The Muppet Christmas Carol

Holidays, in addition to being a festive time for celebrating with friends and family, is also a time to enjoy classic fine arts together. A stable every Christmas season is the Nutcracker, which the literature is republished in multiple forms including play, dance, and orchestra concerts. This season I had the pleasure of being a audience of The Nutcracker presented at the McCaw Hall. The show was phenomenal, and included moments of cheerfulness and happiness, but during others moments of grave…

Dickens novella, “A Christmas Carol”, continues to influence many aspects of Christmas that are celebrated today, such as family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, a spirit of generosity and a humanitarian focus of generosity of those less fortunate during this holiday season. It is the diverse views of the spirit of generosity and humanitarian focus that Dickens seeks to expose in this literary work. The landscapes of the novella shift between the poverty stricken, sick and imprisoned to…

curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air.” (Dickens 14) The ghosts in Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol were portrayed creatively and the director of one of the many film interpretations recreated the ghosts almost exactly like Dickens. Three of the ghosts in the film seemed to the most tantamount to the ghosts interpreted in the movies. They were: the ghost of Jacob Marley, the ghost of Christmas past, and the ghost of Christmases yet to come. David Jones has an accurate depiction…

A film producer, who doesn’t believe in Christmas, is determined to make the horror film Evil Santa 4, but things go horribly wrong when the real Santa Claus accidentally lands the role. STORY COMMENTS SANTA IN HOLLYWOOD is a family friendly, holiday magical fantasy filled with imagination. The concept is very clever. “Saving Christmas” movies are not new or original to holiday films, but the concept of the real Santa landing a Hollywood role of Evil Santa in a horror film offers a fun twist…

I Believe Which person are you? Are you the type that opes presents on Christmas Eve or the type that opens on Christmas Day? There is a significant balance between the two days depending what the family prefers more. But I’m here to tell you that its best to open your Christmas presents on Christmas Day. It’s an annual tradition to open gifts on Christmas Day. Majority of families open on Christmas mornings. Children wake up early because they are eager to open their presents that they…

of being a lonely and greedy man. there are many differences between the movie and play. This is normally considered as compare and contrast. In a Christmas Carol the difference isn’t huge but the have there differences. In the drama Ebenezer Scrooge is a cruel man who doesn't share he high amounts of money he has and also hates the idea of Christmas. “ Bah! Humbug!”( Twain 5). The ghost of his partner, Jacob Marley shows Scrooge the outcome of being greedy. In result, he sends three spirits to…

All the people living there got to help with everything getting ready for Christmas. It was Christmas Morning, Kyra got breakfast ready while Brooke got everyone up. They gathered by a fire and sung Christmas songs while their food was prepping. They all loved having Christmas with each other opening gifts. It was the next day, they had a couple of older people who could not take care of each other and so they had them fill…

worker celebrate Christmas without presents for the kids just a little of food. The ghost also showed people talking about Scrooge in a bad way. The ghost came to visit Scrooge. He was thinking about the Ghost of Christmas past and presents and he was thinking how can I change my life style to become a merrier and not being depressing all the time. Scrooge would pay his employees very poorly and that is not right. Most of the employees could not afford to celebrate; Christmas or holidays…

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…