Guy de Maupassant

Spending an evening drooling over jewelry is one of the best ways the staff at Fashion 360 Magazine like to spend their night, and that is exactly what our Style Editor, IK did this past December 15th. She got the chance to attend the launch of Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin’s jewelry collection for HSN at TOWN Residential in NYC. This event, hosted by Avenue magazine, showcased everything Consuelo has been working on for the past year. This exclusive collection, inspired by five generations of the…

Loisel wanted to wealthy like the people of the higher class. Because of the social norms of society, she follows those norms to stand out in society. Maupassant uses characterization to show how society is influenced by the social norms of society, causing them to lose the agency and to be blinded by wealth. In the story The Necklace by Maupassant, the author uses characterization in order to develop the central idea that society is blinded by wealth. Loisel was born into a family of clerks.…

It is the biggest mistake writers can make. If you don't know the value of your words and how economy makes them more important, then you are doomed to drag your work along in strings of unnecessary words which kill the story. Perhaps the single greatest tragedy is the word THAT. If you can rewrite a sentence without the word THAT, it shouldn't be there. Example, "The girl thought that she would die." Why is the THAT there? whenever I work on a manuscript, the first cursory search I do is for…

In the short story “The Necklace” the necklace plays a major symbolic role. The Necklace symbolizes high social status and wealth. When Mathilde gets invited to the party she insists on looking wealthy. “No; theres nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich”(881). She needs an accessory that makes her look rich so she can fit in with the other women. The necklace she borrows from Madame Forestier symbolizes her aspirations of being in the higher place in society.…

a nice dress to attend. Mathilde thought about the four hundred francs her husband was saving for a gun. “He had a grown little pale, because he was laying aside just that amount to buy a gun and treat himself to a little shooting next summer” (Maupassant 347). The husband felt sad for Mathilde because she didn’t have anything nice to wear. The husband had other options without spending a lot of money he suggested that she should wear decorations around her dress or a less affordable dress.…

The story "The Necklace" was talking about how a women named Mathilde that was so selfish she wanted more then what she had. The story was she was a middle class and that she wasn't rich like her friends. She had kept crying to her husband about how she don't have jewelry and pretty dresses to wear. One day she had got invited to a party and she didn't have a pretty dress to wear she went to her husband and told him about the party and how she don't go a dress, so he gave her 400 acres for a…

Summary “Fortress Mamet,” is an excerpt that is about a writer named, David Mamet which gives multiple examples of his antics and habits. The excerpt states,” Mamet quite literally shows the triumph of thought over terror. It's something that he clearly works hard at in his own life.” This statement gives an example to my past statement about showing his habits and actions. First the excerpt introduces his thought process about writing and how to him it was “mental vomit”. “Writing has always…

I have decided to start making feather earrings to sell, specifically peacock-feather earrings. I believe that I could turn a profit with these earrings, marketing to festival goers in California off of Etsy. My adventure started by looking up how to make feather earrings, finding a simple tutorial off of WikiHow. I then ventured to Michael’s craft store to do some price research. It appears that I’m going to need the following: 1. Pliers (to crimp the crimp beads)-already own 2. French…

Well if you are really interested in reading a ‘Christmas’ story that does not involve Santa or are fed up of the usual, boring conventional Christmas tales, then The Gift of the Magi is the perfect pick! It is a story that reinforces the value of selfless giving. Written by O. Henry, an American short story writer born under the name William Sydney Porter, the plot is really absorbing, and is complimented with details throughout which keeps the reader involved till the very last word. This…

PART ONE: POETIC DEVICES & FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Metaphor 1:Her mind is Tiffany-twisted During the second verse, Don Henley sings the line “Her mind is Tiffany-twisted”. This is a metaphor as The Eagles are comparing this girls mind to Tiffany Jewelry Store without using like or as. They compare the girl's mind to the jewellery store because the narrator notes that this girl is pretty, rich and likes to be glamorous. These specified characteristic are also seen in Tiffany & Co’s jewellery and…