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Compare And Contrast Speak And The Necklace

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How long would you keep a secret for? The two novels our class read are Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. Speak is about a girl, Melinda, who goes to highschool with no friends. She lost all of her friends because she called the cops on a party she went to. The reason Melinda called the cops was because she got rapped by a guy named Andy Evans. On the other hand, The Necklace is about an ungrateful woman, Mathilde, who goes to a formal party. She wants a dress and a jewelry to wear, so she borrows a diamond necklace from Madame Forestier. Unfortunately, Mathilde loses the necklace at the party, so she works hard for ten years to compensate the necklace only to find out that the original was a fake. A close
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