Carol Ann Duffy

There a couple of key aspects you should keep in mind when reading fiction to interpret the full meaning of the work. One of these elements is the internal and external journeys that are present in most stories. An external journey is something a character does that can be observed, such as a boy throws a tantrum when he gets mad, and an internal journey is what a person thinks and feels inside that is difficult to notice just by looking at the person, such as a teenager who is bitter over the…

LITERARY ANALYSIS O. Henry’s short story “The gift of the Magi” takes us on a journey through a few days of the life of a poor young couple. The setting here is Christmas in the 1905 while the conflict is in buying gifts for each other. O. Henry exposes the emotions pertaining to the whole ideal of gift giving at Christmas with the help of these two in love. The abstract emotion of love is elevated in the story through the pain inflicted in sacrifice. The sacrifices the two of them make for each…

Throughout the world, many families get together and create traditions for Christmas. Each family I know goes about the same traditions, but they add their own spin to them to make it their own. As the year progress and gets closer to Christmas, my family gets anxious waiting for the perfect time to begin our annual traditions. When the time finally arrives, my family and I do the same thing every year. For our family traditions, we decorate the tree together, we make holiday cookies, and we…

We are reading the book the Christmas carol for school.The theme for stave one was greed. This is about a man named Scrooge owns a counting company. He enjoys counting his money with his Time. he is a very greedy man when the people came asking for a donation for the poor Scrooge said “is there is not prisons or poor homes”. this shows his greed , but later that night his old partner marley's ghost came. He was trying to tell him that he is greedy and should help others. he was told that one…

During the book The Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens presented us with many themes throughout the novel. I decided to incorporate the central themes Fate, History and Sacrifice, because those select themes stood out the most to me during this novel. I chose sacrifice as a theme due to the fact that Dickens presented it to us as a necessity to achieve happiness. During the novel the revolutionaries prove that a new french republic can come about with only a heavy and terrible cost and emotion…

century. One of his most famous writings is “A Christmas Carol”, this was about a mysterious old man named Ebenezer Scrooge. Over the years his writing got more and more popular. It got turned into novels, stories, graphics, and movies. “A Christmas Carol” and “Christmas Carol 2009” is different and alike in many ways. One way they are different by “A Christmas Carol” is a passage that he wrote, and it is the original thing, “Christmas Carol 2009” is a movie that was made and it is animated.…

In the movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Grinch is a creature who plans to steal Christmas away from Whoville. The Grinch wants to take the presents, trees, decorations, and tradition away from the town. This then creates conflict throughout the town and Cindy Lou comes into the story and tries to save the Christmas tradition in Whoville. In the beginning of the story, you can see flashbacks and get background information of events from the Grinch’s childhood. He was constantly…

Who has not heard the song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”? The song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is a popular and joyful song wrote in 1963, this song represents Christmas, “The most wonderful time of the year”. Now day this song is a traditional song, heard in Christmas. The use of poetic device impacts the song makes you imagine every word Andy Williams it’s singing. Onomatopoeia, imagery, and repetition are some of the poetic devices that are used on this…

At first, Scrooge is a big grump. He acts as if the world doesn't need him, thinking that he has it all. He has the money, but the fame is not there. Everybody hates him, he is just cruel and is extremely selfish, but this is how he changes, not how he was. Scrooge's partner Marley dies and comes back to haunt him. Scrooge sees what will happen to him if he continues hating people, he will be weighed down in chains, his wrongdoings. Marley then tells Scrooge he will be haunted by three…

Through the years, Christmas has changed from family gathering, fun, joyful religious holiday to a day focused on who receives what and how great the value of the gift is. In the short story “Noel” we see this theory come into play. This short story shows how this holiday is not what it used to be. Christmas has changed from a traditional celebration to a modernized day in which is focused around money and receiving. Several patterns are recognized in this story and can provide evidence to prove…