Short Fiction Stories In Guy De Maupassant's Lottery

Short fiction stories are short stories that are not real. These stories are made up in the minds of the writers of the stories. Each story will have literary devices throughout it to enhance the story. These enhance literature because without them in the story, the reader would not be able to visualize the story and understand it as well as the author would like for the reader to. Strong short stories should have several literary devices throughout them to help the reader completely grasp what the writer is trying to unveil. Dynamic character makes the story in Anton Checkov’s story “The Bear.” The setting is important in Shirley Jackson’s “Lottery” and theme is important in Guy De Maupassant’s “The Necklace”.
Anton Checkov, a Russian physician,

The setting is important for stories because it shows the reader where it takes place and allows them to truly picture where it takes place. Shirley Jackson’s “Lottery” is a short fiction horror story( Masterplots Fourth Edition) about a village that comes together every year in the town square and has a lottery. The lottery decides who gets stoned; as in people throw stones at this person, stoning them to death. Within the first two lines of the story, you can already see where the story takes place, “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 29th.” (Jackson 1) It is very easy to pick out the setting of this story, as it even describes which date it takes place on, June 27. However, according to Masterplots Fourth Edition the location was probably in New Englaand sometime in the 1940’s The day was a clear, sunny, warm summer day with the flowers blossoming and the grass being rich in green. These lines also describe how the story takes place in a square in a village, which is where the town has their “Lottery” (which does not sound like a fun lottery to me). If Shirley Jackson did not give

However, it can be the hardest to realize and figure out what it is, as some stories can make you think about what the theme really is. The theme is what the story is about. In “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, the theme of this story is to never be ashamed of one’s place in society and always tell the truth or it could cost. It certainly cost Mathilde, the main character, and her husband unnecessary stress and money spent. The following quote shows what Madame Forestier says to Mathilde at the end of story, hence showing how not telling the truth could cost you in the long run. “Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs!” (Maupassant 11). If she would have told the truth in the beginning about loosing the necklace, then it would have saved her much unneeded stress and at least 35,500 francs. In society today we see things of this nature all of time. For example, some people want to have what the rich have, like fancy cars. However, what would happen if cars didn’t have emblems to show if they are a Lexus or a Toyota. The same manufacturer makes both brands of vehicles. Think about this though, take the Lexus emblem off of a Lexus SUV and and a Toyota 4runner. Would people still want the Lexus or the 4runner. Odds are people would have to think really hard about which one they would want. They would probably