The last leaf

Submitted by :Talha sarmad Malik

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Characters

• "The Last Leaf" has three main characters-

• Sue (connector and communicator)
• Joanna
• Behrman (old painter)
• A small character of the "busy" doctor
• Short personification of the disease pneumonia.
MAIN IDEA

• In the Last Leaf by O. Henry we have the theme of commitment,

sacrifice
• friendship
• compassion
• hope and dedication.
SUMMARY

• The story is set in Greenwich Village during a pneumonia

epidemic. It tells the story of an old artist who saves the life of a
young artist, dying of pneumonia, by giving her the will to live.
She can see an ivy plant through the window gradually shedding its
leaves, and she has taken a thought into her head that she will die
when the last leaf falls. Apparently, it never does fall, and she
survives . We learn that in reality the vine lost all its leaves. What
she thought she saw was a leaf, painted on the wall with perfect
realism, by the old artist.
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• The old artist dies of pneumonia contracted while being out in the
wet and cold, painting the last leaf. The old artist who saves the
girl is the great Behrman. Ultimately, however, Behrman stays out
all night in a violent storm to paint a realistic-looking leaf onto the
wall outside Sue and Johnny’s window. Seeing that the “last leaf”—
which is in fact Behrman’s painting—has seemingly survived the
storm two nights in a row, John’s takes hope and begins to recover.
However, Behrman catches pneumonia from exposure to the rain
and cold, and dies a few days later. When Sue tells John’s this, she
remarks that Behrman had finally painted his “masterpiece.”
Moral

• The moral is '' hope''. People have to fight any diploma to live, and
the strong weapon is hope. its basically friendship and sacrifice
along with the power of hope. Friendship has played an important
role in the story- The Last Leaf