The Diamond Necklace /summary/ The Diamond Necklace tells the story about middle class couple Mr&Mrs

Loisel. The husband is clerk in a Ministry of the Public and one day he obtains an invitation to the grand ball with rich people. The women is always upset about her poverty and embarrassed to go to the ball because of she had not any good dresses and necklace to wear. Her husband, who always tries to make her happy gave his all money dress and advised to lend jewellery from her friend Madame Frosteir. That night Mrs Mathilde Loises was the most beautiful, attractive gorgeous woman which almost everyone wanted to dance with her. Unfortunately, the necklace is lost amd the couple go to great lengths to find it. They eventually gave up and decide to pay for it although as they see the price was too high. The couple take a huge loan and replace the diamond to Mrs Jeanne Foriester. In effect, they live in poverty for several years. After this long years of discomfort Mathilda meets Madame Foriester and told her the truth about the necklace and how she had to suffer for it. She was surprised when she hears the story and feels sorry for her as she tells the necklace was fake. Kino and Jiya are good friends growing up in a small Japanese village. Kino and his family are rice farmers who live high up in the hills. Jiya and his family are fishermen by trade and live below the hills on the beach. One day, while working in the rice fields, Kino and his father notice a great deal of smoke rising from a volcano 20 miles away. Changes in the sky and ocean make the villagers nervous as they watch, trying to protect their families. The sound of a great bell from a palace below warns the villagers of danger and encourages them to come within its wall for safety. Some heed the warning but many stay close to their homes. Jiyas family orders him to flee to the palace for protection. Jiya instead runs up the hills to his friends home. Kino and Jiya watch the commotion in the village below when suddenly the ocean turns angry and a giant tidal wave sweeps up onto the beach, taking houses and people with it. Jiya watches in horror as his family is swept away. Kinos family commits to care for Jiya and raise him as their own. Before fully recovering, the wealthy owner of the palace comes to visit him. He tells Kinos father that he would like to take Jiya as his own son and giv e him an education. Knowing that this is a great opportunity for the grieving Jiya, Kinos father encourages him to visit the palace to see the opportunities that would be his. Jiya obeys and visits the old man. After touring the grounds, he then tells the palace owner that his choice is to stay with Kinos family. The old man is irritated at Jiyas response and tells Jiya he could have everything he needs. Jiya respectfully tells him that he already has a home on the farm. Jiya returns to the hills and grows from a boy to a man. He learns to live with his loss with the kind help of Kinos family. He is eventually drawn back to the ocean where he longs to be a fisherman like his fathers before him. Then facing his greatest fear, Jiya builds a home on the beach for him and his new wife (Kinos kind sister) . Daedalus was a highly respected and talented Athenian artisan descendent from the royal family of Cecrops, the mythical first king of Athens. He was known for his skill as an architect, sculpture, and inventor, and he produced many famous works. Despite his self-confidence, Daedalus once committed a crime of envy against Talus, his nephew and apprentice. Talus, who seemed destined to become as great an artisan as his uncle Daedalus, was inspired one day to invent the saw after having seen the way a snake used its jaws. Daedalus, momentarily stricken with jealousy, threw Talus off of the Acropolis. For this crime, Daedalus was exiled to Crete and placed in the service of King Minos, where he eventually had a son, Icarus, with the beautiful Naucrate, a mistress-slave of the King. Minos called on Daedalus to build the famous Labyrinth in order to imprison the dreaded Minotaur. The Minotaur was a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man. He was the son of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and a bull that Poseidon had sent to Minos as a gift. Minos was shamed by the birth of this horrible creature and resolved to imprison the Minotaur in the Labyrinth where it fed on humans, which were taken as "tribute" by Minos and sacrificed to the Minotaur in memory of his fallen son Androgenos. Theseus, the heroic King of Athens, volunteered himself to be sent to the Minotaur in the hopes of killing the beast and ending the "human tribute" that his city was forced to pay Minos. When Theseus arrived to Crete, Ariadne, Minos's daughter, fell in love with him and wished to help him survive the Minotaur. Daedalus revealed the mystery of the Labyrinth to Ariadne who in turn advised Theseus, thus enabling him to slay the Minotaur and escape from the Labyrinth. When Minos found out what Daedalus had done he was so enraged that he imprisoned Daedalus & Icarus in the Labyrinth themselves. Daedalus conceived to escape from the Labyrinth with Icarus from Crete by constructing wings and then flying to safety. He built the wings from feathers and wax, and before the two set off he warned Icarus not to fly too low lest his wings touch the waves and get wet, and not too high lest the sun melt the wax. But the young Icarus, overwhelmed by the thrill of flying, did not heed his father's warning, and flew too close to the sun whereupon the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea. Daedalus escaped to Sicily and Icarus' body was carried ashore by the current to an island then without a name. Heracles came across the body and recognized it, giving it burial where today there still stands a small rock promontory jutting out into the Aegean Sea, and naming the island and the sea around it after the fallen Icarus.

