Ghost of Christmas Present

Introduction Christian themes and metaphors are common in literature because of their universal renown, but depending on how these are used and referenced in the work, they convey different meanings and have different effects on the reader. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway are two works of literature that use Christian allegories. In Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, four children venture into the magic world of…

know that their ancestors all started in Maycomb. For them, Maycomb is the whole world. Nothing exciting goes on there, so they seem to make things appear to be more exciting to entertain themselves. Lee uses this sense of boredom and sleepiness present in the town to create a sense of surprise and interest as Maycomb turns out to be anything but boring in the events that happen during the novel. Everyone in Maycomb gets along fine, but they create problems and fear that aren’t even there. This…

if it means putting others happiness before their own. The structure of the novel; a novel in monthly instalments and each month describes and develops Tita’s life and relationship with Pedro. In the novel ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ Laura Equivel presents the novels protagonist as a lover of food and describes how her love for food began and why she has a special connection with the kitchen and cooking. Her relationship with the man she is forbidden to marry due to traditional beliefs is…

main characters in the books. Although Holden grows up in the 1950s’ America, where nascent social rebellions started emerging, and Hamlet is identified as the Prince of the rotten state of Denmark, J.D Salinger and William Shakespeare manage to present these two…

promotes ancient legends knowing how attractive this is in the consumer market due to the obsession with Halloween, which is actually more popular than Christmas and makes more money. If one were to search through YouTube, the music artists are even inspired by the legend of La Llorona, as apparently the madness of her story is very attractive to the present day society and well it is a business. Me and my friends have gone to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, where there…

Urban legends are very complex and interesting aspects of culture. They often inspire holidays, movies, poetry, stories and more. But urban legends go far beyond how they seem on the surface. Their origins and the messages they send must be decoded to understand the true context of any urban legend. Illustrating the messages, urban legends may be benign, or malicious. In the context of this paper, an urban legend is a story or anecdote that is based on hearsay and widely circulated as true…

We are accustomed to accepting novels to present us with satisfactory conclusion, by which we usually means a solution to the problem and predicaments the story has set out. But isn’t this altogether unrealistic? How many of problems and predicaments of real life – moral, social, political – are…

She walked on. In the paved city it was Christmas time. There were red and green electric lights strung and crisscrossed everywhere, and all turned on in the daytime. Old Phoenix would have been lost if she had not distrusted her eyesight and depended on her feet to know where to take her. She paused quietly on the sidewalk, where people were passing by. A lady came along in the crowd, carrying an armful of red, green, and silver-wrapped presents; she gave off perfume like the red roses in…

can be present in the media as alternative…

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