Descriptive Essay About Christmas

In the year 2008, I received my first elf for Christmas. Her name was Snowflake and she appeared with my brothers’ elves and my mom’s old childhood elf, Duende. She’s so beautiful with her velvet green dress, red and white striped tights with green velvet elf shoes with tiny bells. Every year after Thanksgiving, my elves would arrive. I have about twelve elves because I take such good care of them that Santa sends me his elves. Our family elves are extremely mischievous and do tricks every day during the Christmas Holidays. It is my favorite time of the year. Every morning as soon as I wake up, I run downstairs to see what mischievous things my elves have done. They are very smarting, witty and extremely creative. Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love Christmas carols, decorating the house with my mom, baking cookies for Santa, the smell of pine from the Christmas tree and opening presents Christmas morning.

Bea looked out the window again then back at Astrid, “Let me tell you a story about me and your grandpa...”

Christmas Carol How does Charles Dickens convey the character of scrooge in the early pages of a Christmas Carol? Charles Dickens, is best known for his host of distinctively cruel, repugnant characters. His father was sent to a Debtors prison taken his son Charles with him

When the door slid open, a much-needed breeze wound through the room, cooling them off. “Yes, sir.”

In the early hours between dawn and morning, Genie busied herself with cleaning the house and setting up the dusty decorations. She prepared the turkey, mashed the cranberries, and mixed the stuffing. By the time the first drop of sunlight filled the kitchen, she had nearly finished with the meal. All that was needed was the fabled Cinnacorn Pie - her father’s favorite.

“Last week, I turned one hundred and seventy-two,” he smiled at their shocked faces and chuckled, “That’s the reaction I normally get.”

“Well I was going to come but then I had to go and help Grandpa with cleaning… who is very, very old.”

Sometimes a non-fiction book can have relative applications and stories in it, but a fiction book can achieve the same purpose with adding some exaggeration to further support the meaning of the story. The Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, is a fiction story, but it contains a lot of meaning to the outlook on life. The battle between the flesh and the soul adds emphasis on the morals of the human being. Developing the story is an important aspect as well, whether the development is in the conflict, within the characters or the resolution. Inside the conflict, the conflict can either be internal or external. External being the fight between two men, and internal being the conflict within yourself. The Conflict in The Christmas Carol

"Coming right up." Miss. Harriet smiled down at me, before she snipped off the two roses and handed to them, "Tell your dad I said

"My daughter is five and my son is one, along with our new puppy that eats anything shes finds on the floor and a cat."

“Okay. Now, I have something to tell you. This may come as a shock to you, but you are not 13 anymore. You’re 18.”

"I'm young but I do a pretty good job at what I do, ma'am." I looked up at her as I bit the inside of my cheeks.

"It is not true!" The elderly man said, taking her by the shoulders. "You have an aunt. She's your family. Well, maybe I'll be your uncle, as a bonus."

Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. I love seeing the shinny Christmas lights that decorates my street and the sound of fresh fallen snow on the ground. Christmas reminds me of family, the laughter and loved we shared, and the gifts we gave to each other. My house on Christmas became the center of my joy.

“Girl, aint no way nothing over there would fit me,” she sniffed. “I’m a junior 15 at the most.”