Diamond necklace
In the “Diamond necklace” story by Guy de Maupassant, a good lesson can be seen that you should happy with who you are and what you have. Mathilde must be happy a lot because she is beautiful and charming. In contrast, she dissatisfied with what she had and always dreamed of being rich and in high social class. For example, she images that she chatting with “imitate friend, with men famous and sought after, whom all women envy and whose attention they all desire”. Moreover, she didn’t know that she had a good husband, so she was unhappy in her life.
Honesty is extremely important even when the truth is very difficult to admit. When we make mistakes, it is regrettable for us to tell the truth too late and meet the unexpected things. In this story, Mathilde lost the diamond necklace for borrowing from her friend, Madame Forestier after the night ball. Later,her husband advised her to tell lie her friend that the diamond necklace was broke of the clasp and was being mended. After that, both Mathilde and her husband replaced another diamond necklace which is too expensive. For this reason, it is waste time for paying all debts because of the fake diamond necklace. If they confessed immediately to Madame Forestierat first, they won’t suffer a miserable life.
The most important thing is that we shouldn’t judge book by its cover. Mathilde never sastified with her life and wanted to appear rich and high class. During the night ball, she was happy because many people admired her and became successful. For example, all the men looked at her, asked her name, sought to be introduced. Also, many people wished to have pretty liked her because she appeared in an expensive diamond necklace and beautiful dress. However, they cannot realize that the diamond necklace is fake. Therefore, the appearance is deceptive.

The last theme of this story is that you have to pay an expensive price for their greed. You don’t realize that you have some things you love. In addition, your ambition is so high that you will lose the whole life.Mathilde was a beautiful and charming woman and always dreamed of being rich and in high social class, but she didn’t work. At first, she was angry about the invitation of the ball although her husband worked hard to get her it. For instance, she threw the invitation on the table crossly. Although her husband bought her a beautiful dress for his saving money, she felt upset and wanted to wear “a single piece of jewelry”. Clearly, her greed was higher and higher when Madame Forestier lent her jewelries. She is not pleasure to choose a jewelry in the large jewelry at first. For example, Mathilde asks:“Do you have anything else, by chance?”. Finally, she chose the expensive diamond necklace. Consequently, she has suffered a miserable life and worked hard to pay all debts for ten years.

The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog and the Dog Who Though He Was a Cat
The first them of this story is that we should take pride of our appearance. If we worried about our appearance, we won’t have happy life. When the Skiba family saw their defects in the mirror, they felt upset. For example, Marianna was pretty, but she had a tooth missing in front, and she felt that this made her ugly. Later, they wanted to change their appearances, but they didn’t have enough money to do. Like humans, animals have problems when they saw themselves in the mirror. As a result, the cat and dog near killed each other. Jan Skibas realizes the reason why they can see and admire everything, but their appearancesare not. After returning the mirror, the Skibas family was happy. Finally, despite all the defects the girls had found in themselves, they made good marriages.
Beauty is only skin deep. It is realized that the appearance is not important. As likely as this story, the Skibas family was happy at first. Likewise, the animals haven’t seen their images, so the dog thought who was a cat, and the cat thought he was a dog. However, after having the mirror, they could see their defects clearly. Then they just cared about their appearances, but they forgot what they had to do. That day, women of the house became so absorbed in the mirror they didn’t cook supper, didn’t make up the bed and neglected all other household tasks. Also, the cat and the dog confused their images in the mirror and nearly killed each other. Therefore, the real image of a person is in his willingness.
The valuable lesson is that vanity can destroy relationships. When people are poor, they wished to have luxuries. From this point, they have troubles in their lives. For pets in Skibas’ family, the cat Kotand the dogBurek were born at the same time and looked after carefully. For example, Burek and Kot lived on good terms, often ate from the same dish and tried to mimic each other. Obviously, although they didn’t how they looked like, they are happy. After seeing themselves in the mirror