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Have you ever read a story that makes you think of another similar story? Well if you have, you can relate better to this essay and furthermore understand it, because in the following , I will be comparing and contrasting two stories: "The gift of the magi", and " ....

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.... the necklace, the couple discovers the diamonds are fake in the original necklace. In "the gift of the Magi", a woman sells her hair to buy her husband a watch chain, only to come home to find that her husband sold his watch to buy her some hair combs. There are many similarities, though: the women in both stories need to get something and get it, only to end up with something worse than before. The plots of these stories are good to contrast and compare, because they have so many similarities, but at the same time they are so different. There aren't many similarities in the theme of these stories at all. They teach totally different lessons. For e ....