Merry Christmas Essays

What would you prefer a big unfulfilling Christmas or a small and joyful holiday with friends and family? The author Hugh Martin of the song “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” did a great job on demonstrating the the theme in every verse. The theme of the song is that you do not need a big Christmas to enjoy the holidays, that family and friend are what Christmas is about. This analysis will show the poetic devices used to carry the theme. The poetic devices that were used were repetition,imagery

In 1941, two years after the commencement of World War Two, Japan entered the war and invaded much of Southern Asia, capturing and imprisoning 22’000 Australians, who became POWs. One of those prisoners was Colonel Ernest Edward Dunlop, known to his fellow Australians as ‘Weary’. A medical officer responsible for over a thousand men on the Burma-Thai railway, who has been remembered because of his significant devotion to his fellow POWs and how he resisted Japanese brutality. Weary Dunlop’s significance

skip in his step and merry smile. He was on his way to Bob Cratchit’s house. He walked the cobblestone streets. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a beggar sitting on the cold, biting stone. He approached him and gave him half a crown. The beggar looked up at him thankfully. “Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!” Scrooge declared with a smile and walked away continuing his journey to the Cratchit household. As he passed by people he smiled and said “Merry Christmas.” People looked at him

literature sometimes make dramatic transformations. In A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, the character Scrooge entirely changes his his whole character from some grouchy, old man into someone who is jovial and full of glee. In Stave 1, Dickens establishes Scrooge’s character as someone who is sulky and irritable. ‘What else can I be,’returned the uncle, ‘when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What’s the Christmastime to you but a time for paying

In Act 1 of a Christmas Carol, Scrooge is very stingy and only cares about his money. However, in Act 2 after being shown around by the ghosts he is more friendly and caring toward people and his money is not as important anymore. The play starts out with Scrooge in his office counting his money. In the stage directions when Marley introduces Scrooge as England’s most tightfisted hand, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Scrooge continues counting and

When I was younger, I remember my mom and my aunties would always start to make tamales and hot chocolate 2 days before Christmas Eve. The making of the tamales would take up to 2 days because they have to make enough for everyone. My mom would wake up early to start making them, and like around noon my aunties would come over to help. When we would put up the tree for Christmas, my mom would make hot chocolate with marshmallows and I would get warm under my soft blanket. I would watch movies all

“The cold within Scrooge froze his old features...he carried his own low temperatures always about him”(2). At the beginning of A Christmas Carol Scrooge was a bitter and selfish man who hates Christmas. “What shall I put you down for?” “Nothing!”Scrooge replied(9). This shows that Scrooge is selfish because he doesn’t want to donate money to charity. Scrooge changes from the beginning to the end of the novel. At the beginning of the story Scrooge is greedy, cold, and bitter. In the first stave

A Christmas Carol In a Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens deeply presents how being greedy and selfish may ruin your life. He created Scrooge as a greedy old man. Throughout his life all Scrooge cared about was his money and being rich. Scrooge’s actions prove these things. He refuses to give money to the poor, he gives his poor clerk a very small wage, and he refuses to spend time with his nephew for Christmas dinner. Through the rest of the story, Scrooge is visited by his old business partner

blinds us from our long-term potential (Michael Dooley). Young Scrooge started as a very hopeful, creative boy that had many negative experiences. These experiences set him on his cold hearted, lonely, christmas-hating path. As a young child, Scrooge was sent to a boarding school where he spent Christmas alone in the empty classrooms. This planted the first seed for his attitude later in life. A point in Scrooge’ life in which he was content was when he was apprenticed under Fezziwig. Learning business

In Charles Dickens' famous novel, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts who help him realize that he is not the man he should be. When he is invited to view his own gravestone by the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, Scrooge implores, But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Today I'm going to show how his ending change. The following evening ,Scrooge was haunted by Marley's ghost, which alert Scrooge that the dead who had horrible lives are called to explore

the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future on Christmas Eve. Each spirit leads scrooge to view one of three divergent times in his lifetime. The reason why the spirits visited him is because, they wanted to convince him to act more compassionate and less miserly to others. All of them had an impact on Scrooge, but one of them had the most. The Ghost of Christmas Past showed Scrooge

In a dramatized version of a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the Second Spirit refers to Scrooge metaphorically as “an insect on a leaf pronouncing that there is too much life among his hungry brothers in dust” (234). Like an insect of a leaf scrooge has an ample supply of food. Protected and warm scrooge rest in his lavish home while his fellow Londoners freeze on the streets. WIth his elite status, scrooge enjoys the lifestyle as an aristocrat. Scrooge is more fortunate than his hungry brothers

movie The Christmas Carol Scrooge was a business man, he was not nice to other people and did not like Christmas since his partner died on Christmas Eve. After he came from work his partner showed up as a ghost and warned him about three spirits that are going to visit him and each spirit shows him the past, present, and future. The spirit of Christmas that affected Scrooge the most were the spirit of Christmas future. Scrooge did not care about any one after his partner died on Christmas Eve. Once

The story Christmas Carol there is a charter named Fred. Scrooge is his uncle and he has a little problem with him.He hates Christmas, now I know what you are thinking how could somebody hate Christmas.Well, he is strictly business he never had kids and never got married.He hated it, he never gave to the charity he thought people on the street she goes to jail. Fred still loved he thought he just needed a change or two. Scrooge loved someone once and Fred never knew he never talked about it. Fred

Charles Dickens portrays Scrooge as an isolated old man. Dickens also Says Scrooge is lonely in all aspects of his life. This adds to the image that Scrooge is isolated and Charles Dickens also describes Scrooge as a 'solitary oyster'. He then goes on to describe Scrooge as being a 'tight fisted hand at the grine stone'. This means that scrooge is a misery and is un willing to spend any money. This is one idea already made clear at the being to the reader early on at the beginning of the story when

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach,” (Dickens 46) Throughout his life, Scrooge has mistreated, disrespected, and taken almost everyone in his life for granted. He simply knows of no other way to treat the other people around him. Especially at Christmas time is when Scrooge was the most hateful and selfish to anyone

Christmas is an important in religious celebration. Christmas is one a big festival celebrated. Most time in the winter season. Everyone enjoy a cultural holiday now. Christmas celebrated the every year on December 25. Christmas is Christian religious day, honoring the birth of Jesus. His birth date is unknown because there is no that much information about his early life. The original meaning of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Christ. Christmas became is an important time for families and

“What else can I be? Eh? When I live in a world of fools such as this? Merry Christmas? Whats Christmas time to you but a time of paying bills without any money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer. If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”(Dickens 3) Scrooge was the man that spoke these words of disgust. He was a conceited, greedy

and cynical, cruel and calculating man who mistreated his workers, to a man who was joyous and kind, merry and empathetic who felt great regret for the suffering he had inflicted in those around him, most notably the poor of which bob cratchit is a symbol in the novella. In stave 3, the ghost of Christmas present takes scrooge on a journey through London to show him how the poor celebrate Christmas, Scrooge is shown the poverty and suffering of the Cratchit family, whom he employs, we are shown

The concept of sacrifice and selflessness is a recurring theme in "The Gift of the Magi," "A Christmas Carol," and Chapter 3 of Thomas C. Foster's "How to Read Literature like a Professor." This is because in all 3 stories, the main characters all explore the themes of genuine kindness, selflessness, and sacrifice. Throughout their story, The main characters in "The Gift of the Magi," Jim and Della, consider giving up their most prized possessions in order to exchange gifts. According to the story