1. … Short Novel big

2. Which one deserves publication? Two psychological stories… …two twist endings.

3. Introducing… The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant

4. Meet Loisel, our protagonist: - She’s charming. - She’s pretty. -Elegant, Witty, -Beautiful Graceful and gracious. However, she was poor. “She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks. " This made her vain. jealous, and angry. She felt she deserved better.

5. It’s an omniscient story. The point of view is all knowing. Point of View Setting Estimated 1900’s France, During the time of a depression.

6. The plot: One day, her husband comes home for dinner and anxiously presents her with an invitation to a prestigious dinner. He is eager to do so as he knows she’s unhappy with her current affairs. However, she’s upset at him because she doesn’t have a pretty dress to wear and she’ll look like a fool.

7. Her husband, seeing how upset she is, agrees to buy her a dress for the party, even though it means he won’t have money for himself. However, this doesn’t make her happy either.

8. She’s annoyed that she doesn’t have any jewels to wear to the party. Her husband, also annoyed, suggests she borrows a necklace from her friend. She does so, and it’s the most beautiful necklace she’s seen.

9. At the party, after having a wonderful time, fooling everyone into thinking she was someone of high class, she realizes she has lost the Diamond necklace she had borrowed.

10. They discover the necklace was worth 40,000 francs. The husband then makes loans with various people, signing off the rest of his working life to saving up to repay for the necklace. They worked for 10 years day and night, trying to pay back they money little by little each month. Loisel aged horribly. Ten years later, she sees her friend whom she had borrowed the necklace from. She greets her and her friend does not recognize her because she has aged so poorly. Loisel admits to her crime of losing the diamond necklace and that this why she has lost her beauty because she has worked 10 years straight to pay it back.

11. She tells her the necklace was paste. Worth at most 500 francs. Theme: Over concern about one’s appearance can lead to someone losing all youth, grace and beauty.

12. Secondly.. The Backward Fall by Jason Helmandollar

13. Meet Mom, our protagonist: - She’s sixty-two and only getting older. - She’s a wife of 47 years. - Her husband loves her dearly. However, she’s losing her memory. “ ‘Don't you recognize me? It's me, George.’ She slams the bowl back to the counter, hard enough to crack it. ‘You're not my George. You're an old man. You've got me trapped here. You stole all my money, and now you took my wedding ring.’ “ She’s slowly forgetting who he is or why she’s there.

14. It’s an omniscient story. The point of view is also all knowing. Point of View Setting Present time. In an old couple’s home, North America.

15. The plot: It begins when a husband and wife are at home alone together. Mom, 62, has been married to her husband for 47 years. She’s playing the guitar when she forgets her own song. She calls for him, and asks him the words to her own songs. She’s beginning to lose her memory.

16. At 64, she calls for him again. She asks him to get into the closet, and he is already poised to do what she wants as he is used to her memory loss by now. However, she looks at him with bewilderment and confusion. He’s hurt because she does not recognize him, her own husband.

17. Her memory continues to regress. She walks into rooms and forgets why she went there in the first place. She asks him what she’ll do if she wakes up one day and forgets every-thing. Her husband is supportive and reassures her that she will remember why she went into the room. He lovingly tells her that if she forgets her memory he’ll remind her of everything.

18. Her memory starts to produce delusions. She asks him if he filled up the car, but he only ever drives to the grocery store once a week. She asks about their vacation to the Grand Canyon the next day, but it’s been 15 years since they went. She then wakes in the middle of the night and tells him that Wendell Thurbur kissed her on the lips that day.

19. She lets him know that the boy who kissed her likes her and can treat her better than he has been treating her. He has been neglecting her since her memory has gotten bad. He promises to be better, and realizes as he has been treating her poorly.

20. One day, she begins to get angry of him accusing him of stealing her wedding ring, kidnapping her, and taking all her money. She calls him a dirty old man. She believes she’s 23, but she’s 68. Time progresses and she believes she’s 19. She completely forgets who her husband is and sees him only as a nervous, always crying old man. She begins to ignore him and fantasize about when George (her husband) will propose to her.

21. Her delusions worsen to where she believes her 19 year old husband is coming to rescue her, and that her real husband is just a senile man not aware of what’s going on. She see’s her husband at 19 walking towards her, but no one is there. Her real husband kindly corrects her, knowing it is pointless, but out of love.

22. Finally, one day, she is laying on her death bed, unaware of her surroundings. She doesn’t recognize anyone, but is reassured by his presence. “ Unknown words fall from lips. Tears fall from sad eyes. She breathes in each face and it soothes her. Last is a face that feels familiar. Its shape is familiar – its gritty texture as a cheek presses against her cheek. Familiar lips touch her forehead. She watches this face and realizes that while all information has been stripped away, emotion has remained. Untouched.”