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1、What Inside Us Makes Our Way - A Report on The Road We Take The road we take is written by William Sydney Porter,who is well-known by his pan name o henry.The story,set in America ,tells a Wall Street brokers Dodson,has a dream in his office,which is mainly about three impoverished people robbed a t
2、rain named the theCreekchevalierofindustry and ran away.They have prepared three horses in advance.During their escape,the first man JohnBigDog got shot,he was abandoned consequently.then the other man,BobTidballs horse got shot too. Considering the only left horse cannot carry two person,Dodson kil
3、led Bob.However,when Dodson awoke from his dream,he settledatthemarketprice which willtake his old friend everycent. The road we take is a short but meaningful and satiric story.Among the three robbers ,Dodson is the leader,who comes from New York.They have been working for three years.When they are
4、 escaping from the pursuit,Bob asked Dobson “IcanthelpthinkinhowfunnyitisthatanEasternerlikeyoucancomeouthereandgiveusWesternfellowscardsandspadesinthedesperadobusiness.WhatpartoftheEastwasyoufrom,anyway?”Dobson answered “IwasbornonafarminUlsterCounty.IranawayfromhomewhenIwasseventeen.Itwasanacciden
5、tmycomingWest.Iwaswalkinalongtheroadwithmyclothesinabundle,makinforNewYorkCity.Ihadanideaofgointhereandmakinlotsofmoney.IalwaysfeltlikeIcoulddoit.IcametoaplaceoneeveninwheretheroadforkedandIdidntknowwhichforktotake.Istudiedaboutitforhalfanhour,andthenItooktheleft-hand.ThatnightIrunintothecampofaWild
6、Westshowthatwastravellinamongthelittletowns,andIwentWestwithit.IveoftenwonderedifIwouldnthaveturnedoutdifferentifIdtooktheotherroad.”Itainttheroadswetake,itswhatsinsideofusthatmakesusturnoutthewaywedo.saidBobTidball,cheerfullyphilosophical.This conversation reveals the theme of the story.It is what
7、inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.Especially at the end of the story,O henry use his typical writing method-twist ending ,to turn out that it is just a dream,Dobson is a WallStreetbrokers of the firm Dodson&Decker.God give him the second chance,but as the dream goes,what inside of us
8、 determines our path,he make a decision to make his old friend William broken out.and say the same words “Bolivarcannotcarrydouble” Besides the main theme we can get from the story,it also reveals the ugly side the capitalism,O.Henryfocusesonthepoverty-strickenlifeandspiritualdepressionofcommonpeopl
9、e.Hetakesgreatsympathyonthem,withdissatisfactionwiththegreedinessoftherichandthenoble.and Dobson is one of the typical represent. As we all know,O.Henry,agreatdesigner,isskillfulenoughtodyesomecolorofpinkinatragedy,orkindofsadness incomedy.HisstoriesarehumorousencyclopediaofAmericanlife.And it is on
10、e of the reason why I really obssed with his works .However ,as far as I am concerned,this is the best one among his works.There are two main reasons.As O henry is the master of language,the first reason refers to his accurate but brief scenery and character depiction.For example,he only use two sen
11、tences at the beginning of the story to display the total background ”theCreekchevalierofindustryrolledofftotheground,thusincreasingtheshareofhiscomradesinthelootbyone-sixtheach.Twomilesfromthetanktheengineerwasorderedtostop.”and his linguistic description about Bob make his final fate reasonable.”B
12、obTidballopenedthesack,drewoutdoublehandfulsoftheneatpackagesofcurrencyandtheonesackofgoldandchuckledwiththegleeofachild.”This can be put as an example.The second is his typical writing method,the twist ending.when we read the Dobson killed his company Bob in order to escape from the pursuit,we may
13、think it is how the story ends.But O henry added this sentence “hissaddlewasstrangelyupholstered,andheopenedhiseyesandsawhisfeet,notinstirrups,butrestingquietlyontheedgeofaquartered-oakdesk.Iamtellingyou”Theseunexpectedbutreasonableendings,inmanyconditions,arethemostremarkablepartsinthenovel. To put
14、 it a nutshell,The Road We Take is a remarkable story which reflects the greedy side of capitalism and reveals the truth of life.It is arrangedinthespecificorderwhichexceedreadersnormalexpectationtothearrangementofthe story.Besides that,as I have mentioned above,this is my favorable essay,It remains me that what inside of us makes our way.
