Jacob Bernoulli

To begin with, I think it is necessary to address the fact that the spirit of Christmas varies hugely depending on the stave or character Dickens is referring to in the novel. Briefly, we know Scrooge, the main protagonist, doesn't appreciate Christmas; 'bah humbug' and 'A squeezing, wrenching, gasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner'. ( First quote shows his hatred towards Christmas, the other shows his personality). Where as, if we take Bob Cratchit, the clerk working for Scrooge, he enjoys…

What is the true meaning of Christmas? Our surroundings are filled with Christmas trees, elves, Santa Clauses, and gifts. All of these things are what we directly come up with when one asks about the true meaning of Christmas. However, Christmas is so much more than that. It is the time of giving, discovering ourselves and spending time with the people that are the most important to us. Every family has their own traditions and rituals as they come together and unite during the holidays. The…

Mr.Scrooge is an old man that has a pointed nose, shriveled cheeks, red eyes, thin lips, a grating voice, and a wiry chin. Old Mr. Scrooge is a gloomy, hateful, moody, thoughtless old man that can’t stand anything that is bright, cheerful, charming, or pleasant. When Scrooge is hateful he has a good reason to be, the reason Scrooge is so hateful is because Marley died so he feels lonesome and miserable.I feel as though Scrooge has depression or a type of anxiety because he changes his mood a lot…

employee a day off with pay (keeping only with social custom) and considers this custom “… a poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth December!” (Dickens 47). Later that same night Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley. Marley tells Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits, one on each of the next three evenings, and that he must listen to these ghosts or he will be cursed. The first ghost takes Scrooge to visit the Christmases that are…

Twain 5). The ghost of his partner, Jacob Marley shows Scrooge the outcome of being greedy. In result, he sends three spirits to sharpen up his attitude. The three spirits show him the horrible life on his partner Bob Cratchit, the poor and homeless, and the grave house where he rests. Scrooge promises to change his ways of life. When he returns in his bed he wakes up…

Have you ever see ghosts that showed you the future, present, and past. Well, Scrooge has seen a ghost! Scrooge was scared of the first ghosts. It is his old CO worker warning him to listen to the ghost carefully, or he will become like him in a couple of days. Scrooge was starting to freak out when the second ghost scared him to death. The ghost showed him his friends and his girlfriend and how he treated him. After he sat in his chair, the third ghost watched his CO worker celebrate…

In “One for the Road” by Stephen King, Tookey is an example of the wise elder stereotype because he knows all the facts about ‘The Lot’. This story is about two old men who are working in Tookey’s bar one night, when a man walks into the bar saying that he needs help. The man, Gerald Lumley, told the two men that him and his family were traveling and his car got stuck in the blizzard at Jerusalem's Lot. Lumley left his family in the car while he would go look for help, but what Lumley and his…

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…

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.…

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…