The Necklace

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In the short story, “ The Necklace”, written by Guy de Maupassant

and the poem, “Kindly Unhitch that Star, Buddy” written by Odgen Nash,

both works deal with success. Everyone wants to achieve success in many

ways, but success doesn’t come very easily. In each work the authors use

language and structure to convey ideas about success.

In “The Necklace”, Mathlid Loisel wants to look and be successful

anyway she can. Mathlid Loisel borrows a necklace for one night and loses

it; she is forced to pay for it for the next ten years. During the time she is

paying off the cost of the necklace, Mathlid Loisel becomes old and looks run down looking.

Mathlide Loisel realizes that she had been relativity successful after losing

the necklace. The theme of the necklace is that sometimes you are more

successful than you may think.

In “Kindly Unhitch That Star, Buddy”, the Poet Ogden Nash

describes success in his poem. Nash is telling us that people would

rather be successes than failures. Nash feels that it’s best that we all can’t be

successful because then there wouldn’t be anyone left to despair. In the

poem Nash describes how people have to strive to become successful. The

theme of this poem is that success doesn’t come easily and that you must

work to become successful.

In each work, the authors use language and structure to convey ideas

about success. In the poem, “Kindly Unhitch That Star, Buddy”, there are

many examples of irony. Odgen Nash says in his poem, “ and if all the ones

who say no said yes, and vice versa, such is the fate of humanity that ninety-

nine percent of them still wouldn’t be any better off than they were before.”

He also uses alliteration, assonance and rhyme in his poem. Odgen Nash is

very wise by using language and structure to convey ideas about success.

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