Madame Loisel Mistakes

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Sometimes in life a person has to learn from his or her mistakes and the girl in this story learned from her mistake to always tell the truth and to never try to be someone you are and always be yourself. Madame Loisel learned to always tell the truth and if she would of told the truth shouldn't of had paid way more money than she would have had to pay if she told her friend she lost it, the necklace Madame loisel used was a fake and could of bought it for 500 dollars. When Madame Loisels husband bought her a ticket to the ball, she wasnt happy because she didn't have a dress she could use to the ball and her husband had some money saved up to buy a gun and go hunting with his friends, but then he gave her that money to buy a dress she could use for everything but he still wasn't happy she wanted something else to go with the dress and he had a great idea to ask her friend if she could use a necklace or something. The reason why Madame loisel aged is because she worked for 10 years and it was all because she didn't tell the truth to her friend and she got older because of not telling the truth and for trying to be someone she isn't, her and her husband got poorer than they were to start because they had to pay a lot of money back to the people. When Madame loses friend got the box …show more content…
You don't need to change for people to like you, jut be yourself. Madame Loisel tried to change who she was and she didn't do something good because she ended up paying a lot more money and she could of just payed her friend 500 instead of 34,000. Madame loisels husband gave her things that she wanted, but she wanted even more than she could get because they aren't that wealthy and so her husband had an idea to go to her friend who is rich and madame Loisel didng know that the necklace was fake and she didn't tell the truth so she had to work hard for 10

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