'Decisions Depicted In The Necklace'

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Simone Ekles Once said “I wish I could turn back time, but I can’t. I made a decision because I thought I was invincible, and I’ll pay for it the rest of my life” And Mhariri McFarlane said “Do nothing and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they’re made for you, but you can’t avoid them.” The point of this essay is that one decision you make can be the decision that can change your life. You can run from them but you can’t hide. There are three short stories that go by the meaning of these quotes. The first story is The Necklace. In the Necklace Mathilde Loisel is a woman who is ungrateful of the things she possesses. Her husband tells her that there is a party that he wants her to attend with him. He gives her money to buy a dress. She realizes that she has no beautiful jewelry to match her dress. He says that she …show more content…

In this story the main character Rainsford is on a ship with is hunting buddy Whitney where their mission was supposed to be hunting a leopard. Rainsford falls of the yacht trying to get a better look of why he just heard a gun being fired. Rainsford swims to a nearby island where upper-class people hunt other humans. He runs into Zaroff and Zaroff’s servant Ivan. Zaroff tells Rainsford that he has a choice of hunting other shipwrecked sailors that come ashore or be hunted by Zaroff. This is a hard decision because you don’t know if Zaroff is a good hunter or not. But if he’s not Zaroff sends Ivan with a pack of dogs out for three days to finish the job. If he doesn’t choose to be hunted then you don’t want to hunt other people as they come from off shore onto the island as helpless as he was. To know that he felt and thought the same things that they did. The last thing that would make this a hard decision is that Rainford’s life is at stake and doesn’t know if he will live or die in this situation. Would you rather hunt or be hunted. Rainsford chooses to be hunted, and

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