Miser

All around the world, people are suffering and being killed everyday. At this point of time, several wars and several kinds of wars are being fought. Everyday, in horrifying bloodsheds, men, women and children’s lives will be lost due to human harm but when you live thousands of miles away from the suffering it is easy to simply just look the other way. In Be Here Now by author, Miguel Syjuco from 2010 theses are just some of the problems that are being present-ed. Through a story, where…

Marley and Scrooge - the firm, known as Scrooge and Marley - although the sign hasn't changed since Marley’s death, the one thing that had worsened is the personality of Scrooge, the tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! On page two, I noticed the author states that Scrooge has an insufficient fire for keeping himself warm, but the clerk’s fire (Bob Cratchit) was so indubitably small that it looked like one coal, which…

In the 16th century in plays and legends, the fantasy of making a deal with the devil which sacrifice’s a person’s morality became common. This is called a Faustian Tale, and in numerous books and stories they are used to startle people and to advise people to not make deals with the devil. Such deals appears in “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving and in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. The short story is about a man who declines a deal with the devil, but once his wife…

things that happen during the course of his day with his customers and they are always interesting and / or amusing. Two stories that seem particularly fitting to the stories that my husband tells are Zlateh the Goat and Shrewd Todie & Lyzer the Miser. In Singer’s stories, the Jew’s always find a way to make lemonade out of lemons and I think that is apropos given the repressed environment that they were faced with. I feel that these stories are written extraordinarily well and are a…

A Steampunk Christmas Carol was exhibited on Sunday December 6th, by Pendulum Space. It was a professional show that added a new twist on the classic “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. The play incorporated the storyline of the classic “Christmas Carol” with a steampunk twist that referenced Nikola Tesla and portrayed Scrooge as a counting house mogul who also deals in mechanical bits and pieces. The story also incorporates elements of the classic “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley in one of…

Gilgamesh was power hungry, never straying from his hoarding habits, even in the wake of a friend’s death. Gilgamesh was an example of human corruption through power. With the greed he exemplifies, Gilgamesh’s story followed the archetype of the miser. Gilgamesh’s greed and thirst for power overshadowed…

readers a valuable lesson. The lesson learned, or moral, that Washington Irving is trying to portray in this story is that greed leads you down the wrong path and self-destruction. Tom Walker and his wife had an unhappy marriage. Tom was known as a miser, his wife would hide food from him, and she is described as "fierce of temper," "loud of tongue," and "strong of arm." He was eager to go into the woods to escape from their bitter relationship, but only for a short break. When Tom digs up an…

We all saved our date i.e. 20th April 2011 for Siva’s wedding. Siva was from Gods land – Kerala. Apparently Kerala is a honeymoon destination. Munnar is the most important spot in honeymoon package. We decided to visit Munnar after the wedding. On 19th April 2011, my main task was to give a wakeup call to everyone. The previous night most of the folks were in office to complete one major project release. Dan as usual slept again after my wakeup call. I was doubtful; that’s why dialed again…

Candide asks his scholarly companion Martin, “Do you believe that men have always massacred one another as they do today? That they have always been liars, traitors, ingrates, thieves, weaklings, sneaks, cowards, backbiters, gluttons, drunkards, misers, climbers, killers, calumniators, sensualists, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools (Voltaire)?” This turning point of the story expresses a very dark portrayal of humankind,…

Christmas Carol on How the Grinch Stole Christmas A strong story can become many others. The traditional work of A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens is based in the 1800’s, in a town of England. The main Character Ebenezer Scrooge is an old miser who hates the Christmas celebration in the town. Scrooge is haunted by 3 ghosts, The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The three ghosts haunt Scrooge because they are trying to…