Wonderful Christmastime 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 Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory,” there are many aspects of irony in the poem. The poem is about a man, named Richard Cory, who seems to have the perfect life. He has good looks and a lot money, it sounds like he has it all. The people are not as wealthy as Richard Cory, and some are considered poor. Although Richard Cory has a higher status than everyone else, he still talks and mingles with them. The people in the area are jealous of Richard’s life. The story illustrates that one should

In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo was a wealthy farmer and had two barns full of yams, he was already a great man for his age. Unoka, his father, had died ten years ago, was lazy and improvident and was in alot of debt and was a failure. Nwoye, Okonkwo’s first son, was twelve years old and was lazy, he starting to be like his grandfather. Okonkwo’s biggest flaw is the fear of becoming like his father and to becoming unsuccessful and less of a man. In chapter four, the whole

As a toddler I developed a reputation for being the Garbage Girl. Every Wednesday as the trundle of the garbage truck echoed through the streets of my village I would bolt outside, princess dress flapping in the breeze to meet my honorary Aunty Katrina, the driver, and Uncle Conrad, the collector. I’d don my child sized gloves and grab the miniature trash picker that Uncle had gifted me, and we’d go to work. My mornings were spent happily skipping after the truck and spearing wayward pieces of trash

Hanna, the main character of Chapter 8 of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s Three Women in a Mirror is yearning. She is yearning to be different, to realize her potential. But, eventually, she finds out that she is no different of all the other women of her time and her position. She is just like everybody else and in the near future she will be even more like everybody else. As a result, all of her life she will have to ask herself: Is that all? In this chapter, Hanna writes a letter to her cousin Gretchen

completely different world from Kansas. The minute she arrives to the Land of the Munchkins, she doesn’t decide to socialize with others but on the other hand, she asks how she can get home. Even though the Emerald City and the Munchkin Country was wonderful, kind and marvelous, she was very disappointed when the Wizard of Oz left without her on the air balloon. Furthermore, when she arrived home in Kansas, she was exhilarated. This shows that nothing could replace Dorothy’s home; it was basically her

A dark storm descended upon the city like a group of moths to a flame. A quaint restaurant sat beneath it all on the corner of Anglesea Street. A proud woman triumphantly wiped down the last table in the dim light of the small ceiling lamps. Her days had been long up until now, as she had to work night and day for the past month. Now, she had finally raised the amount of money needed for a trip to America, a fresh start, to be exact. The next day, she would be on a boat, sailing to America as she

The story was happened in 1906, at Oklahoma territory, near Tulsa. Oklahoma! was adapted from a play called Green Grow the Lilacs which was adapted from an old folksong called “Green Grow the Lilacs”. The story is about an American soldier’s love for a Mexican lass(senorita). The cowboys in south Texas loved sing the song and white Americans became known as “Gringo” by the Mexicans. Richard Charles Rogers was an American composer of music with more than 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals. He was

Analysis of “What Bugs Bunny Said to Red Riding Hood” “Little Red Riding Hood” is one of the most beloved and most revised folk tale throughout history. Tim Seibles’s “What Bugs Bunny Said to Red Riding Hood” took this timeless story and turned it into a humorous, parodic poem. Despite the fact that the text was written as a poem, it demonstrates rules of folklore and contains aspects of the original “Little Red Riding Hood”. With “What Bugs Bunny Said to Red Riding Hood” written in poem format,

Throughout the novel of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, color plays a major role. Each land had its own color and the color represented its land. For example, the land of the Munchkins was blue while the land of the Winkies was yellow. Baum liked to use color theory in a variety of the stories he had illustrated. The colors would symbolize each city. Introducing color throughout the novel was Baum 's way of being stylish and creative. The use of colors in the classic story illustrates the talent and

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum is the author of The Wizard Oz. One of the magical messages he creates while making Oz is his color design regarding the regions. Baum utilizes the color blue to the Munchkins Country. Green is also one of the colors Baum uses for his layout of the regions. This color represents the Emerald City. Winkies Country is what the color yellow is exploited for. Baum illustrates the color blue for the Eastern region where the Munchkins reside. The clothing that

Conflict Literary Analysis: The Outsiders and It's a Wonderful Life In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton and the movie It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra, both characters, Darry Curtis and George Bailey, face an external conflict because of the fact that they are both always sacrificing for family. In the film It's a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra, the main character, George Bailey, faces many internal struggles that come from him sacrificing so much for his family. Starting off

In the novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” the colors are used to bring meaning to the various aspects of the story. Initially when Dorothy is in Kansas at her Aunt and Uncles farm everything is presented in muted colors, like gray and dreary. This coloring also serves as a symbol for the life that Dorothy lived in Kansas. It was a boring life, simple and there wasn’t much to smile about. After the cyclone she finds herself and her dog Toto in the Land of the Munchkins, where blue is the primary

“There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home…” Many will instantly recognize the sentence that Dorothy repeated while tapping her glittery, red-clad heels in order to depart from the Land of Oz. While Oz was full of dazzling, frightening creatures and beautiful places, Dorothy wanted to return home to Kansas. She missed her family and the familiarity common with home. While unceremonious, the farm of her childhood provided her with activities wildly different from Oz. Accordingly, vacationing

In the movie the Wizard of Oz, based on the book written by L. Frank Baum, one of Dorothy’s companions was the Scarecrow. The Scarecrow wanted to go to Emerald City because he described himself as “brainless” because his head was filled with straw. Little did he know, all along he had the potential to be a complex thinker, he just didn’t realize exactly how intelligent he was. There were three scenes that show how the Scarecrow already have the smarts he greatly desires. For instance, one of the

Through human nature people surroundings influence who they become. The main character Amy is a long way from home, she is snatched by a tornado and taken to Oz. Nothing seems right to Amy at the time she gets there. As she goes through many ups and downs she is picked up by the ORDER, a group of the wicked who have joined together to kill Dorothy. Dorothy is back in Oz and is taking the magic. The wicked explain to Amy she is the only one who can kill Dorothy. Along the way the magic, the characters

This quote is said by the Tin Woodsman in chapter six of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. The Tin Woodsman is explain to the others why he is so forlorn after her accidentally stepping and killing the beetle. This quote is significant to the text as a whole for two main reasons; it is a very ironic quote, the Tin Woodsman is one of the most compassionate, selfless, and loving or all the characters in the novel (he even cries when he accidentally steps on a beetle) and yet he claims

The book opens on the Yellow Brick Road. Dorothy and her friends are being watched by the Wicked Witch, and she thinks back on her life in Oz, how she wasn’t always so wicked as others think she is. “But surely the curse was on the land of Oz, not on her. Though Oz had given her a twisted life, hadn’t it also made her capable?”(page 4). It’s not Elphaba’s fault that she’s wicked, Oz had shaped her this way. From her childhood to her death,the sweet girl is morphed into a feared, powerful witch.

L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a light-hearted narrative commonly referred to as the “first American fairytale” (Lecture). Fairytales developed from the folktale, which began as oral literature that was passed down from one generation to the next. That being said, the stories were often acted out. It is very plausible that Baum, who was an actor and playwright himself, saw in his mind’s eye the story of Oz being acted out as he wrote it. As such, many of the scenes are quite theatrical

Dorothy’s iconic “There is no place like home,” from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has echoed in the hearts of millions since L. Frank Baum’s novel came out in 1900. This American fairy tale has been recreated on stage and film, the most popular adaptation being the 1939 Wizard of Oz film (Ziaukus, Tim). The movie offered American citizens motivation and distraction during the Great Depressions because of its affiliation with youth, family, progress, community, and the American dream. Henry Littlefield