"The Necklace" is a story written by<em> Guy de Maupassant. </em>Having arrived home one evening, Monsieur Loisel immediately told her wife, <em>Madame Loisel</em><em> (Mathilde Loisel)</em><em></em>about an invitation at the palace requested by Georges Ramponneau.
However, this didn't make <em>Madame Loisel </em>happy because all she was thinking was the dress she'd be wearing to the event. She didn't have any dress to wear, thus, she asked his husband the question<em> "And what do you wish me to put on my back?" </em>His husband told her that she could wear the dress she wore at the theater. This even made Madame Loisel cry harder and told her husband to give the invitation to someone else.
There’s no shying away from the fact that religion has been used throughout history to defend awful acts. And so Miss Maudie teaches Scout a vital lesson here: we are defined by the way we treat others, and beliefs – religious or otherwise – can never justify cruel behaviour.
