Ebenezer Scrooge

CULTURAL RITUALS DURING CHRISTMAS Many people think Christmas is only celebrated on the 25th of December, but that’s not entirely true (Cooper, 2016). It depends in which country you in and your Christian traditions. In South Africa we celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December, with Christmas Eve the night before and Boxing Day the day after. Although Christmas celebrations start way before that for some Christians who believe in Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. For these Christians,…

Do you ever feel like you're living the same day over and over again? Phil Connors (Bill Murray) can relate with the 1993 film “Groundhog Day”. This film written by Harold Ramis is a romantic comedy that keeps the audience guessing, but also makes them reflect on themselves. Phil is a stuck up guy, that only worries about his own problems and doesn’t think about how he is affecting other people’s lives. Phil, a weatherman, is sent on assignment to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities in…

The main character Scrooge is a guy who is mean and disrespectful in the begging of the whole story. His name Scrooge means that he is a hard hearted person. His friend Marley was a women who was his business partner who had died in the story represents mankind. The ghost that visits Scrooge means memory, charity, and fear of death. Charles Dickens reminds his readers throughout the story that you should notice the crowd and group of people that you hang out with. In the opening chapter or…

Unwarranted guilt is one of Dunstan’s biggest personality flaws in Fifth Business, unlike the character Percy-Boyd Staunton the thrower of the snowball, who seems to feel the least amount of guilt. Percy never owns up to throwing the snowball, nor does he take interest in the decline of Mary Dempster and the destruction of her family. His life becomes one glorious success after another, from successfully navigating his way through the great depression, to becoming wealthy through his…

A Christmas Carol is a over 100 year old book yet people still find joy in reading it. Scrooge changed a lot between the beginning and the end of the christmas carol. The real change was the ghost of christmas past showed him his younger self sitting at his school all alone. In the beginning of the novella scrooge sees himself as a neglected lonely young boy. Seeing how miserable he was makes him start thinking about his own actions and how they affect others. “ ‘The school is not quite…

This story was highly entertaining, and Dickens’ word choice depicted Ebenezer Scrooge’s character very well. Additionally, instead of simply registering disbelief in readers, the appearance of the spirits instead formed the emotional backbone of the novella. Key plot elements in the story relied on the ideas of metamorphosis…

Although four out of every five people seem, lost all humanity in todays world, Richard LeMieux shows that one person who still has their humanity through his humbiling experience. The purpose of LeMieux’s excerpt “The Lady In Red” serves to illustrate to the reader a world in which people contain no desire to even help out an unfortunate man on the street and he successfully persuades the reader of this horror mainly through pathos appeal. LeMieux and his dog Willow find themselves in a rough…

elements were used throughout the movie to add to the story and make it more interesting to watch. There are many similarities between the book and the movie version of A Christmas Carol. First, in both, Scrooge is a grumpy old man who hated Christmas. You can see this in the book when Scrooge says, “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes around with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart” (page 6). Also, in…

In J. R. R. Tolkien story, “The Hobbit”, Bilbo, the main character, is a man who displays courage and strength while on the adventures of being a false burgular. In the story, Bilbo decides to give Bard and the others the Arkenstone of Thrain to help in haggling with Thorin. The reason for Bilbo actions comes from Bard seeking aid from Thorin, because while killing the dragon Smaug, Laketown was destroyed. Thorin feels as though Laketown’s destruction isnt his problem, and in this refused to…

“Feeling excluded is not being excluded.” The phrase above is a direct quote from John Gibson’s The War on Christmas. Among the several claims he make, I considered that quote the most contradictory and interesting one of all. Gibson uses it to explain how he, a Christian, does not feel excluded while differing religious observe their own practices, but the idea of Christmas not having the “prowess” as before is threatening. Although the erasure of specific titles to Christmas artifacts (ex.…