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The Perfect Gift
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The Perfect Gift is a Christmas Story, written by Melody Ravert. This contains the genre of a short story. It is actually a story of an unsaid and unclaimed love between a salesgirl and one of her customers. The story opens with the girl, namely Christine is seeking a job for the money to buy gifts for the members of her family. Seeing a "help wanted" sign hanging on the inside display window of the large "Funtime Toy Factory," she decides to apply since she had some retail experience working at the bookstore on campus. The manager hired her on the spot, and began her training the next day.
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In the very next day, he met a guy in her shop, who came to buy a radio controlled sports car. But, unfortunately, the stock of that particular toy was finished. Then too, she made it ordered. When she went back to her home, she found her 2 sisters collecting Christmas trees and other equipments to celebrate a merry Christmas. Suddenly, she recalled her past days with their parent. Her father divorced her mother by accusing her as a severe alcoholic. She was alcoholic indeed. And, that's why, she died later.
The Perfect Gift is a story that depicts some emotions created on the day of Christmas. On 25th December, the Christmas day, that particular customer of Christine came to buy the ordered toy.
He was there among the crowd in front of the shop. The man sighed and said that, he was running late as it was. He asked Christine to hold one of those particular toys for him. His expression was very soft and polite. But Christine knew that, holding a good for a customer was to be considered as breaking the norms of the shop owner’s business. But, she agreed to hold it for limited hours. The customer, though promised to come back, did not turn off. And, at the end of the day, Christine bought that toy for that customer as decided to gift it to him if God gives her another opportunity to meet him.
The name of the story, The Perfect Gift is really appropriate for this story. No, the writer did not follow O. Henry. Christine's gift for her lover is not at all compared with the gift of the Magi. But, to her, it is obviously the perfect gift.
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