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    Additionally, theme is portrayed once again when scrooge is unexpectedly take to his past errors in life. With the help of The Spirit of Christmas Past, Ebenezer is taken to relive some of his worst times and hardest mistakes. To start that perturbing adventure, Scrooge is first brought back to his childhood. The Spirit of Christmas of Past lets the experience of Scrooge as a lonely boy unfold. Child Scrooge was heartbroken. Watching the friends that he did have, if any, be taken back to their…

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    The christmas carol is a famous christmas book made by Charles Dickens in 1843. The book is about an old man named ebenezer scrooge who hates christmas and is sent into the past, present, and future by three spirits to convince him to stop. There are tons of different versions of this story, I´m going to compare the ending of three of them, the original, the animated movie version, and the marvel comic. First lets compare how all three of them are similar. The ending of all three versions is…

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    In Chapter 1, T.J. makes fun of Little Man, when Little Man is angered by getting his Sunday clothes dirty. T.J. does not even make an effort to help Little Man out, when Little Man was struggling to get on the bank. When Stacey said to get up on the bank, Little Man didn’t, and he paid the price when the bus got his Sunday clothes drenched in red dust. Stacey says, “shut up” to T.J., as well as Cassie, but decides to go back to him, and forgive him once they are on the school grounds. This…

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    The Old Man From The Story A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings And Esteban From The Handsomest Drowned Man In The Same World Are Opposite Of Each Other. First They Are Different In Terms In Terms On How They Are Portrayed. The Man Who Was And Angel, Was Portrayed As An Ugly Old Man Who Doesn’t Even Resemble And Angel. In The Handsomest Drowned Man He Was Handsome As The Title Says. Chronicles These two short stories "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" and "A Very Old Man with Enormous…

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    Gift Giving Among Hobbits

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    Gift Giving – Among Hobbits it’s custom for the one who is celebrating their birthday to give presents to their guests. A theory I favour is that this custom has its origins from when the Hobbits still dwelled in the upper vales of the river Anduin and Sméagol (later called Gollum) murdered his brother over the One Ring. The details of that story were lost to the Hobbits, but the custom remained to remember that giving is always better than taking. Nori, of course, doesn’t have a clue about any…

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    and similar A Christmas Carol, the movie is to the written play.There are lots of similarities, but there are a few notable differences between the two including the Past, Present, and Future of his Christmases. In the play A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by three spirits that show him Past Christmases, present Christmases, and future Christmases. In Past, Scrooge is shown his old boss Fezziwig and how he stopped their work to hold a dance on Christmas. He is…

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    In this passage, it is Christmas time and Rudy’s father is still gone. Liesel makes an attempt at cheering him up by bringing Rudy to his father’s tailoring company after dark. As the two children poke around the abandoned shop and find old treasures. To any passerby they would look like normal children, a little on the skinny side, but other than that normal. What they do not see is the hurt that stays inconspicuously behind the eyes of human embodiments of sorrow and pain. They escape these…

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    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens shows the theme that anyone can become a better person if they look upon their past. The reader learns that even someone like Scrooge can become a great man. At the beginning of the story, Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy, rude man. On pages 17 and 18 he refuses to donate any of his money (Which he has plenty of) to the poor. On page 20 a caroller comes to his door and Scrooge makes them run away. On page 15 he refuses his own nephew’s Christmas meal invitation.…

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    The movie “The Little Prince”, is about a little girl who lives a very grown-up life with her mom. In the movie, her mother tries to prepare her for adulthood. They move into a house next to a nutty older man named the Aviator. The Aviator introduces the girl to an extraordinary world where anything is possible, which is the world of the little prince. The older man in this film is an exaggerated stereotype because he's like the crazy older man who lives on the block. All the neighbors try to…

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    Winter Dreams Fitzgerald

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald has a very critical view of the world and he illustrates that in the short story “Winter Dreams”. The main character Dexter, lives a life full of want and contempt, longing for Judy. This story is six sections long which infold the unlikely lives of Dexter and Judy. F. Scott Fitzgerald loads his story with lots of symbolism, starting with the title of this short story. Fitzgerald uses the seasons throughout his story to create a depressing mood to help develop Dexter. The…

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