After Twenty Years

1. After Twenty Years O.Henry

2. Key Vocabulary • Spectators: Spectators are onlookers. • Intricate: Full of complicated detail. • Destiny: What will necessarily happen to any person or thing. • Dismally: Dismally is gloomily; miserably. • Absurdity: Ridiculousness; foolishness.

3. Questions[ Review And Access • Do you think Officer Wells did the right thing? Explain. • Is there a such thing as “ lifelong friends” ? Explain. • Who has been more successful Bob or Jimmy?

4. Answers • I don’t think that Jimmy did the right thing by having his friend arrested. • I don’t think there is a such thing as a life long friend because people go off to collage and they move. • Jimmy grew up because he became a cop and is helping fight crimes.

5. Summary The book After Twenty Years is about two men in a cigar parlor and Jimmy says to Bob meet me back here in twenty years. So twenty years went by and Bob went back to the cigar parlor. Another man came and Bob said your not Jimmy Wells twenty years is a long time but not long enough to change a mans nose from Roman to a pug.

6. Conclusion I thought After Twenty Years was a good story although it was very short.