Throughout these stories, the characters have significant problems that bring on big choices and consequences in the end. In “The Necklace”, the woman and her husband are not very wealthy. She can't afford a nice dress or jewelry to wear to a fancy party with wealthy people. She borrows a necklace from her friend, but happens to lose it afterwards. Now she is faced with the the choice to confess losing the necklace or to find an excuse covering it up. The story quotes “The necklace was no longer round her neck!”(9). This is important because it sets out the problem for the story line. Now they needed to make a choice with a way to come up with the money. Eventually they decided to replace the necklace with a new one. Working with what little
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The King wants his daughter to be with someone on the same social rank and someone who is wealthy. Once the King finds out about the secret love, the young man, who his daughter deeply loved, was sentenced into the King’s arena. It says, “This love affair moved on happily for many months until one day the king happened to discover its existence.” (6). “The youth was immediately cast into prison, and a day was appointed for his trial in the King’s arena.” This is important because it sets the problem out for the readers and makes us wonder what will happen next. Next the man is faced with two huge choices to make. The man could either choose to open the right or the left door. The princess, whom he loved, tells him to go to the right door. He is faced with the choice of whether or not he should listen to the one he loves or go his own way. “If he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger…” “But if the accused person. opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady…” “Without the slightest hesitation he went to the door on the right and opened it.” (4, 5, and 10). In the end, we aren't informed with how to story ended and what happened to the man. This leaves us as readers to finish the story in our own minds and continuously think about it. The story ends off with, “And so I leave it with all of you: Which came out of the opened door, the lady, or the tiger?” Overall, “The Lady or the Tiger?” sets up with a serious problem and the main character is faced with a random detrimental choice of life or death.
In conclusion, in both stories “The Necklace” and “The Lady or the Tiger?” the main characters are faced with problems that always lead to detrimental consequences in this case. Sometimes we are taught a lesson in the end, or we are left with a rhetorical
The King wants his daughter to be with someone on the same social rank and someone who is wealthy. Once the King finds out about the secret love, the young man, who his daughter deeply loved, was sentenced into the King’s arena. It says, “This love affair moved on happily for many months until one day the king happened to discover its existence.” (6). “The youth was immediately cast into prison, and a day was appointed for his trial in the King’s arena.” This is important because it sets the problem out for the readers and makes us wonder what will happen next. Next the man is faced with two huge choices to make. The man could either choose to open the right or the left door. The princess, whom he loved, tells him to go to the right door. He is faced with the choice of whether or not he should listen to the one he loves or go his own way. “If he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger…” “But if the accused person. opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady…” “Without the slightest hesitation he went to the door on the right and opened it.” (4, 5, and 10). In the end, we aren't informed with how to story ended and what happened to the man. This leaves us as readers to finish the story in our own minds and continuously think about it. The story ends off with, “And so I leave it with all of you: Which came out of the opened door, the lady, or the tiger?” Overall, “The Lady or the Tiger?” sets up with a serious problem and the main character is faced with a random detrimental choice of life or death.
In conclusion, in both stories “The Necklace” and “The Lady or the Tiger?” the main characters are faced with problems that always lead to detrimental consequences in this case. Sometimes we are taught a lesson in the end, or we are left with a rhetorical