Twelve Days of Christmas

Dickens makes a positive aura around the Christmas feeling as of Stave 1, he makes the Stave full of energy as when Scrooge wakes up he is suddenly buzzing with energy and is as “light as a feather” and runs to the window where a young boy is shocked to know that Scrooge doesn’t know what day it is. Scrooge pays the boy to get the poultries and to buy the prize turkey which he delivers to Bob Cratchits as anonymous. The Stave is significant to the story as it shows that if someone as miserly as…

sixty miles and four days, those were the words I heard every summer being screamed all the way on the journey from Great Meadows, New Jersey to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. For those who do not speak Polish, “prawa, lewa wolna” means “right, left free”. Every summer, knowing that the second Thursday of August is approaching, I get more eager to open up and check my tent, get plastic storage boxes and perhaps even purchase a new pair of sneakers that will be worn out in four days. Then, I begin my…

There’s so much that I’ve forgotten about that Christmas… I’m not even sure if it was in my uncle Mickey’s current house or the house before that. What I do know is that it was in the top five Christmases I had growing up. We stopped gift giving and celebrating when I was twelve or thirteen; by the time I started high school, we didn’t even put the tree up. Too much damn work to get that thing up and down in a timely manner each year. When I was really little, we left the tree up way into the…

quite interesting. Just like the gift my mother offers me every single day. The appearance of the gift isn’t quite physical, it’s more of a feeling that only I get to feel. A feeling that makes me feel warm. It’s September of 2006, my birth month. I pass by the kitchen eavesdropping on my mother talking on the phone about a huge birthday party that I knew was for me; however, I pretended not to know. I wanted to be excited. The day comes, and my loving mother knew exactly what I wanted, a…

because of her great imagination.’ Lily’s expression of her creativity is to tell stories or exaggerated facts that happened earlier that day. Bill is the creative character in the movie “Pleasantville” as he mentions that he enjoys painting pictures in the window of his shop. Even though he only acquired the opportunity to paint his shop once a year at Christmas time he was able to change the design he painted to his own preference or pleasure. These two people are individuals and possess…

Concert were to enjoy last day before a Christmas holiday and to show parents what their sons and daughters had learned in their music classes. Every Middle and High school students who learned music played and sang songs with their teams. Teams were divided by the students’ music class period and their grades. I was in 8th grade choir team, and my team sang 2 songs respectively and 1 song with high school choir team. Those were Winter Wonderland, Twelve Days of Christmas, and Jingle Bells. I…

Every child who celebrates Christmas during the winter anticipates one event above all others: the opening of presents. I remember staying up all night the day before Christmas shaking with eagerness, wondering what type of toys I would be bestowed in the morning. As a general overview, Christmas is a winter holiday celebrated in late December in many American cultures. During Christmas, gifts are given through a variety of means such as an overnight visit from an impersonated Santa, a secret…

happens between those four walls. He finds himself struggling to not tell his friends Asher and Fiona, which leads to him asking himself if his parents had ever lied to him. He learns so much that he ends up realizing what the community really is. one day he went and asked the giver to show him a video of the release his father did on an infant that morning. Everything that they did was recorded, they were being watched and heard at every…

66). This shows that she misses the good old days when life was not so complicated. Also, she realized that her life will never go back to the way it was before the summer. Then a little later she found something in her apple. The novel said, “My apple has twelve seeds. One of the seeds had split it’s shell and reaches a white hand upwards. An apple tree growing from an apple seed growing in an able” (Anderson 67). This shows even though happy carefree days are over, and horrible events happen…

characters and more realistic situations. However, what do they all have in common? They live in stories. Two stories that are interesting are The Giver by Lois Lowry, and "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote. When Jonas in The Giver turns 12, he is picked for something special and finds out some secret things. Buddy in "A Christmas Memory" bakes fruit cakes with his distant cousin when life takes a twist. While there are some obvious similarities, both authors approach these stories…