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.
During the plague, they walked around with sweet-smelling flowers in their pockets and burned scented firewood to drive out the disease. 5. Leaving the door open behind you, keeping a peacock's feather, a lunar eclipse, spilling salt and a cat crossing your path (or any encounter with a cat for that matter as they are associated with witches- another superstition to be discussed later) brought about bad
Dr. Gerrit Kimsma also tells us about euthanasia fulfilling dreams Gerrit believes, “They can also focus on the things they really want to do, like taking a last trip, or making up a fight with someone in the family, or saying goodbye” (The Right to Die). I agree with Dr. Kimsma because when someone has a dream, it makes life easier for them. It puts them at ease if they accomplish that goal or dream before they die. In the novel, Lennie has a dream to tend the rabbits on their farm. Before George performs euthanasia he talks to Lennie by the Salinas River about how their life is going to be on their dream farm.
The dance brought back customs, rituals and the way of life that the Indian tried so hard to hold on to. The vision of the Ghost Dance was that the white man would disappear from the Earth after a natural disaster and the dead Indian would be brought back and the old customs would live on. The religion promised to bring this and other beliefs to realities they had to dance, chant and pray. They also had to reject alcohol, mourning, fighting. This movement was peaceful.
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.
Some people do not enjoy the story during Christmas. They think it is a very unhappy story. But Christmas is the perfect time to read the story. Christmas is the perfect time to learn about yourself and change for the better. The following paragraph will explain what the three ghosts showed Scrooge.
The ghost’s >1800 brothers symbolize the town’s population. 3. The night before, Scrooge’s attitude was repulsive towards going on a trip to the past but now was eager to learn and profit from the chance to see the present situation. 4. The weather may be cold and gloomy but the spirit of the people during Christmas overcomes the climate with their cheerfulness and their bright happy hearts!
To protect against the cold he had been wearing no fewer than eight layers of clothes. The faithful crowded into the church to pray for his soul but, as the body grew cold, the lice living in the multiple layers of clothes began crawling out. The chronicler records the scene: "The vermin boiled over like water in a simmering cauldron, and the onlookers burst into alternate weeping and laughter." The manuals of etiquette had prescribed no proper behaviour for such a problem. By the 16th century, however, there were rules laid down for the gentry on how to deal with lice at the table.
Initially, Ryan and his group were kept out of the camp, where it was learned that its members were practicing for religious songs and dances. This trip ignited Jones’ own fear of a government conspiracy that was out to get him, later that night; the Ryan delegation attended a reception in the pavilion. While the party received a friendly reception, Jones said he felt like a dying man and ranted about government conspiracies and martyrdom as he decried attacks by the press and his enemies. Two Peoples Temple members, Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby, made the first move for defection that night. In the pavilion, Gosney passed a note to Don Harris (mistaking him for Ryan), reading "Dear Congressman, Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby.
No one was left untouched. A popular children’s song “Ring around the rosy”, depicts terrible times. Ring around the rosy: rosary beads give you God's help. A pocket full of posies: used to stop the odor of rotting bodies which was at one point thought to cause the plague, it was also used widely by doctors to protect them from the infected plague patients. Ashes, ashes: the church burned the dead when burying them became too laborious.