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Consequences Between The Necklace And The Monkey's Paw
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“Choices have consequences with it.”This quote relates to”The Necklace” and “The Monkey’s Paw” text because it shows how the character had to make choices and consequence with the story. In the story the characterization is how the character acts in the “ The Necklace.”The thesis is characters from “The Necklace”and “The Monkey's Paw “text taught me how the author expresses feeling throughout the story. The next, character trait in each story reveal how Mathilda acts in the story. Mathilda makes a choice to let herself get married throughout the story. “In the text it said she let herself get married”. The consequence in the story that she made was to pay back everyone the money she took from them.

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