A Christmas Story

A Christmas Carol Lead/Hook: “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?” (Stave 1) Quick Summary: Charles Dickens didn’t have a pleasant life as a child because his father was imprisoned and he had to work instead of going to school so his family had enough money to survive.…

yourself to be good? How much is related to the environment that surrounds you? An example of refinding goodness is the story of the Grinch. He started off as a good “person,” later changed when he had had enough of the teasing just because of how he looked, and later managed to rediscover the good he had in him from the beginning. This is his story. In the beginning of the Grinch’s story, he starts off by falling from the sky into the hands of complete strangers. Already you can tell that…

me how Scrooge showed disgust to the Christmas season in two words. He uses this quote throughout the story when someone was talking to him. Q2 “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!” From Page 2 This stands out to me how Scrooge is so mean about Christmas that if he had the power he would destroy Christmas entirely…

Dickens, A Christmas Carol where charity beggars were asking scrooge if he would like to give money to charity and scrooge responded with the quote. Scrooge who is the main character works at a counting house and he is an older man. Scrooge has a clerk named Bob Cratchit who is a poor family man. Scrooge gets visited by three different ghosts or spirits during the story. The three spirits include the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas future,…

called it as she saw it. “Look, Charlie, let’s face it,” she barked in “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” “We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It’s run by a big eastern syndicate, you know.” Christmas, an important and happy holiday, now used mostly to gain large amounts of money. Retail businesses make it readily apparent that Christmas has become too commercialized when stores start putting out Christmas decorations in October. Retailers are more concerned with ensuring that…

The “Christmas Carol” is very-well known around the world. Both the movie and book is loved by most people, but they have many differences. All families with children usually watch it, or read it around the christmas season. Yes, some people think it’s dumb, but it shows a lot of potential to what Christmas is truely about.It’s not about spending money, or who has the most Christmas lights and decorations up, it’s about a special time of year when god had showed his great love for us. It’s a…

Christmas, what it really means and existence. Everyone has their own beliefs or ways of celebrating it.Often things change from time to time. Maybe in other words generations after generations. I would say that is mostly with traditions. Christmas is supposed to have all these meanings but the question still remains. What is it about, where did it come from, how is it and was it celebrated. What does a tree have to do with anything? Why do people go house to house in the cold? Better yet, Who…

Oakland, California she received her BA and MS degree in English. “In order for Tan to find her ethnic and her voice she started to write fiction books”. Fish Cheeks is a story that Tan wrote about the time when her parents (not knowing that she was in love with the minister son) invited the minister family for Chinese Christmas Eve. She worried a lot because she didn’t know what Robert will think about her Chinese culture. When having dinner Tan was in silence feeling shame about her family and…

Christmas is a Christian celebration of the birth of Christ, though it also encompasses Greek, Roman and pagan traditions of giving gifts and feasting around the Winter Solstice. It is a time when families and friends come together to share food and exchange gifts (web). In How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the main characters, the Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge, are similar to each other in many ways such as their awful personality. The Grinch is…

American cultures. This final lab also allowed me to analyze how I will use my Spanish and knowledge in the future, to further my career and successes in life. In El Salvador, Christmas, the independence of El Salvador, and La Semana Santa are holidays/ celebrations that are important to the Salvadorian culture. Christmas in El Salvador is celebrated with fireworks, a feast of food, family, and lots of dancing. The day of independence is celebrated with marching bands, cheerleaders, and with…