After Twenty Years O.Henry

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After Twenty YearsO.Henry
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Key Vocabulary

• Spectators- onlookers
• Intricate- complex full of complicated detail
• Destiny-what will necessary happen to any person
  or thing
• Dismissal- gloomily miserable
• Absurdity-ridiculous- foolishness

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Summary

• In this story After Twenty Years two men went
  to this cigar store one night at ten o clock. So
  then they partied there. Then they said Meet me
  here at ten o clock in twenty years. Then after
  twenty years they met. The one guy Bob said your
  not Jimmy. And he wasnt Jimmy. But Jimmy told
  that guy to give bill a note. the note said Bob
  I was at the appointed place at the right time.
  When you struck the match to light you cigar I
  saw it, the face of a man wanted.

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Questions

• Do you think that Officer Wells did the right
  thing? Explain
• Where is the story set?-

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