Elie Weisel’s father gave his son his rations for a long time to keep the boy from being hungry in NIGHT. Romeo and Juliet also went to great lengths to be together and show each other love. Your question is how can this story be related to other stories? Well, for one, any story of great love and sacrifice is easily related to this one. Ironically, the gifts are useless to each other now, but they are a symbol of how much they love one another and to what lengths each would go to make the other happy. Jim sells his watch to buy her a lovely comb for her hair. Delia sells her hair to buy Jim a watch chain for his watch. They ultimate sacrifice they take is to sell the items most dear to them in order to buy the gifts each thinks the other deserves. The two items they have of which they are most proud are Jim’s heirloom watch, and Delia’s long, lustrous, beautiful hair. Delia and Jim are dealing with hard times, and neither has any money to celebrate their love for each other at Christmas. The story of “The Gift of the Magi” is one of unrelenting love and sacrifice.
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