The Importance Of Civil Peace

Wants, needs, desires, however one states it they are similar, yet separated by a thin line. That line is oneself. How one has lived and viewed life can determine where that line is. It's how one sees the world and what they have. The value and how much one treasures it varies from person to person depending on how they live and the emotional and materialistic bond to that object. What one viewed as valuable to them can be nothing to another if there is no emotional or materialistic attachment or need. When Mathilde and Madame Forestier meet after Mahilda gets out of debt, “ They were exactly alike, ‘ And she smiled, full of proud, simple joy” (Maupassant p.380). This was the value to Mathild. She had poured every ounce of her life into paying off that necklace and she was proud of what she accomplished.When Madam Foristire told her, “ Mine was false. It was only worth five hundred francs at most” (Maupassant p.380). In the end all Madame Forestier thought was that the necklace was cheap and worthless, yet to Mahilda not only the necklace …show more content…
In “Civil Peace” by Achebe Jonathan is robbed by prideful robbers looking for their own wealth and treasure and yet they don't value what they have stolen. This is the treasure that they set with their pride and theiving. Jonathan was not that wealthy and yet that money had no money because of the survival of his family. Mahilda in “The Diamond Necklace” by Maupassant had a fair amount of wealth and yet she did not value what she had and wanted more treasure and objects. Her wealth and pride made her not treasure or value what she has and all she did was look at the materialistic things like the necklace she treasured. Her treasure was her materialistic dress and all the things they had to suffer to fulfill her needs. That was her prideful treasure. She had no value of personality until later after she had suffered for her wants and