day life because it will steer them in the right direction in life leading them to there destination. This is a big part in life for every person.
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Henry becomes bored and unhappy. For time he begins to question his bravery and he
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down that path, due to your own choices and the choices of those that went before you. You are fully immersed in the life of dependence and specialization and wage-slavery that Henry is steadily inching towards, and so you know exactly how much Henry is throwing away, exactly what sort of bondage he is selling himself into.
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The trip down the river gives him time to think about his future life with Catherine, even though he is uncertain if there will ever be a future between them again. The river eventually takes him to a railroad where he makes the decision that he is done with the war and that he made his "farewell to arms". Hemingway uses water as a metaphoric cleansing for Frederic’s past experiences. When Henry emerged from the river, it was as if he was reborn.