Yann Martel adequately portrays Life of Pi, a story that contains elements of Pi, the main protagonist, and his life in the form of tragedy. After government harassment, Pi's family's journey elsewhere begins; here Pi meets a foreign tiger and their friendship progressively develops. The tone and style of Yann Martel's Life of Pi closely matches Guy de Maupassant's “The Necklace.” “The Necklace” incorporates facets of a tragic story written about a young, middle-class woman who dreams, desperately, of being a rich and beautiful woman. She is invited to a party hosted by her husband's boss, but she immediately refuses because the clothes she was wearing at the time were not worthy of an elegant party. Her husband spends the money he had saved and bought her a dress for the party and she came back saying that she had no jewelery and that the other women had fancy jewellery. She was convinced she was asking her friend to borrow some jewels and over time she had lost them. She and her husband had to find extra jobs just to pay for the lost jewelry. They put the cost of the jewelry on credit cards and had to pay the money off over a period of more than ten years. She went out and bought the jewelry which looked exactly the same as the one she had been loaned. Her friend sees her again ten years later, after the necklace is all paid for, and they talk as she discovers that the jewelry she lost was fake. These two masterpieces share similar qualities in tone and style. In Life of Pi the author manipulates the simple words he uses to make the reader see what difficult things Pi faces not only as a child, but as a boy surviving on his own. . The way he makes us think deeply about a topic, then turns......middle of the paper......towards Pi on his vast journey across the sea. As the end of "The Necklace" neared and she discovered that she had bought a legitimate necklace when she really shouldn't have had it, the reader's heart melts knowing all the trouble and hard work she went through to purchase it. From the moment Pi's entire family is dead to the end when he enters the hospital alone in Mexico, the reader feels heartbroken. These two similarly structured pieces contained a roller coaster of ideas, thoughts and emotions that transformed them into the exceptional pieces they are today. Works Cited Martel, Yann. Life of Pi: A Novel. New York: Harcourt, 2001. Print.Maupassant, Guy de. "The necklace." Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, 4th edition. Edgar V. Roberts. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, 2008. 4-11. Press.