MODULE 2

• City of Good Character


  DISCIPLINE • GOOD TASTE • EXCELLENCE
• This module is designed to help you achieve the following objectives:
• Sound judgment is necessary for effective decision-making because it helps you look at a situation from different angles.
• When judging the relevance and worth of ideas, soundness of author's reasoning, and the effectiveness of the presentation of a text


  • You should recognize which situations make the biggest impact on the story
  • You should pay attention to character relationships as well as problems and solutions
  • You should try to figure out what the author wants you to learn
• When you understand the importance of judging the relevance and worth of ideas, soundness of author's reasoning, and the effectiveness of the presentation of a text, you will be able to know other important pieces of information
• Other important pieces of information


  • when and why a character begins to change
  • what a character says or does
  • a story's setting
  • impact of story's events to the rest of the story
  • lesson in a story
• The short story "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant takes place in France several hundred years ago.
• Mathilde Loisel


  Lives in a flat with her husband, who works as a clerk for the Minister of Education. Their lives are not luxurious, but they are not poor, merely simple. Mathilde, however, longs to be rich.
• Events in the story

  1. Mathilde's husband brings home an invitation to a ball

  2. Mathilde complains that she has nothing suitable to wear

  3. Mathilde borrows a sparkling diamond necklace from her friend Jeanne Forestier

  4. Mathilde and her husband attend the gala and have a fabulous time

  5. Mathilde realizes the necklace is missing

  6. Mathilde and her husband find another necklace to replace the missing one

  7. Mathilde gives the replacement necklace to Jeanne who does not even look at it

  8. The next ten years Mathilde's life changes dramatically
• Jeanne confesses that the necklace Mathilde borrowed was a fake, made of paste, worth no more than five hundred francs.
• Mathilde's reaction to the invitation to the ball

  Upset
• Mathilde's reaction to needing a dress and jewelry for the ball

  Anxious
• Mathilde's life after the 10 years of paying back the money for the replacement necklace


  Dramatic change, moved to a smaller apartment, had to cook and clean for herself, her husband worked multiple jobs
• Mathilde sees Jeanne Forestier on the street and decides to tell her the truth about the necklace.