Christmas Eve

I absolutely loved Christmas not only because of the gifts, but I was able to basically everyone on my mother’s side that day. On Christmas Eve, I would go to my father’s side of the family, but my sister and I were closer to my grandparents on my mother’s side. I never met my grandpa on my father’s side and my grandma only lived until I was in third grade, therefore I do not have many memories of her when I was younger. During Christmas, my parents, sister and I would go to my…

In “God in the Doorway,” Annie Dillard conveys a shift in her perception of God by associating fearful childhood experiences with her current interpersonal relationship with God. Santa Claus appears at Dillard’s doorway on Christmas Eve and as a young girl Dillard reacts in fear of a powerful, omniscient god-like figure and runs away. (M.S. 1) Dillard later realizes Miss White, her elderly neighbor, dressed-up as Santa Claus intending to shape a loving relationship with Dillard. Miss White…

Today is Christmas Eve and the Wonder Kids are tidying up. The queens were caring for their pups and the minions were sleeping peacefully, for once. The princesses, Paige and Colleen were making treats and pies while the cooks, Emily and Crystal were making tomorrow night’s feast. Even the puppies, Marshall, Michele, and Maddie were helping, to the best of their abilities. They were jumping up and hanging the ornaments on the tree. Queen Chaplin was watching from her command chair while she was…

women” (Rambsy). In many of her short stories, Bambara faced a similar experience herself. One of Bambara’s famous short stories is “Christmas Eve at Johnson’s Drugs N Goods.” The protagonist, Candy is a single child, who feels lonely because none of her parents live…

One day there was a light pink sponge named SpongeBob squarepants. He was helping his friend Patrick paint his mac nut shell colored rock into a rose yellow. They were having the best time in the world, each saying how they splatted ice cream on each other faces. Suddenly, SpongeBob fell into the bucket of paint. When he got out he said, “Patrick, why did you do that?’’ “Do what?’’ said Patrick. SpongeBob just kept blaming Patrick for pushing him into the bucket even though Patrick didn’t do…

I was in school the seventh grade class just doing the normal things you know,like science , math, reading about fictional stories . So people said that Santa and aliens other things were real.So I told them they are not real. “You people just making fools of yourself,Nick said. We went to our wierd class that all the nerds will come with facts about things like science, after that I felt like I was a lonely planet like pluto. I felt lonely because there was a lot of kids that were kind…

Sticking two black button eyes on our snowman, I turned and gave Charlie a high-five. We didn't do this much, thinking of it, I couldn't remember the last time we had. "Finished!" I said. "And there's not a finer snowman in the whole neighborhood." But Charlie wasn't looking at me. He was staring at the snowman, his face almost as white as its. "D-d-d-did you s-s-s-see THAT?" he stammered. We had been at this for nearly the whole afternoon, and nothing marvelous had happened. I slowly turned…

are they talking about.My parents always tought me at this age that the tooth fairy and the other charcters of tale where not real. When I lost a tooth in school I thought “Cool a tooth,” but other kids thought I would get some easy cash.During Christmas there was no santa for my brother and I.We knew that our parents would do the wrapping and shopping.Of course other kids later say, “ SANT CAME TO MY HOUSE!!!!!.”I knew better and ended up getting in trouble saying to a kid santa isn't real.…

I hate ham. And what make christmas dinner different than any other night. Ham. And I despise ham. I also despise Aunt dorothy 's boxed cheesy potatoes that made me stomach turn. Cheese is not meant to be on potatoes even if they are from the box. Every time we went over I knew I would be filling up jello jigglers and fruit, but I would take a bit of both and force feed myself. With a black garbage bag over his shoulder, and his pants drooping past his waist, I could tell that he wasn’t the…

“I immediately regretted opening Pandora’s Box when Mom walked in on my late-night cookie-escapade.” “Upon seeing the crowded ferry boat, I appropriately muttered that we would be needing a bigger boat..” “Yesterday, while waiting for my bus to arrive after work, the man next to me told me his whole life story. Something about a box of chocolates, life, and Jenny. He was crazy, I tell you.” Uses: Allusion may be used to further the narrative of a book by referring to metaphor or such seen in…