In one of the most moving scenes in the story, the ghost of Christmas present took Scrooge to watch the Cratchit family celebrate Christmas. Even know the Cratchit family were poor, they were all thankful just to be together and have a goose to feast upon. Bob Cratchit even showed his respects to Scrooge by making a toast. ‘He hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see. ‘God bless us everyone!’ Dickens is giving the Christmas image which is all about getting together and feasting.
Torn with what to do, she sought out her mate Edo. Era found him and begged for his love and understanding basking in his warmth she waited for his counsel. Edo looked to his love and saw her pain, and it angered him. The ruler of Fire told his beloved that he would help her be rid of these wretched children. He said he would cleanse her, his beloved in Fire.
When his “young fire” lit up, his first thought was to rub his feet to warm it up but he couldn’t. And now everything quickly become worse, he had to hold the matches on the tip of the fingers, clutched the match between his forefinger and his thumb, but in scratching the match he dropped it on the snow and couldn’t pick it up. We have another picture of the same Tom Vincent, a totally different new Tom because at the beginning of the journey he was carefree mind and happy but now in such circumstance like this we just see a lonely Tom trying in building a fire. He again set a fire to the remaining fragment of birch bark and he again quenched his “tiny flame” as his body was so chilled and his hands were shaking as he added the first twig to the flame. His first “young fire” was gone due to the snow, but now his “tiny flame” was quenched due to his losing control over his hands.
Rodriguez remembers hearing her predict the future and the presents they would one day purchase for their old parents. Rodriguez uses the above terms to show the drifting of his family and himself, which makes this Christmas different. Rodriguez exposes the thoughts of both his family and himself, with quotations and interjections of his own thoughts. Not only has the Christmas room grown “uncomfortably warm” but the conversation is headed that way as well. Comments such as, “We have to get
In the beginning of the book Montag is shown to love fire, it made him happy to see things burn. He didn't mean it to be a bad and destructive thing, but in a larger sense he identified fire with warmth and spirit. Another symbol I noticed was books burning. Books and ideas are burned from the mind. Bradbury sends his readers a warning, he warns us of what may happen if we stop expressing our ideas, and if we let people take away our books and thoughts.
It was Christmas Eve. Hearing his clerk wish his nephew a merry Christmas Scrooge said “my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas”. Dickens is trying to express how Scrooge could not see what all the fuss was about; his clerk was paid very badly and even though he did not have much was willing to spend money on one day. Also how Cratchit was looking forward to spending time with his family. Dickens also writes how Scrooge treated his Nephew Fred, badly, his nephew and only living relative is a very cheerful man who loves Christmas.
When I was young, I could think that people have gone mad since most of them used to do their shopping even before the sun would rise on Black Friday. It appeared humorous to me. In my viewpoint, stores should not remain open on this day. It should be the day when families and friends gather together as one and give thanks to God as they celebrate. Some retailers are always open on Thanksgiving Day, for instance, Wal-Mart and Best Buy amongst others (Millard n.p.).
Her father comes home late at night or gets lost and doesn’t come at all because of his drinking obsession. Her dad is regretful and is always promising change, but Sam can see through his hollow phony heart. Her mother repeatedly keeps believing her father and makes excuses for him, but Sam learns these words mean nothing and isolates herself from her father even more. She is constantly trying to protect her little brother named Luke from her dad because he doesn’t apprehend what is going on. She wants to reveal these secrets to someone, but she can’t tell her friends because she assumes that they will criticize her.
The Grinch understood Christmas to be about presents, Santa, and food, but he had forgotten that Christmas was also about love, giving, family, and the birth of Christ; “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! / ‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘doesn’t come from a store.’ / ‘Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!’” (Seuss). To repent from his actions of “stealing Christmas”, the Grinch brought back everything he took from the Whos; “He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light, / And he brought back the toys! And the food for the feast! / And he, HE HIMSELF!
This meant, cleaning, cooking, caring for the children and husband, etc. Similar to these expectations, the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper is forbidden from reading and writing. Her husband/ doctor, John, does not allow it because he thinks that putting her on the “rest cure” will help her come out of her depression or mental illness. Little does he know that not allowing her to write or read, forcing her to sneak and do it, is causing her to become more and more insane and obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. This is a prime example of a man repressing a woman’s rights.