This story book The Last Leave is by O.Henry that is publish by Pelangi. This story talks about a sick girl that give up hope on living and decided to die when the last leave fall. But one of her friend painted a leave on the wall where the real leaf are that help her get through her ill time. The friend did the drawing on a stormy night where he himself fall sick and die.
What i think about this story is how a person can give another person hope is amazing, even if it means to sacrifice yourself. The one that die is an old man where both of them are painter. the old man has wasted his life sitting around and hope that he will get the inspiration for a perfect painting. Sadly it did not happen and he hope that the young girl will not give up so easily and fight on.
From this story I can feel the need to go the extra mile for someone that you care for. Not only that, we should do what we can while we have the energy and capability. To lay around and wait, hoping for miracle to happen does not come to everyone. Even miracle is sometime in our own hand either we hand it to our self or we give it to another person. Like the story the girl was curious how that the last leave did not fall off the vine on the wall as the wind was so strong and was raining heavily. She thinks that is miracle and she fight hard to live on where the actual fact is the drawing of her friend.
How a simple children story book that convey such a impactfull value to the reader. Some time small thing that we do not pay much attention on may turn out to be a big surprise. reading this book takes me an hour but it keeps me thinking for a day. Now I understand from this book that miracle can happen, we are the one who make it happen in the most amazing way.
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