journal entry 9

Title: The Necklace
genre: fiction
time: past
setting: city (unknown)

The story is about a poor couple that is invited to a ball but instead of being happy about it, the women is very unhappy because she has nothing to wear for the ball. For a lot of money she buys a dress but she's still not happy because she has no juwels to wear. She goes to her rich friend to borrow some juwels. She borrows a beautiful necklace and wears it on the ball but when going home, she looses it. With all the rest of their money and moneylenders, they buy a new one for the lady that borrowed them the necklace. During 10 years, they work very hard to repay all the depts they had.
One morning, she meets the lady where she borrowed the necklace from and they started talking. The poor women explains about the lost necklace and the new one where they have worked for so hard. The rich lady is shocked and then explains that the necklace was only imitation.

I think this is really bad luck for the poor women. They spend all their money on the new necklace and now they found out that its only imitation. They worked for it during 10 years. Hard work that actually was for nothing.