Comparing Stories 'The Necklace And Civil Peace'

What’s really the difference between want and need? Do you really need that $700 iphone, just because other people have it or you want to fit in. When you want more than you need tragedy ensues. Some people want more than they need, others are okay with just what they have. I am going to tell you about both kinds of those people from stories we have read in class and they are “The Golden Touch”, “The Necklace”, and “Civil Peace”
In the story “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe, he was happy with what he had. He finds money, returns the money and then he gets a reward of money for returning the money. Thieves then come to his house and try to take his money at first, he won't give it to the thieves. They keep badgering him because he realizes money's just paper. The next morning their lives go back to how it was before the money. This man was happy with the basics, but some people wanted everything and more, here are some examples of those people.
In the story “The Golden Touch” by Nathaniel Hawthorne he wanted everything to be gold, he loves gold. King Midas wanted everything gold and one day he got it. He ran into a man who …show more content…
The lady in the story thought she deserved more than she had. Her husband got her a ticket to a fancy ball, she said she didn't want to go at first, then her husband told her he would find some money and give it to her, so she can find the perfect dress. She finds the dress, but wants a necklace so she asks her friend if she can borrow the “diamond” necklace, she agrees. So, she comes home and realised the necklace is gone. She freaks out and goes to find it. She can’t find it, but she doesn’t tell her friend that she lost her “diamond necklace, so she saves up money, moves into her house's attic, sells her house out and buys her friend a new diamond necklace but her friend tells her the necklace was fake , so she went into debt for 10 years for