The Necklace Comparison

In “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, Maya Angelou uses her personal experiences growing up as an African American female to present her primary claim that even in trying times there is something to be grateful for. Angelou’s secondary claims are mainly comprised of stories from her upbringing as well as the description of her grandmother’s attitude even though they are living through times of extreme poverty. In Each of the stories she speaks of one circumstance that seems completely unbearable but yet ends with some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. This structure can also be seen in her description of her grandmother’s outlook on life. By formatting her essay in this way, Angelou is able to develop pathos as well as ethos with the audience.

In the Story Civil peace, The Necklace and The Thrill of the Chase. They had many wants and needs. Some of their wants costed them a lot of worked and proved that the things you want are not always worth your time. Although many people have a lot of wants needs are necessary to survive. Shown in these three reading Civil Peace, the necklace and the thrill of the chase.

The necklace serves as a symbol for greed. When Mathilda Loisel loses the necklace that she believed was worth forty thousand francs, she desperately retraces her steps and gets her husband to help her find it as well. It ends up taking ten years to pay off the debt. The ten years were hard on Mathilda Loisel and her husband, and Maupassant told the reader that she “looked old now… with hair half combed, with skirts award, and reddened hands” (6). However, even after the long ten years of manual labor all because she lost the necklace, she “sat down near the window and though of that evening at the ball so long ago, when she has been so beautiful and so admired” (6). The necklace symbolizes that when greed controls emotions and decisions, it never leads to good results.

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

‘The Necklace’ is a morality tale written by Guy de Maupassant where he portrays the life of a beautiful but dissatisfied girl named Mathilde who desires to live a luxurious life despite being born into a clerk’s family and marrying a clerk too. Mathilde’s discontentment in life instigates her to pretend someone rich that she is not. Moreover, it leads her to severe trouble that caused ten years of hardship to Mathilde and her husband. So, this suffering is a punishment for Mathilde which taught her a lesson and changed her dramatically over the course of the story by making her a person of completely different personality for whom appearances

In "The Necklace" the authors choice of words, or diction, is very well articulated. I enjoyed this story because the narrator, Guy de Maupassant sets us so much suspense with the tone of the story. Madame Louisel essentailly loses a valuable item, or so she thought, and goes to major extents and even life-deminishing problems to just make it seem like she was not responsible enough to take care of a necklace for a night.

In Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, she recounts her early years as a young girl growing up in Stamps, Arkansas who faces displacement, trauma, and prejudice. It is through her character and artistic expression that she is able to overcome the trauma of her childhood and evolve into the distinguished and

I learned from this story that often even when the truth is hard to admit, it is often the best policy to follow. In addition, I learned that often people will do a lot of things before admitting the truth, even if it means risking their livelihood. I found The Necklace to be more meaningful because it was easier to understand, and its mode—realism— made it more applicable to life. It made it more relatable and pleasurable because it was easy to comprehend without reading more into the context of what the narrator was trying to translate. I also found it more relatable because often the truth is a hard thing to face in life, but usually if we face it from the start it can make our lives easier.

The Necklace, a short story written by Guy de Maupassant, is about a greedy woman in poverty, who learns that being selfish can hurt her and others around her. Her greedy behavior indicates that she has been struggling during her years in poverty. When she scrambled to find out her purpose in life, she portrayed anger and malevolence towards others.

On August 31, 1997, The beautiful Princess Diana died from a tragic car accident in Paris, France. The loss was devastating to many around the world and millions of flowers were laid before Buckingham Palace. Her life had changed how royalty was viewed and how media and paparazzi worked, especially in the UK, and that change only sped up after the accident. And just like how society went through a change after Princess Diana's death, Mme. Mathilde Loisel of Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace underwent the change after the death of her current lifestyle. Mme. Loisel had lost a borrowed necklace that had been lent to her for a ball. She and her husband were able to replace it without the owner finding out, but it cost them 10 years of poverty and labor to do so. Mme. Loisel had lost everything, and she came to appreciate what she had, because she didn't have it forever.

How do you feel you would deal with a common problem, such as poverty? Well in the stories “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi” two women, named Mathilde and Della, deal with “poverty” in very different ways, but end up facing some of the same challenges. Madame Mathilde is a greedy housewife who wishes to be bathed in diamonds while Della just wishes for her husband to be happy and as grateful for her as she is for him. However both Della and Mathilde end up feeling foolish because of the end result of Mathilde working 10 years drowning in debt when they didn't need too and Della sold her prize possession to buy something for her husband's prize possession when did the same thing.

Have you ever said anything to anyone that made them think you were ever sad or angry , in the stories “the bet” and “The necklace” their characters used dialogue to show their traits or how they act. In The Necklace two of their characters displayed many character traits such as spoiled , bossy , selfish ,ungrateful , loving , etc . in The Bet two of their characters showed the readers, many other character traits such as hateful , cruel , uncaring , brave , etc. Dialogue in “the necklace” and “the bet” both reveal the way that their behaviors demonstrate character traits. Starting off “the necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant (1884) used Madame Mathilde Loisel And Monsieur Loisel dialogue to reveal their character traits .

Although this two stories deal with women wishing their lives were different, there are large differences between them. The woman in "The Necklace" is ungrateful. She puts others like her husband out so that she can have what she thinks will make her happy. In my opinion, I don't even think she learns her lesson about how unimportant having expensive things is. Even after her husband slaves to pay back the money, when he didn't even want her to get the necklace in the first place; she seems ungrateful for his efforts. On the other hand, Miss Brill does no harm to anyone. It's as if it keeps her sane to lead this imaginary life once a week. To some people, taking a break from life and stepping back is necessary. Miss Brill does just that and results in no harm of other but most importantly, happiness for herself.

In the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the main character trait Mme Loisel is ungrateful and charming. The first character trait Mme Loisel demonstrates is ungrateful. This character trait is apparent when Mme Loisel gets the invitation for the party from her husband. Instead of being happy about receiving it, she is snobbish about it. “What good is that to me?”(29).

One, noticeable part that plays a huge part in the theme is irony and/or suspense. In “The Necklace” the readers are suspenseful of if Mathilde will come out and tell the truth or try to cover up her steps. Mathilde hurries to find the diamond necklace that she has lost, and to find someone willing to work with her payment plan. Throughout this short story Mathilde faces hard tasks of work to receive the money until she can pay it off. Also, It was very suspenseful when overtime we watched Mathilde try to conquer her external conflict. Suspenseful was a feeling that took over most readers because most of them were worried that Mathilde’s friend was going to find out about to lost of the necklace. Also, Ironically the necklace was fake causing all of Mathilde’s hard work to be useless. Overall, this taught Mathilde a lesson.