The Necklace Rhetorical Analysis

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A. Text to Self- “The Necklace”
Madame Loisel wants something she doesn’t have, she wants to have a status symbol for the party, Madame Loisel wants the necklace. This has happened to me as well: wanting new shoes, a new phone, a new gaming console, etc. The difference between Madame Loisel’s actions and mine is that personally, I haven’t lost one of my possessions so I never had to work off the money to pay for a replacement. Madame Loisel’s situation is peculiar though since she wanted to have all the extravagant things in life but when she gets even a taste of anything extravagant it appears Madame Loisel doesn’t even know how to handle it. Madame Loisel is very materialistic and greedy but we can also dive into her husband’s actions and how he is very passive to his wife.
B. Text to Text- “How this 28-year-old accountant paid off his 73k student loan debt in less than 4 years” to “The Necklace” …show more content…
Logan paid between $1796 to $2,296 towards his loan debt every month in a pursuit of being debt free. Logan even took up an automatic repayment plan to decrease his interest rate by .25%. Madame Loisel used loans and life insurance payments to pay off the necklace and she works towards paying off a materialistic object. The difference between Loisel and Logan is that Logan gained the debt in pursuit of education and to make more money, but meanwhile, Madame Loisel gained debt from faking having money and it caused her to gain an education of work and
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