Isinilang sa Calamba, Laguna noong ika-19 ng Hunyo, 1861. Tinaguriang pinakadakilang anak ng lahing kayumanggi. Siya ay si Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal Alonzo Realonda Y Quintos. Ang kanyang mga magulang ay sina Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado Alejandro at Teodora Alonzo Realonda Quintos. Ricial, dito nagmula ang pangalang Rizal na nangangahuluganag "mula sa bigas o palay" ng luntiang kabukiran. Ito ay alinsunod sa kapasyahan ng Kapitan Heneral Claveria noong ika-27 ng Nobyembre,1849. Si Rizal ay bininyagan noong ika-20 ng Hunyo, 1861 sa Calamba, Laguna. Ang nagbinyag sa kanya ay si Padre Rufino Collantes at si Padre Pedro Casaas ang kanyang naging ninong. Noong 1864, siya'y tatlong taong gulang, tinuruan siya ng kanyang ina ng abakada at nang siya'y siyam na taong gulang na ay pinadala siya sa Bian at nag-aral sa ilalim ni Justiniano Aquino Cruz. Ika-20 ng Enero, 1872 ay pumasok si Rizal sa Ateneo Municipal de Manila dito siya nagtamo ng kanyang pangunahing medalya at notang Sobrasaliente sa lahat ng aklat. Noong ika-14 ng Marso, 1877 tumanggap siya ng katibayang Bachiler en Artes at notang Sobrasaliente kalakip ang pinakamataas na karangalan. Nag-aral siya Filosopia Y Letras sa Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas noong 1878 at Agham sa pagsasaka sa Ateneo. Sa Ateneo din siya ng panggagamot. Ika-5 ng Mayo, 1882. Siya ay nagtungo sa Europa sa gulang na 21 upang magpatuloy ng pag-aaral. Sapagkat hindi siya nasisiyahan sa pagtuturo sa eskwelang pinapasukan. Noong 1884, nagsimula si Rizal sa pag-aaral ng Ingles. Magtatapos ang 1884 at magsisimula ang 1885 nang sinulat ni Rizal ang unang kalahati ng Noli Me Tangere sa Madrid. Ang ikaapat na bahagi sa Paris at isa pang ikaapat na bahagi ay isinulat sa Alemanya. Natapos niya ang Noli Me Tangere noong ika-21 ng Pebrero, 1887. Dalawang libong kopya ang kanyang naipagawa na nagkakahalaga ng tatlong daang piso. Si Maximo Viola ang tumulong sa kanya at nagpahiram ng tatlong daang piso. Ika-3 ng Pebrero, 1888. Siya ay umalis sa Maynila upang magtungo sa Europa dahil umiiwas siya sa pagkagalit ng mga Kastila sa pagkakalathala sa Maynila. Noong 1891 ipinalimbag sa Grante Belhika ang kasunod na aklat ng Noli Me Tangere na El Filibusterismo. Ika-3 ng Hunyo, 1892, itinatag ni Rizal ang La Liga Filipina. isang kapisanan na ang lihim na pakay ay ang pagbabago ng lakad ng pamahalaan ng Pilipinas sa pamamagitan ng mapayapang paraan at di paghihimagsik. Bumalik siya sa Pilipinas nang ika-26 ng Hunyo, 1892. Ika-7 ng Hunyo, 1892, alinsunod sa kautusan ni Kapitan Heneral Despujol, ipinalathala sa Gazette ang mga dahilan sa pagdadakip kay Rizal. Pagkatapos ng walong araw, ika-15 ng buwan na iyon ay ipinatapon si Rizal sa Mindanao. Si Kapitan Heneral Blanco ang nagpatotoo sa mga kakayahan ni Rizal na kailanma'y di siya nakilahok sa mga pag-aalsang nangyari sa Pilipinas at dahil dito, humiling si Rizal na makapaglingkod sa mga pagamutan sa Cuba. Magtatapos ang 1896, hinuli si Rizal sa kinalulunang bapor habang naglalakbay patungong Espanya at pagdating sa Barcelona ay ibinalik sa Paris. Sa Real Fuersa De Santiago ay piniit si Rizal nang siyay dumating sa Maynila. Dito siya hinarap sa hukumang militar at nilitis at nahatulang barilin sa Bagong Bayan. Ika30 ng Disyembre, 1896, binaril si Rizal sa edad na 35. Bago siya lumabas sa Fort Santiago, ibinigay niya ang ilawang kinaroroonan ng kanyang huling akdang pampanitikan kay Trinidad.

