“Hey” I yelled in an exited voice “ look what I found!” It was a white necklace, but what were those beads? I picked it up, they were hollow and small, rubbing it around in my hand realizing it was pearls. “ I found a pearl necklace!” These things are worth fortunes. I decided to sell it so I drove myself to a pawn shop. For some reason I don’t know why I wanted to taste them, “they seem fine enough” I said aloud. Swishing then in my mouth noticing how weird they feel but how nice they taste, I took it out of my mouth and set the necklace down. Half an hour later nearly to the shop it started smelling really bad. I pulled over so I could search my car, nothing. “ what is this horrible smell?” While I was looking around the car a cop pulled over. He started to say “Hey you need help?” But stopped dead sentence when he got to my car. He picked up the necklace and smelt it. “ why would you own such a horrid smelling thing?” I snatched it from him and had a sniff for my self. “That’s what smells bad!” I said in relief “but why does it smell so bad?” The officer offered to take me to the shop since my car smelt so bad he about threw up. Turns out it was somehow washed up from a thousand years ago and worth hundreds of millions.
Answer:
I believe the theme of this story is that truth is sometimes better left unsaid[or "truth kills"]. Like in this story, the guy loved this woman and thought she had loved him back. He would have never thought that she would go out and try to deceive him. He would have lived happier, if he thought that she was still faithfully clinging and loving him silently even in death. Yet he was very oblivious and curious to know the truth of why she had died, and that truth eventually killed him.
<span>From the excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, the lines that include the images of the horrors of industrialization are letters A, B and C.</span>
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A. it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.
It shows that the area is painted red and black , the original color was red and it symbolizes the fertility and naturalness of the original civilization until industrialization came in. The black ones represent the massive dirt and grime that the industries emitted.
B. serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
Serpents of smoke means the trail of black smoke emitted from the factories of the industries. The production of these gases indicates that the industries are still producing something regardless of the effect it has on the environment and on the people.
C. black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye.
The black canal represents the waste that the industry is producing and the smell that is stagnant for years as no one will try to clean the polluted water.</span>
