The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant n 5-7 complete sentences, summarize your Module One short story. Give specific details about the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Your response should address each element of plot.

The Necklace is beautiful story with the message that one may have to pay a heavy price for unrestrained desires and not knowing to live within one's means.

Explanation:

The story is of a lady Loisel who is married to a clerk who loves her a lot. However, the lady is pretentious, likes to wear dear clothes and gems. They have to attend a minister's party and she wants to show off. She borrows a necklace, a precious one, from one of her acquaintances and attends the dance. The necklace is lost.

Though she buys a genuine one and returns it thinking that the one she borrowed was an original piece, she labors hard for long to pay its price. In the end, she comes to know that the one she had borrowed was an imitation and not a genuine one. A plot is a sequence of events in a story. The stages of a plot are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.

Exposition is the part where the author introduces us to the characters in the story. Loisel, her husband who is a clerk and their nature and character. Rising action is when the wife borrows a 'precious' necklace to show off owing to a fault in her character.

Climax is when she loses the necklace and realizes it. Falling action is when she labors hard to pay the price doing all domestic chores herself. Resolution is when she comes to know that the necklace she paid a heavy price for was an imitation.