A young traveler feos stops for the night with a family that lives in a "notch" next to a mountain. They make friendly conversation, interrupted once by the sound of a wagon carrying other travelers (who pause but do not go inside, continuing on with their journey) and then by the sound of rocks falling from the slope. The father reassures the visitor that rockfalls happen regularly without causing harm, but that the family has a "safe place" to go in the event of a serious collapse. The group carries on with their friendly conversation. The visitor acknowledges that he is young and has no accomplishments of note, but hopes he will have "achieved my destiny" before he dies and then "I shall have built my monument!" The father expresses the wish for a more humble legacy, and the aged grandmother makes a request for her dying day. The outdoor weather corresponds to his mixed emotions. Suddenly, they are alarmed by the sound of a much larger avalanche. They scream in fear of "The Slide!" and bolt outside for their safe place. But they are all caught up in the rockslide and killed, while the house is completely undamaged. Their bodies are swept away and never found. The narrator notes that some who see the house later think there is evidence of a visitor that night, but others disagree - the young man has in fact died without leaving any trace of his life.
Mga Tauhan: Simoun Ang mapagpanggap na mag-aalahas na nakasalaming may kulay Isagani Ang makatang kasintahan ni Paulita Basilio Ang mag-aaral ng medisina at kasintahan ni Juli Kabesang Tales Ang naghahangad ng karapatan sa pagmamay- ari ng lupang sinasaka na inaangkin ng mga prayle Tandang Selo Ama ni Kabesang Tales na nabaril ng kanyang sariling apo Ginoong Pasta Ang tagapayo ng mga prayle sa mga suliraning legal Ben-zayb Ang mamamahayag sa pahayagan Placido Penitente Ang mag-aaral na nawalan ng ganang mag-aral sanhi ng suliraning pampaaralan Padre Camorra Ang mukhang artilyerong pari Padre Fernandez Ang paring Dominikong may malayang paninindigan Padre Florentino Ang amain ni Isagani Don Custodio Ang kilala sa tawag na Buena Tinta Padre Irene Ang kaanib ng mga kabataan sa pagtatatag ng Akademya ng Wikang Kastila Juanito Pelaez Ang mag-aaral na kinagigiliwan ng mga propesor; nabibilang sa kilalang angkang may dugong Kastila Makaraig Ang mayamang mag-aaral na masigasig na nakikipaglaban para sa pagtatatag ng Akademya ng Wikang Kastila ngunit biglang nawala sa oras ng kagipitan. Sandoval Ang kawaning Kastila na sang-ayon o panig sa ipinaglalaban ng mga mag-aaral Donya Victorina Ang mapagpanggap na isang Europea ngunit isa namang Pilipina; tiyahin ni Paulita Paulita Gomez Kasintahan ni Isagani ngunit nagpakasal kay Juanito Pelaez Quiroga Isang mangangalakal na Intsik na nais magkaroon ng konsulado sa Pilipinas Juli Anak ni Kabesang Tales at katipan naman ni Basilio Hermana Bali Naghimok kay Juli upang humingi ng tulong kay Padre Camorra Hermana Penchang Ang mayaman at madasaling babae na pinaglilingkuran ni Juli Ginoong Leeds Ang misteryosong Amerikanong nagtatanghal sa perya Imuthis Ang mahiwagang ulo sa palabas ni G. Leeds

The Ambitious Guest Vocabulary 1. precipice 4. refuge 7. cataract 2. wayfarer 5. pertinacious 3. despondency 6. mien

Noun 3. Parts of the Plot Intro-a loving family placed around their warm fireplace in their small cozy cottage. *It tells about them.

1. precipice-a very steep or overhanging place Something like a heavy footstep was heard without, rushing down the steep side of the mountain, as with long and rapid strides, and taking such a leap, in passing the cottage, as to strike the opposite precipice. them). noun Falling action-when the avalanche is beginning to end. 2. wayfarer-a traveler especially on foot The wayfarer, with no companion but his staff, paused here to exchange a word. noun 3. despondency-feeling/showing extreme discouragement, dejection or depression (loss of courage, hope) His face at first wore the melancholy expression, almost despondency, of one who travels a wild and bleak road. noun 4. refuge-shelter/protection from danger or distress Besides, we have a sure place or refuge hard by, if he should be coming in good earnest. noun 5. pertinacious-persistent, stubborn Again they laughed at the childs pertinacious fancy for a night ramble. adjective 6. mien-air/bearing especially as expression of attitude or personality And here the fathers frame of strength, the mothers subdued and careful mien. noun 7. cataract-to strike, dash; a large waterfall Down came the whole side of the mountain in a cataract of ruin. Resolution-when the story ends and we are told that no one survived; it became a legend Rising action-the guest comes into their home. He opens up a conversation about death and what the family members want to do before they die. Climax-when the family realizes a tragedy is falling upon them. (The mountains attacking