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The necklace can symbolize pride. When you have pride you show off and want to stay high in others thoughts. When Matilda is at the ball and she rejects the jacket due to wanting to be praised in the other ball attendees images. When you lose pride you will try to keep it. But, in reality, you are better off without pride in the first place.
The necklace can also symbolize self-image. Self image makes us do things crazily. When Matilda gains the necklace she has no problem with herself and thinks highly. Once she loses the necklace she is in a sensitive state and works for teen years to try and gain something she was better without. If we forget self-image and its extreme presence we will have no problems with ourselves.

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Internal conflict- Character vs. Self. "I am but a shell of that woman." (Pg.15) Matilda struggles with her pride. First, she is ashamed because of her lack of dress and jewels. Then she is prideful with the jacket after the ball. Finally, at the end, she has nothing.
External conflict- Character vs. Character. "Would you consider 30,000?" "Lowest I can go is 36,000." (Pg.14) In this scene,Pierre is begging the jeweler to lower the price of the identical. The jeweler rejects Pierre and then they gathered money to pay the extremely high price of the jeweler.

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Exposition- In the exposition readers meet young Pierre and Matilda. Because of the french being spoken readers can assume they are in France. Matilda was invited to a ball, but is ashamed due to not having the proper dress or jewels around her neck.
Rising action- Pierre, Matildas husband, tells his wife to ash her friend Jeanne for Jewels. Matilda and Pierre attended the ball and acted like royalty for a night with the perfect dress and necklace.
Climax- Once Pierre and Matilda return home Marie-Clare, their maid, asks about their time at the ball. It was also at this time Matilda realizes she lost the necklace.
Falling Action- Pierre and Matilda searched everywhere for the necklace. They go to a jeweler and find an identical to the missing necklace. They get loans to pay for the "new" necklace. They also gave this new one to Jeanne.
Resolution- For ten years Matilda and Pierre worked off their debt. Years later Matilda meets Jeanne, who does not recognize her, and tells her of her troubles. Jeanne also reveals to Matilda that the necklace was a fake

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In scene one of the short story "The Necklace" it starts off with a flashback. The flashback is about Old Pierre telling us about the time and setting of the story. It is important to know where and when  the story takes place so the reader can better understand and visualize the story. In the flashback it also states that the story will break your heart. This tells the reader that something dramatic  may happen later on in the story and that the characters may encounter a conflict.

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The Necklace is dramatic irony. In the short story The Necklace Matilda loses her friends necklace and replaces it with one that they bought that looks exactly the same. It turns out that the necklace she lost wasn't real and the necklace she bought was real and they end up going in debt. This represents dramatic irony.

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The place of the setting is Paris  France.The time this takes place is in 1875.The environment takes place in a poor part of France, when they go to the ball it takes place at night so it would be dark out, In the story it says that they would be able to hear the necklace if it fell so the noise level would be quiet.

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In the short story, The Necklace, by De Maupassant. He introduces the topic of Greed. He does this through showing the character wants more and more and isn't satisfied with what they have even if it comes to drastic measures. In scene 1 it shows that Matilda isn't satisfied with what she has. "Nothing but faded wallpaper and dilapidated furniture. How it tortures me to live in such squalor." It shows that Matilda just wants more and isn't satisfied. Also in sentence "Flowers?! How humiliating it would be to appear so shabby among the most elegant women of Paris." She wants more even though they are poor.

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Pierre and Matilda are looking for an identical necklace. They stumble across one but it's not very affordable for them. They are able to lower the price a bit and say they'll come back later while they figure out what to do for there money situation.

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Pierre is generous, loyal and selfless.

In the sentence " I have 18,000 Francs that was left to me by my father" shows that hes generous. I say that because he gave her his money just to help her which is an act of generosity.

In the sentence "We have so little money to spare for luxuries. But her sadness was too much to bear" it shows that he's loyal. He got Matilda the gown because she wanted one even though they were poor.

In the sentence "From that moment on, we lived in object poverty" it shows that he's selfless. If he wasn't selfless they wouldn't of ended up in that situation. He put everything out of his way for her, he put her problems first before his.

I chose Steven Universe to represent Pierre because they put all their needs or problems out of the way to satisfy people they care about.