I stood their paralyzed, strangers wanted to make Christmas dinner with us and celebrate the holidays with us. I did not know what to say even though my parents have always taught me to be polite and thoughtful with people. This time, what my parents have taught me could not help me. I stood there for a few seconds and I felt my tongue and mouth incontrollable. “No thank you we don’t like to have people over for Christmas.” I stated. “Oh, we are sorry we ever bothered you this morning.” The family walked away with slumped shoulders, and I still stood there paralyzed. I felt guilty and so I closed the door quietly and I walked into the kitchen and started to pull out a few eggs and many strips of bacon. This was a family tradition to have this kind of breakfast cooked on Christmas Day. However, this made me feel guiltier because that family was poor and probably could not afford this kind of breakfast. After the bacon and eggs were finished cooking on the frying pan I put some eggs and bacon on three plates. Surprisingly, now my father and mother wake up to the smell of the food. “Goo...
The movie Four Christmases has two main characters are Vince Vaughn (Brad) and Reese Witherspoon (Kate). This movie is about an unmarried couple that has no plans of getting married or having children anytime soon. Every Christmas they plan an adventurous vacation for the two of them. They do this to avoid going to all of their families’ houses for the holiday. This year Kate and Brad planned to go to Fiji for vacation, but the weather took a turn for the worst and they weren’t able to go. Due to the weather, their flight got cancelled. The news caught them on live television alerting their families that they were now available for Christmas. Both Brad and Kate’s families are divorced, so there were four families to visit. They plan
the book A Christmas Carol. Dickens wanted the reader to understand the businesses in life. Is to respect others in life the way you want to be treaded. Scrooge was a mean man who was full of money and did not care about others.
In the film, A Christmas Story, directed by Bob Clarke, Ralph Parker tells the story of a noteworthy childhood Christmas. The story takes viewers through Ralphie’s trials and tribulations in the weeks leading up to the holiday. Throughout the film, he narrates over specific events in order to highlight its significance to that Christmas as well as its impact on his childhood and adulthood. An example of a major moment is when Ralphie is assigned a paragraph from his teacher over what he wants for Christmas.
Dickens' Use of Language and Structure to Build Up a Picture of the Joy of Christmas Present
A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and published in 1843. The novel was the first of five in a series of Christmas books that Dickens was commissioned to write. It is thought that several of the darkest episodes in his novels are based on his own personal experiences, for instance when his father spent some months in a debtor’s prison in London.
Do you believe in ghost? I know Scrooge does, Scrooge was an old grumpy banker that only cared about money, who did not care too much about other people. Then one day ghosts came and changed that all. Once the ghosts came they told him how much he was doing wrong and how he used to be when he was younger when he liked christmas. The ghosts taught him a lot of things but most of all they taught him to be caring and courteous to his friends and people he has never met. Scrooge is afraid of his future and his self.
A morality play, not unlike some of the popular plays I have seen. I think we all have seen this familiar theme many times over the years. As we head into the Christmas season, where reflective thinking becomes this very theme. I can compare this play with some of these seasonal plays. The play that comes to my mind immediately is, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966&2000) explains not only the life of the Grinch but the Whos as well. Through the theorists of Karen Horney and Erik Erikson, viewers can learn why the Grinch’s personality is formed. Not only had it formed, but through the years it transformed.
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Truman Capote’s story A Christmas Memory, is about Capote’s childhood memory of a particular holiday season and how he enjoyed that moment in time with a special friend. Capote is illustrated by the main character, Buddy. Buddy and his distant cousin have a bonding friendship and tell of their exploits during that Christmas. They pick out a very special Christmas tree, make each other presents, and make fruitcakes.
It is hard to believe that there is anyone on the planet that hasn't heard of the story "A Christmas Carol". Although it isn't hard to believe that people do not realize that there are differences between movies and novels. In this case, that fits right into that subject. Here are some of the differences between the movie and the novel.
A pill bug is an insect that forms a hard shell around its soft flesh whenever startled or scared. Just like this pill bug, humans guard themselves from anything that hurts them without realizing that they are shutting out the most precious moments of their lives. Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, is a cold man. He finds what he defines as true happiness in the form of money and wealth. At first he only seems to be a machine living in a human form, but as Scrooge's true journey and hardships are revealed, it becomes difficult to blame only Scrooge for his independence. It is inevitable that Scrooge's rudeness and impudent ferocity towards people led to the mistreatment of his dead body, but Scrooge's walls were not built for nothing. As the story progresses, and his true story from start to finish is revealed. There is no one person to blame, for it was the wrong of everyone. As Blaise Pascal once said, “All of humanity's problems stem from a man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
While everyone was scurrying around frantically, we heard a yell from the kitchen. “Mom,” my mother yelled. “What?” my grandmother shouted. “How exactly do I stuff this turkey?” stated my mom. You could sense the amount of frustration and slight panic in her voice. Tensions were already high because my grandmother was known in the family for her amazing stuffed turkey and those expectations were stressing my mother out. My grandmother thoroughly explained the tedious process once again. The look on my mom’s face made it apparent that she did not understand and possibly meant she wanted more than a verbal explanation to help her finish this tedious task successfully. Trying not to draw unwanted attention to her anxiety, my mother tried her best to stuff the turkey the way she had been instructed. She placed the turkey into the preheated oven. After about an hour or so, the aroma of the turkey filled the house and I was blinded by the succulent smell. I could tell that a weight had been lifted off of my mother’s shoulders. We all gathered around to say a prayer and then to eat. As everyone started putting food out, my mom went to the kitchen to take the turkey out. “KLAT!” We all ran to the kitchen to see a freshly stuffed turkey splattered across the
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In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a transformation as a result of his encounters with three ghosts and becomes a kind, happy, and generous man. His greedy, cruel, and grumpy demeanor is replaced seemingly overnight, but he doesn’t just wake up and decide to be nice. It takes three Spirits to change his outlook on life - The Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future. The Ghost of Christmas Past makes Scrooge begin to regret his selfishness, and the Ghost of Christmas Present begins to teach him about others. This second Ghost helps to make him realize that money doesn't buy happiness. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, however, teaches the most profound lesson of all: unless he changes, no one will care if Scrooge dies. Because of the Ghosts, by Christmas morning Ebenezer Scrooge is a completely different person from the man who went to bed on Christmas Eve.