The men do their best to sort them, and are horrified at the thought that if they make a mistake their friend will lie forever with some of the black man's bones. Who really owned the sheep-dog? Intermediate Story The Best Thing for a King tells of an aging king who sends his three sons out into the world to bring back the best thing they can find to give to a king
The Diamond Necklace - Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
She thought of long reception halls hung with ancient silk, of the dainty cabinets containing priceless curiosities and of the little coquettish perfumed reception rooms made for chatting at five o'clock with intimate friends, with men famous and sought after, whom all women envy and whose attention they all desire. At last they found on the quay one of those ancient night cabs which, as though they were ashamed to show their shabbiness during the day, are never seen round Paris until after dark
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Among Maupassant's best-known books are Une Vie (A Woman's Life, 1883), about the frustrating existence of a Norman wife and Bel-Ami (1885), which depicts an unscrupulous journalist. Perhaps the lack of interest shown in the novels is due to teachers relying on the short stories because of the limited attention span of their students
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She narrates her life events to her friend only to discover that the diamond necklace she had borrowed and nearly ruined her life to return, was a fake! What melancholic twist in the tale, right? I will give you a few other tips that you can use to write interesting tales with a twist. At the party, Mathilde dazzles! She is admired for her beauty and grace by one and all and it is the one memory she hopes to live her entire life revisiting
SparkNotes: The Necklace: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
Whereas Monsieur Loisel happily looks forward to having hot soup for dinner, Mathilde thinks only of the grandness of other homes and lavish table settings that she does not own. Mathilde effectively relinquishes control of her happiness to objects that she does not even possess, and her obsession with the trappings of the wealthy leads to her perpetual discontent
When Monsieur Loisel brings home the invitation to the Ministerial Mansion, he hopes to bring joy to his pretty wife, but she bemoans the fact that she does not have a dress to wear; then, when he generously offers the money he has been saving for a rifle, Mme. Finally, pride prevents Madame Loisel from confessing the loss of the necklace, and indeed pride in a sense even prevents her from considering that the necklace might not be as valuable as she assumes it is
Short Stories: The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
He threw over her shoulders the garments he had brought for them to go home in, modest everyday clothes, whose poverty clashed with the beauty of the ball-dress. She washed the dirty linen, the shirts and dish-cloths, and hung them out to dry on a string; every morning she took the dustbin down into the street and carried up the water, stopping on each landing to get her breath
Irony is best demonstrated in the fact that she wastes her life to pay for a cheap copy of the original necklace, while she herself is nothing more than a cheap copy. The ironic situation is the source of her joy, the necklace, becomes her downfall when she loses it and has to work the next ten years of her life to replace it
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