Prompt on short story After reading "The Necklace" in StudySync, answer the following prompt in a discussion:
In your opinion, when are dreams for a better life beneficial, and when are they harmful?

Consider the potential power that hopes and dreams can have over someone and how these desires might influence them, for better or for worse.

Provide an example to justify your response by using supporting details from the story and/or real life.

basically the story is about a wife who really wants to be rich but is not and her friend is so she goes to a ball and asks her friend to borrow her diamond necklace. she loses the necklace and ends up buying a replacement. it takes her 10 years to pay it off. 10 yrs later she runs into the friend only to find out the replacement was worth 1000s more than the actual necklace

Read this information that associates hemingway with modernism, a literary movement in american literature and answer the question. modern literature emerged during the period that encompassed both world wars, partly as a response to the horrors witnessed by society at the time. many creative thinkers and writers, known as the lost generation, left the united states for europe. hemingway was among them. his writing style consisted of “ … extremely spare, blunt, simple sentences and emotions that play out right on the surface of things. there is an irony to this bluntness, however, as his characters often have hidden agendas, hidden sometimes even from themselves, which serve to guide their actions.” according to this information, which characteristic of modernism is most evident in “hills like white elephants”? characters who hide secret intentions from one another dialog that subtly suggests communication conflicts imagery that highlights the importance of the setting metaphors that reveal significant plot developments