Avarice By Yusef Komunyakaa

Having what you want and what you need is difficult to balance, especially when you want more and forget about needs, and then there becomes a problem. We always want things in life that we cannot have and need things in life that we often forget about. Life is not always fair, and you get what life dishes out for you. Some receive more out of life, while others do not get as much and this is when people forget what is really needed. The decision of what you want versus need is very hard, because you do not realize what you have, or what you need until you lose it and have to work extra hard to regain what you had. So, in other words, there is no decision unless you choose before it’s too late, which is a rare case. No one wants it to happen this way in life, but it does, and you have to make up for everything.

In The Golden touch by
This story shows how things affect you life when you have an imbalance between a want and need. ”She gazed at her little brother’s june bugs pinned to a sheet of cork, assaying their glimmer, till she buried them beneath a fig tree’s wide, green skirt”( Komunyakaa, 433). When you lose the ability to see what you need and want you often become jealous of what others want and in the girl’s case in Avarice she became jealous and took someone else's things so that she could have them instead. Seeing someone else have more than you gives you a need to want and want, which is not good. Or like in the story of The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant Lady Mademoiselle. “ All these things that other women of her class would not even have noticed, tormented her and made her angry.”( Maupassant, 374). Mademoiselle wanted more and lost what she wanted in life and became jealous and did everything in her power to become one of the high class ladies, even though it costed her hard labor the rest of her