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Home Reading Report I.

Title of the Story The Diamond Necklace A diamond necklace that Mathilde Loisel Borrowed from Madame Forestier. It is a super diamond necklace, Mathilde life was change, she work harder because of the diamond necklace.

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Author of the Story Guy de Mauant Guy de Mauant is a French author of the naturalistic school who is generally considered the greatest French short story writer. He was probably born in Normandy of an old French family. His experience among the Norman peasants, as a soldier in the Franco Prussian War, and a civil service officer for the government were in corporate in a total of more than thirty volumes, short stories, novels, plays, and travel sketchers. Guy De Mauant came to believe that man is a victim of his heredity and environment. His pessimistic attitude is evident in many of his most famous stories such as “The White Wolf” and “La Me’re Saurage”.

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Characters 1. Mathilde Loisel She is the girl who borrowed the necklace to Madame Forestier and who lost the diamond necklace. She also pretty and charming. 2. Mr. Loisel He is a good husband to Mathilde Loisel, Mr. Loisel is patient, caring, lovable, and understanding. 3. Madame Forestier A friend of Mathilde Loisel and she is beautiful and also charming.

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Settings The night of the ball and palace of the Ministry on Monday evening, January

18th. V.

Conflict When Mathilde Loisel lost the diamond necklace that she borrowed from Madame Forestier.

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Resolution His husband and Mathilde Loisel was working harder to return the diamond necklace that Mathilde borrowed from Madame Forestier and the success of working and they replace the necklace form Madame Forestier.

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Summary There was a girl who is rich, pretty and charming. She married to a little clerk of the ministry of Public Instruction. Until they invited to go at the minister of Public Instruction Ball. But Mathilde was not happy to attend because she had no gown to wear, his husband gave him a money to buy a gown, but Mathilde doesn’t have a jewelry to use, she go to her friend Madame Forestier to borrow a necklace then Madame Forestier borrowed Mathilde a diamond necklace. The night of the ball arrived. Mathilde was a great success she was prettier than any other woman present. His husband had been sleeping since midnight in a little deserted anteroom. When they reached the street they could not find a carriage. When she go home, she suddenly uttered and cry, because she no longer had the necklace around her neck. She tells to his husband that she lost the diamond necklace. His husband returned to the party that was Mathilde lost the necklace but he was found nothing. The next day the couple goes to the jewelry shop and they see a similar necklace. Mathilde and his husband were working harder because of the diamond necklace that Mathilde lost. At the end of ten years, they had paid everything, Mathilde Loisel life was changed because of the diamond necklace that she lost. She suddenly perceived woman who was leading a child. It was Madame Foreister did not recognized Mathilde Loisel because her look was changed then Mathilde Loisel tell her about the necklace that she had lost but she brought her back another exactly like it. Madame Forestier said to Mathilde that her necklace was a paste and it worth at most only five hundred francs.

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Moral Lessons Be contented on what you have and be careful on what you have been borrowed and face all the trials in your life, and also don’t easily trust the people around you.

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Vocabulary Words 1. Ingenuity – skill or cleverness in discovering, inventing or planning. Ex. Her ingenuity in cooking can bring her to success. 2. Cease – to come or bring to an end. Ex. I want to cease the war. 3. Tortured – to cause great suffering. Ex. She tortured the pig. 4. Dainty – delicacy

Ex. I have a dainty dinner 5. Triumphant – celebrating victory. Ex. An accident happen when we are triumpanting. 6. Queer – oddly unlike the usual or normal. Ex. That was a queer house. 7. Intoxicated – to make wildly excited. Ex. She is intoxicated to go to the party. 8. Thunderstruck – stunned as if struckly or thunderbolt. Ex. I’m scared when there is thunderstruck. 9. Odious – causing hatred or strong dislike. Ex. She’s stole her book that’s why she felt odious. 10. Hierarchy – any system of persons or things ranked one above another. Ex. The logical structure of a document is defined visually, typically through a hierarchy of headings.

Home Reading Report Submitted by: DIANA MANGISEL

Submitted to: MRS. JEANNIE BOSE