Necklaces: A Narrative Fiction

realizes that she may have forgotten where the house really was, after she got the kids excited

This was their normal family gathering. Angela became very excited about her grandparents coming to visit. She began to clean her room and putting things in place. Angela put Isabelle in the closet because she knew what her grandparents thought about Isabelle. The grandparents stayed in the guest room as usual, which was next to Angela’s room. After waking up the next morning, the grandparents wanted to take Angela to breakfast and then shopping. They quickly realize that their car keys were missing. After searching the house up and down; the keys could not be found. A locksmith had to be called to get keys replaced for the car. Later on that same day, the grandparents took Angela shopping. Upon their return, all of Angela’s toys in her room had been vandalized except for Isabelle who was still in the same spot where she had placed her, the

“SHE’S DEAD AND SHE WILL NEVER COME BACK! NOW SHUT UP!” Allison shouts and runs to her room. “ALLISON!” I shout. “I WISH YOU WERE DEAD INSTEAD OF MOMMY!” Amelia screams with tears running down her face. “Don’t say that sweetie, you don’t mean that,” I say. “YES I DO!” She runs to her

“My precious baby, what happened?” Rudy’s mom questioned. Rudy couldn’t hide anymore so he had to spit it out.

At first glance, Chopin’s Story of an Hour (1894) and de Maupassant’s The Necklace (1884), appear to have very little in common. Chopin’s story, as displayed in its title is quite short; while in comparison, de Maupassant tells a much more detailed account of the beleaguered Loisel’s, who must learn from the self-centred Madam Loisel. With de Maupassant’s depiction of his female protagonist as selfish and ungrateful; it is difficult to fathom Chopin, known for her active role in describing woman's oppression in the nineteenth century. Interestingly, Chopin, a realist, did consider de Maupassant to

The Story of an Hour and The Necklace share many similarities and also many differences; both explore the feeling that both wives harbor towards their husbands and the lack of communication that both wives share. In this essay I will discuss the similarities and differences that the two short stories share with regards to communication.

when she hears of her husband’s death. Although she is not stuck as many women would have

Around the world, values are expressed differently. Some people think that life is about the little things that make them happy. Others feel the opposite way and that expenses are the way to live. In Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace”, he develops a character, Madame Loisel, who illustrates her different style of assessments. Madame Loisel, a beautiful woman, lives in a wonderful home with all the necessary supplies needed to live. However, she is very unhappy with her life. She feels she deserves a much more expensive and materialistic life than what she has. After pitying herself for not being the richest of her friends, she goes out and borrows a beautiful necklace from an ally. But as she

People who are driven by greed end up focusing on what they do not have instead of being grateful for what they do have. This is relevant in the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant because Mathilde Loisel ends up losing everything she owns just because she lets greed drive her decisions and get the best of her. When receiving an invitation to an extravagant ball, she declines because she says she does not have anything nice to wear. In the beginning of the short story she says, “There is nothing more humiliating than looking poor in the middle of a lot of rich women.(Maupassant).” The reader sees how she puts value in possessions and what others think of her. After finding a dress and then borrowing a necklace that she thought

Forestier that she had lost her necklace, rather than replacing it without telling her. In hopes of

Money can definitely equal happiness as seen is “The Necklace”, my personal life, and in the world today.

“She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as if by an accident into a family of clerks” this is what Guy de Maupassant started “The Necklace” off by saying (Maupassant 221). Also, this helps describe the main character and to give the readers a visual of Mathilde Loisel. “The Necklace” is a short story that Mathilde Loisel, the main female character, wants to be a higher class than she really is. Mathilde’s life drastically changes one night after she loses the necklace. Guy de Maupassant incorporates his use of the social class into the short story.

As a team, the goal of this presentation is to reveal to the class, how the Necklace can relate to modern day society. In order to understand and apply the reading to modern day society, we set the event to take place in court as an exaggeration to a situation that can be solved behind closed doors. By questioning the characters in the story, each will slowly reveal how the reading is applied to our everyday lives (such as modern day mentality, christian beliefs, and moral standards between friends).

In today's world what we wear and how we present ourselves can say a lot about who we are and the stories we can tell. Without speaking a word to another person someone could decipher many things about me based on a necklace that I wear. My necklace could reveal many different aspects of who I am. it could reveal that I am close with my family. It could also be determined that I value the sentimental value over the monetary value. As a gift from my grandmother I have many personal attachments to this necklace, it will allow people to think certain things about me, and it can reveal a lot about who I am; but there are also things that it doesn't show.

“Nicole Skylar Cavazos!” Yelled my mom, Heather. I just knew that I was in a heap of trouble with my mom. I had taken my moms beautiful black and silver shimmering necklace, with a sterling silver chain… again. “Where’s my necklace Nicole!” At the moment, I was sitting by my large window on my purple violet chair in my clean room, looking out of the window at the hot and dusty plains covered in dead sandy sad colored grass, and the few little umbrella looking trees with a dark color green wavy tops and rough brown trunks, as furry meerkats, prairie dogs, kangaroo rats, and many other animals scurried about, and admiring the beauty of the necklace shimmering in the sunlight rays. My mom always told me not to touch the necklace in her special, dark brown wooden polished jewelry box, that I had given her for her birthday last year by the way, but I just can’t help myself from taking the necklace. She stomped into my room with her new white sneakers, and started yelling at me some more. “I’m not going to ask you again young lady,where is my necklace!” As I glanced up at her with guilt, she crossed her arms and yelled again, “This is the 4th time this month you have taken my necklace… WHAT DID YOU DO WITH IT YOUNG LADY!” I hated it when she yelled at me, which is often, so this time I looked up and said exclaimed, “ It’s right here.” As I pointed down at my neck, where the necklace hung shining in the suns afternoon bright light. My mom came over and took the necklace off of