In the movie, when he is visited by the ghost of Christmas Future, he runs away from the ghost and shrinks while running into a drain pipe. In both the book and play, this does not happen. In the play, Scrooge is a lot more flirtatious with the maid than in the book and movie. Another difference is that in the play and book, the date that he dies isn’t shown on his gravestone. In the movie, it shows the date of December twenty-fifth on his gravestone.
Callie Greene #8793 Mrs. Blandford English 8, period 3 13 January 2011 A Christmas Miracle: The Gift of Influence Everything that surrounds us, every memory in our grasp, and every instant of our existence influences us in some way whether the effect is positive or negative. People can choose to accept the influence bestowed upon them in an enthusiastic manner, or they can angrily and shyly accept with a cold hand. In the novel, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge, is a “lonely, covetous, Christmas-loathing man.” It is not until three ghosts come along to change him for the better and teach him the error of his ways that he is influenced to be a kinder, more generous person. The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, each, in his own way, influence Scrooge to change his miserly, odious, self-centered way of living. First off, the Ghost of Christmas Past influences Ebenezer to change his avaricious ways for the better.
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!
OREO Cookie If I could tell you something about my life, it would be: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. Now you may think that statement is a little farfetched, but it really happened I was riding my bike near my house when I ran over a rock and the bike tipped over. I just laid there for a few seconds. Maybe I was in shock from hitting the pavement so hard, but I remember noticing how beautiful the clouds were in the sky. I did not hear the approaching vehicle.
Satire Graphic Organizer for Option B Work Title: The Simpsons Season 22 Episode 8 The Fight Before Christmas Author / Creator: Matt Groening Publication Date: 2010 Historical Context: The writers were making fun of all the Christmas novels and movies at Christmas time. Plot Summary: Marge easily gets in the holiday spirit, but it's a little more difficult for the rest of the family. After the family goes to sleep before Christmas morning, each of the kids has a holiday-themed dream. What is being mocked in this piece? Human Institutions: • The South Pole • A Train • Santa • World War 2 Human Weaknesses: Revenge Bart lacks the Christmas spirit because he hasn’t gotten what he wanted for so he plans to shoot Santa.
A Christmas Carol By: For my deaf event I thought I might go to a Christmas carol being that it’s a classic and a great theme of Christmas, giving and receiving and just the spirit of it. I brought my friend Molly V. because she’s usually into going to ASL events with me and that was cool. A Christmas carol is about this guy named Ebenezer Scrooge- scrooge for short played by J.C. Cutler and he’s really sour when it comes to Christmas and just really mean, cruel and pretty negative and one night he gets visited by like three ghosts from Christmas past, present and future and they pretty much show him what’s happened, what’s happening and what could happen if he continues to be an ornery mean person and so he changes his ways and becomes more compassionate and empathetic towards other people in the end. It was a great musical and had a lot of meaning and really got you into "the season" with Christmas and the many holidays coming up and such. Also it took place at such a gorgeous place, the Guthrie!
Leper sends a telegram to the boys telling them he has escaped and needs help. He also mentions he is at Christmas location, which refers to the place you celebrate the holiday at, home. Gene then goes to Leper’s house and sees he is not the same. Leper explains he would have gotten a section eight discharge, which is for the “Funny Farm candidates” as Leper says. “You’re screwed for life, that’s what a Section Eight discharge means” (Knowles 145).
Percy resorts to a rock loaded snowball to make the final blow on Dunstan, but when Dunstan gets out of the way, the pregnant Mrs. Dempster and her husband Amasa are walking by, and Mary gets hit in the head. She is forced into premature labor, and begins her decline to insanity. As a young boy, Dunstan is especially affected by the snowball incident because he is naïve and takes it upon himself to feel guilty about Mrs. Dempster’s premature labor since Percy apparently does not feel guilty about it. Dunny says that he was “alone in [his] guilt, and it tortured [him].”At one point, Dunny consciously faces the fact that the reason he is so guilty is because Percy refuses to accept responsibility: “His brazen-faced refusal to accept responsibility seemed to deepen my own guilt which had now become the guilt of concealment as well as action.” Dunny says here that he feels guilty for not telling anyone who hit Mrs. Dempster, and also because he was directly and actively involved in the incident whether he had ill intentions or not. Dunny says: “I was contrite and guilty, for I knew the snowball had been meant for me, but the Dempsters did not seem to think that.” He is reflecting on the fact that even though nobody else thought it was his fault,
One ongoing theme throughout the play is that every character seems to change the direction of the conversation by mentioning the tree (which is a dramatic device and also symbolism). On page 7 Frank says, ‘Hey, what happened to your tree?’ On page 10 Lydia says ‘Oh, did the wind get your tree?’ this is significant because the tree that blew down was Larry’s tree. It is clear that Keller is trying to erase Larry’s death from his mind because he knows deep down that he is partly responsible by allowing his company to ship out faulty parts. So the purpose of the multiple references to the tree link to the theme of guilt. Keller is trying not to let his past haunt him, but he can’t escape from it.
The struggle they face at Devon in the summer of 1942 force them to grow up and lose the innocence of their youth. Gene states “I couldn’t help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal.” (Knowles 25) Each turn of the page takes you deeper into Gene’s world from when he bent the branch while Finny was jumping off the tree into the river, to the fall of Finny down the marble steps. Each of these tragic events limits the athletic ability of Finny. The story draws you in like a kid to a candy bar and you feel Gene’s agony as he realizes his jealousy of Finny is unfounded. The author shows Gene’s growth throughout the novel as he tells Finny that he is the one who shook the branch and pushed him out of the tree and caused his leg to break.