THE GIFT OF THE MAGI PLEASE HELP Part 2: Falling Action
In a paragraph of three to five sentences, explain at least two falling action events from your novel or short story and how they relate to the climax.

The climax is when they find out they both sold their most valuable items to buy a gift for each other.

The climax of a story is a literary element.

Explanation:

The climax in The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry is when Jim and Della show each other the gifts they had bought for each other. ... Similarly, Jim by selling his watch is also giving something of his own in order to be able to give Della a Christmas present.

Falling action is just one part of the structure of a story's overall plot. The falling action follows the climax, or the moment of peak tension in the story. ... The opposite of falling action is rising action, which occurs before the climax and in which the story's main conflict unfolds and tension builds.

In a plot diagram of "The Gift of the Magi," the exposition includes the information that Della and Jim are poor, the rising action is Della selling her hair to purchase a watch chain for Jim, the climax is Jim seeing Della's short hair, the falling action is the revelation that Jim sold his watch to purchase combs for her hair

Falling action" gives authors a way to show how characters have changed. "Falling action" is the part of the plot that tells why a character is important.

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