Let’s look back at the story “A Retrieved Reformation” by O. Henry (lesson 1.04). Summarize the plot structure of the story. What do you think is the theme of the story? What is the climax? How does the plot structure help you determine the theme?

Annabel's niece, Agatha, gets locked into the new safe at the bank. his true identity while Annabel's family and Ben Price all watch. Jimmy Valentine proves that even a cold-hearted criminal can change, but in the end, one's past always catches up with them. Jimmy is released from prison after being caught robbing banks and starts robbing again within the first week.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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