Why lie about your identity? If so you want someone else’s fate. That’s what stoner learned the hard way
Saki and O’Henry uses characterization to show that people think you can use someone else’s identity without consequence. But in reality you can’t and it makes their fate your fate if you choose to go on with someone else’s identity

Saki and O’Henry use characterization to show that people can be deceptive about their identity to stay “Safe”
In the book hounds of fate by saki, the author teaches the audience at the end of the book to not use other peoples identity’s because than their fate will fall upon you.
(Page 8) of “A Retrieved Reformation” at the very end of the page it shows how Jimmy used deception of identity and how he dressed up to Ben price and said “Hello ben, you’re here at last are you? Let’s go. I don’t care now.” …show more content…
Ben price works on big cases like Jimmy valentine’s and Ben said “know how Jimmy worked.”( Page 4) this shows that Jimmy has been working at cracking safes for a long time and ben price has been on Jimmy’s case for awhile before Jimmy went to prison. This showed that the author O’Henry uses characterization to show how Jimmy deceives the people he loved to hide his true