大学英语综合教程3,unit_6_the_last_leaf.pptVIP

What do you know about O. Henry? Please tell me the five elements of a novel: time, place, persons, event and end. characters Johnsy and Sue are artists who move into Greenwich Village in New York City. As Winter approaches and the weather gets colder, Johnsy becomes ill with pneumonia. She gets so sick that she believes that when the last leaf falls from the vine outside her window, she will die. An old artist, named Behrman, who lives in the same building as the girls, braves a storm one night to paint a leaf on the wall — a leaf that will never fall. Cold and wet from painting in t