Assignment #8

The book “The Necklace” is about more than a necklace it’s about honesty. This women and her husband didn’t have much money. She expected her life to be different than what it is. She imagined her life with more glamour and better meals than what they have been eating. What she loved is jewelry and clothes but she had none of that, she had nothing at all.

She has a friend but was jealous of her because she had everything she didn’t like going to her house because she was so miserable every time she would go back home. Her husband got her an invitation to go somewhere really nice where she would meet really rich people and he wanted to do something sweet for her. She did not have the reaction he thought she would have she was mad because she had nothing to wear. He gave her the idea that she should ask her friend to borrow some jewelry of some sort.

Her friend had lent her a diamond necklace. She was so happy because she was going to look nice. When she went to the party everything went great she met a lot of people she was so happy and everything went just perfect. After the party they got a cab home, the wife was looking at herself in the mirror and noticed she no longer had the necklace around her neck. Her and her husband look everywhere and could not find it.

Her husband told her to write her friend saying they were getting it mended so it could give them time to look for her necklace. Time had gone by and they started to lose hope they thought they were never going to find it. They went to a lot of diamond stores trying to replace the first diamond necklace. They borrowed money and got the new necklace. Finally as time went by the friend had noticed something was different about her friend then that is when she told her the truth about the necklace and what had happened. They bought the new necklace for thirty-six thousand francs, but her friend said hers’ was an imitation and was only five hundred francs.

The moral of his story is always being truthful no matter what the consequences are. It’s better to admit something then to live your life so miserable things aren’t always going to be bad like you think they are so always tell the truth.