Assigment #8

The Necklace.

      The moral or the overall message in the story the necklace is that lying only affects you at the end. In this story the author’s idea is to explain how he lied to her about the necklace, he had to work so hard to save the money to buy a new necklace and at the end it was the cheapest thing ever. The message is clear; lying does not take you anywhere. In this case he lied and had to work ten times harder so the lying got him right back.

     The story uses the frustration of and author to explain how lying got him right back. I personally believe it’s true; lying will not make you a better person, will affect your life only and will never take you anywhere. I have a personal experience to prove that the moral of this story is true.

     One time my sister (when she still attend school) told my mom that she needed money for a book she “had lost”, it was about $63 dollars that she actually needed for clothes. My mom knew there was no way she was going to save the money and pay the book so decided to give her the money. My sister and I went to the mall that same weekend and I only had $40 dollars I had saved for a nice shirt, but I seen that she was going to buy shoes. I thought to myself, well she didn’t work with my mom this week and my dad only gives us $25 dollars for the weekend, how come she has money to buy “Vans”? I asked her “Where you get that money?” and she told me that she had lied to my mom and the whole story. I thought it was stupid what she was doing but just ignored it. After a couple of weeks the school year will end and she had two overdue books in the book room; a Spanish one and a History one. She was looking for her books over and over again but never found them. That same week my mom got a call that she was to pay $134 to replace the books! She was so upset and said “But I sent already half of the money with my daughter, right?” and the response pissed her off “Not at all, check with your daughter and let us know when you are going to pay, thank you” and hung up. She had then found out that my sister had lied to her about the money for the book and all this stuff. After everything my sister now had to pay for the books, my mom took her to work with her for about a whole month and only gave her money for the books, nothing for her. My sister felt like lying was a big mistake because if she would’ve gotten paid for the whole month she would’ve had money not only for “Vans” but for a lot more stuff. She then learned her lesson. The same lesson the story “The Necklace” taught us.