Literature In Short Stories

Literature is often described as books and writings published on a particular subject. A lot of times, these writings are called short stories. Short stories are often brief works of fiction written in prose. In high school freshman English classes, students normally spend a lot of time reading and going over these stories. They include but are not limited to: The Interlopers by Saki, The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. Each of these stories is famous pieces of literature and contain important morals that even hundreds of years later, we should still follow, even though most do not. The Interlopers is a short story about two men each hunting the other down in the woods because of a multi-family

His new assistant tells him that he should apply to the “Red-Headed League”, a group of red-haired men who only do purely nominal services for a high wage of four pounds a week(which was a lot at the time.) He applies and gets the job. For eight weeks straight from 10 am to 2 pm this man copies the Encyclopedia Britannica by hand. All was good until one day, he came into the office only to find a note on the door saying that the Red-Headed League had been “dissolved”. He finds this very suspicious and suspects someone has played a joke on him. Afterwards, he goes to his friend, Sherlock Holmes for help. Holmes eventually finds out that his new assistant at the pawn shop, who was always downstairs, had actually set up the whole thing. In the end, the assistant did this because he was building an underground tunnel to a nearby bank in order to rob its vault and needed his boss out of the office in order for him to execute this plan. In the end, the assistant, who ended up being a wanted criminal(also one way Holmes figured out his plan) and his helpers went to jail. This story shows that no matter how good someone or something may appear, there is always a deeper level and some things are actually too good to be true, contrary to what some may

They go to the party and have so much fun that they dance until 4 am. Every man thinks she is so pretty because of her new dress and gorgeous necklace. Just as she gets home from partying and is about to go to sleep, she realizes the necklace is no longer on her neck. She has lost it. They just tell the friend the clasp broke and they are getting it fixed. They spend a week looking at jewelry to find another to replace it with, but the most similar necklace that they could find was 36,000 francs, way more than they could ever afford. They then spend another week gathering money from all of their banking accounts, savings, etc in order to pay for this necklace. Once it is returned to the friend, she is a bit annoyed at the amount of time the “clasp fixing took” but doesn’t look at the necklace. The husband and wife then live in extreme poverty for ten years and finally pay off all of their debt. Meanwhile, Mathilde had aged horribly and extremely quickly. One day while she is on a walk, she sees her friend and strikes up a conversation. The friend barely even noticed her because of how badly she had aged over the years. She ends up telling her the story of how the necklace was lost and how she spent all her money on it and ended up in poverty. In a striking turn of events, the friend feels horrible because that necklace wasn’t even real. It was just a stage