The thing is, our dreams can cause ourselves to end up in the wrong direction if we’re not careful with the decisions we make throughout the journey. Decisions do not just affect themselves, it affects the people they surround themselves with. It can make a huge impact on loved ones if we’re not careful because people are avidly determined in their dream that they are willing to do anything. It can lead us to sacrifice the things we love in order to pursue that dream. Della and Jim in The Gift of Magi written by O. Henry and Mathilde Loisel in The Necklace written by Guy de Maupassant set the idea of how many relationships can contain and love. Also, can show the amount of pride these characters have by the sacrifices they make due to their
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Realism is the truth about a person or a situation that can be relatable to someone's life (google dictionary). According to the article ‘Realism’ in Spark Notes, it states, ” In Maupassant, like his mentor, Flaubert, believed that fiction should convey reality with as much accuracy as possible”(P.1). He wanted readers to feel as if they were the characters and wanted them to feel engaged. In the story, the reader can easily sense the realism. For example, it states in The Necklace,” This life lasted ten years. At the end of ten years they had paid everything, everything, with the rates of usury and the accumulations of the compound interest ”(P.97-98). Mathilde had to go through this because she made a wrong decision. This is an example of realism because not only does realism mean fancy, rich people, it also means average people who are lower and in middle class too, average people go through this. Realism in The Necklace not only shows the audience the details of how living, in reality, is like, also the struggle of emotion and suffering with living in the reality, and for the readers to realize the theme of the whole story which is wealth isn’t the way to get happiness and making decisions is very important because it shapes your life and the relationships you have with
Realism is the truth about a person or a situation that can be relatable to someone's life (google dictionary). According to the article ‘Realism’ in Spark Notes, it states, ” In Maupassant, like his mentor, Flaubert, believed that fiction should convey reality with as much accuracy as possible”(P.1). He wanted readers to feel as if they were the characters and wanted them to feel engaged. In the story, the reader can easily sense the realism. For example, it states in The Necklace,” This life lasted ten years. At the end of ten years they had paid everything, everything, with the rates of usury and the accumulations of the compound interest ”(P.97-98). Mathilde had to go through this because she made a wrong decision. This is an example of realism because not only does realism mean fancy, rich people, it also means average people who are lower and in middle class too, average people go through this. Realism in The Necklace not only shows the audience the details of how living, in reality, is like, also the struggle of emotion and suffering with living in the reality, and for the readers to realize the theme of the whole story which is wealth isn’t the way to get happiness and making decisions is very important because it shapes your life and the relationships you have with