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    Grinch comparison essay Similarities between the Grinch book and movie include-the theme is Christmas isn't about presents, The Who's love Christmas, and the grinch stole everyone's presents. The first similarity is the theme. In the book, at first the Who's love presents but then they realized that family is all they need. For example, “Every Who down in Who-Ville, the tall and the small, Was singing! Without any present at all!” (28). In the movie, the Who's sing in the morning after they witness their missing trees and presents. Another similarity is that The Who's love Christmas in both the movie and book. An example from the book is, “Every Who down in Who-Ville, the tall and the small, Would stand down close together, with Christmas…

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    Have you ever been accused of something you did not do like the Grinch. The who’s blamed him of destruction of the city. The grinch is not guilty. The grinch gaved all of the present back at the end. The grinch is not guilty of the charges brought against him, nor does he have poor characteristics. He is a caring person because of when he gave the presents back to the who’s. He gives the presents back because of how he felt when he stole the presents from the who's. When he stole the present…

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    Did you know that the actor who played the Grinch, Jim Carrey, spent a total of 92 days in the Grinch Outfit? He also had to go through two and a half hours just to put it on and then an other hour just to take it off! How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a family favorite Christmas fantasy movie, directed by the talented Ron Howard. The movie has an amazing cast featuring Jim Carrey as the Grinch, Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who, Christine Baranski as Martha May Whovier, Molly Shannon as Bette…

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    Dr. Seuss’s movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas won a numerous amount of awards such as the Kids’ Choice Award, but what really made people feel like it was fit for all of these awards? With the humor in it and the holiday spirit it expresses, many children fell in love with the Grinch when it first came out, and continue to love it still today. Although many people consider The Grinch to be too childish; it is one of the best Christmas movies. Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer,…

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    He couldn’t go back the other way because all of those people wanted to eat him. He couldn’t go on the lake because he didn’t know how to ice skate. Just then, a sly and hungry Grinch arrived. The Grinch had a plan. “Hold on to my tail Snowman and I will help you across the lake.” The Snowman thought you himself, “I will be safe just holding on to his tail.” So the Snowman left the Grinch help him across the lake. By the middle of the lake, the Grinch told the Snowman, “you are too heavy…

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    with, the Grinch is in no sense a typical hero. Instead, he is seen by all in his town as a mean outsider. The average hero is beloved by the reader and the reader wants the hero to succeed. This is not the case with the Grinch due to the fact that he comes across as the evil that should be defeated. This challenge Campbell’s claim on the hero 's journey because the grinch isn’t even a hero and the reader doesn’t want the main character to succeed, which is essential in most stories. The Grinch…

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    To begin with, the Grinch is in no sense a typical hero. Instead, he is seen by all in his town as a mean outsider due to his views on society 's favorite holiday. He sought to destroy that which they loved due to his exclusion. The Grinch’s plan was to steal all things Christmas from the citizens from Whoville. In the morning he expected to hear a commotion down in the town due to everything being stolen and Christmas being ruined. Instead, the townsmen were still very merry as if everything…

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    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…

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    When I was a child, the Grinch had always been my favorite holiday movies. As I was aging and taking more classes in regards about psychological disorders, I had realized that the Grinch could be diagnosed with a real life disorder. According to the DSM-5, the Grinch seems to be suffering from antisocial personality disorder. The Grinch is an unhappy man who lives with only his dog, and only social companion, on the top of Mount Crumpits, a 10,000 foot tall snowy mountain. He has no…

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    I will analyze How the Grinch Stole Christmas through Marxist criticism, which is based on economic class, wealth, and social systems. This poem was written in third person by Dr. Seuss, and it describes the Who’s in Who-ville celebrating Christmas. In this poem, it was evident that Who-ville lived under communism because they all celebrate similarly, treated one another equally, and it was evident that in Who-ville no one was left out. “Then the Whos, young and old, would sit down to a…

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