FREE ESSAY ON THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN ANALYSIS

THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN ANALYSIS

The story The Star, which was written in 1970's, is trying to say that we need to
understand the truth of our fate rather than put on blinders and quit refusing everything
else that we don't want to see. In the story The Necklace written by Guy De Maupassant
the woman worked herself to the bone for ten years trying to pay off the debt used to pay
for the necklace she lost at the ball. The woman in this story is a poor pretty woman who
thought she deserved a better life than one that she already had. The main character in
this story is a woman named Louis, the daughter of simple working class man. Both stories
include a sub theme of a hope for a better life, in which all men were created equal and
all the ugly injustices in the world would cease to exist. But the cold hard fact is that
we humans have this innate sense of optimism, which blocks our thinking for reality,
because without it we would have no reason for living. 
In the case of he woman in the story The necklace the object being the necklace, which
she eventually loses, and try's to replace. Instead of hiding the truth and facing the
music, which was harder, to take than when she lied. The old adage which says, What a
tangled web weave when we first start to deceive. We humans can't handle the truth. We
think we know what is the truth. What that really is just bull*censored*. It's
arrogance-playing tricks on our minds making us think we are in control of our lives. If
we really were in control of our lives then why can't we control every little aspect of
it that gives discomfort? Because we can't, because we don't know how, and eventually the
truth will show that is we don't what the truth really is. Using the slippery slope logic
one can conclude that the two stories are more similar than they are different but
because the assignment at hand requires for me to compare and contrast in an illustrative
manner then I guess I should start. 
In the story the Star the setting is on a rocket ship with astronauts and the setting in
the necklace is old France in the late 1970's. The Star is a science fiction story while
the necklace is an illustrative story. In the necklace the story is told from the third
people point of view compared to the Star's point of view is in the first person. The
necklace discusses the social classes distinction in detail while in the star is
describes the Astrology in detail. The person who wrote the necklace was French was
illustrative the author of the star was clearly American. The main focus of the story is
based on the importance of having money while the star is about the survival of the
fittest.
The similarities in both stories include that both deal with theme of hope. One is more
graphic in the account of survival as portrayed in the star but the details in how the
girl had to work hard in how each detail in her work day was shown through words was
illustrative. Both deal with the issue of false pretense that living a certain life would
bring true happiness, which in both cases should that, it didn't.
The dismal setting Star is in contrast with the grandeur at which the Necklace is played
out. The false hope that we control our own destiny is both misinterpreted by everyone.
That is why these two stories, which are about two different subjects, seem to have the
same effect on a person, which is depression.
Compare and Contrast the Star and The Necklace
Glen Gemeniano
March 7, 2000
Example Illustration
ENG 1A
COLE
M/1:00pm-4:00pm
Bibliography
WH AUDEN, The Unknown Citizen