Iman:
Fast food in New York.
New York gastronomy is based on the fast food two key elements of street food are hot dogs and pizza.
You find hot dogs in almost all corners of Manhattan.
The price of a puppy is around 2$.
New York is one of those places where it is very common to see everyone on the street with a large coffee to go, although in summer can be replaced by a smoothie, a great fruit shake with ice.
CHINATOWN;
If you like Asian food in general and China in particular.
TIMES SQUARE;
Times Square is packed with restaurants of most tourist court, Planet Hollywood , Hard Rock Café and many others offer American food with impressionist décor.
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Isabella:
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter by doubleday.jpg
Portrait of O. Henry, by W. M. Vanderweyde, 1909
Born William Sidney Porter
September 11, 1862
Greensboro, North Carolina
Died June 5, 1910 (aged 47)
New York City, New York
Pen name O. Henry, Olivier Henry, Oliver Henry[1]
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.
Biography
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Early
William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862,in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–65). William's parents had married on April 20, 1858. When William was three, his mother died from tuberculosis, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother. As a child, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels; his favorite works were Lane's translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.
Porter graduated from his aunt Evelina Maria Porter's elementary school in 1876. He then enrolled at the Lindsey Street High School. His aunt continued to tutor him until he was fifteen. In 1879, he started working in his uncle's drugstore and in 1881, at the age of nineteen, he was licensed as a pharmacist. At the drugstore, he also showed off his natural artistic talents by sketching the townsfolk.
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Sara:
New Yorkers: TILDY'S MOMENT
Characteristics of characters:
- Mr. Bogle: the owner of the restaurant. He sits at the desk by the door and takes the money. He's an ordinary man, maybe generous, or at least fair with his employees.
- Aileen: one of the waitress. She's tall, beautiful and full of life. She's also good worker, talkative, but self-interested.
- Tildy: the other waitress. She's small, fat, not beautiful. She has a grey life, she seems happy, but deep inside she feels unhappy because no one wants her.
- Mr. Seeders: customer, he's small and thin. He's young maybe a bit insecure. He feels somebody like Aileen would never be interested on him. When he's drunk, he kisses Tildy, but afterwards, he is sorry about it.
- Other men: customers in general, superficial, they like to flatter only beautiful women.
- The Voice: comes from the kitchen. We know nothing about he or she.
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Raquel:
Summary of the story:
Bogle in the restaurant had a beautiful waitress named Aileen, which were men to admire their beauty, had a companion named Tildy, who was dying of envy to see how men adored her.
One day Mr. seeders gave a kiss to Tildy she excited to see a man wanted began to feel a real woman, but the illusion it hard few days since Mr. seeders he returned embarrassed by what I izo drunk, Tildy corrio to take refuge in her friend Aileen.
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