Macarena's Story Of A Christmas: A Family Tradition

Imagine a staged production of A Christmas Carol set in 1843. See the stage set in the exact time it was written by Charles Dickens. The foggy, crowded streets abuzz with carolers and shoppers, the children staring wide eyed into the shops and bakeries. Hear the bells ringing as a round of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” fills the gaslit streets with joy. As a child, going to see A Christmas Carol was one of my fondest Christmas memories. To witness Scrooge 's’ transformation from a mean, greedy old man to a joyous, loving benefactor always left me smiling and filled me with hope.

The second of nine children, Charles John Huffman Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 to John and Elizabeth Dickens. Due to unstable family conditions, Dickens went through a difficult childhood filled with worries that far transcended an average boy (biography.com). It didn’t stop him from anything, Dickens found peace and comfort through the use of his imagination. In 1822, the Dickens family moved to a poor neighborhood in Camden Town, London. By then the family’s financial situation had quickly grown and John was eventually sent to prison for debt in 1824. At age of twelve, Dickens’ sister Fanny was attending an expensive music school which then led Dickens to work at a Factory where he spent eight to ten hours a day doing manual labor

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It is curious that as children, humans have the ability to observe and remember details of specific situations and instances yet lack the ability to describe them. Truman Capote, as a grown man, took advantage of his vivid memories and composed the short work, "A Christmas Memory." The story begins in late November, a month symbolic of all the years gone by that Capote could remember beginning preparations for Christmas fruitcakes.

Other traditions in the family of Macarena she did not like was that for the Christmas dinner all had to be elegant because it was an important date. Macarena’s style was wearing jeans. Macarena’s mom had already bought a dress for the dinner event, but she did not know about it. Christmas day arrived and it was a labyrinth in the house of Macarena. Few hours left for the whole family coming. Macarena mom’s was stressed out, so they could not speak to her. The Christmas dinner started, the uncles, cousins and grandparents came. The house was full people, had laughter and happiness was throughout the house.

marriage and gender roles. In the case of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wants readers to see how living a life that radiates love and promotes happiness is better than being selfish and living a miserable life, and how past circumstances heavily influence who we are as people. The two messages both authors want readers to take away from the story, although different, achieve the takeaway through the utilization first person narration.

Unable to find the book they Decided to read it by Memory. reading The Night Before Christmas

Have you ever watch a Christmas carol because I know I have we watch in school in class so we could do this paper on it. I hop you like it because I am going to tell you about this man that get's a visit by a ghost he was so scared he didn't know what to do. the ghost said that he was going to see 3 ghost and so he run and in to his bed bed and try to hid what would you do if that happened to you? Now stay tun for more defiles."The spirit then shows Scrooge the day when his beloved younger sister Fan picked him up from the school after repeatedly asking their cold, unloving father to allow his return, as she joyfully claims that he has changed and is now kinder than he was.The Ghost of Christmas Past is the first of the three spirits (after

One day a little girl that lived in the neighborhood had been murdered. So they can’t go trick or treating alone and they had to go in a group with a parent

In Truman Capote’s short story “A Christmas Memory” imagery and symbolism are used by the author to show that friendship has no age limit. Truman uses very vivid details and many different types of figurative language to show his theme ,which is that friendship has no age. An example of symbolism is, “As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven” (6). After getting the news of his friend’s death, he goes outside and almost expects to see kites. In this example of symbolism, the author shows us how deep a bond Buddy and his friend have by showing us a glimpse of Buddy’s mind and how his heart is going to heaven with his friend. Furthermore, the author uses some imagery when he gives us a vivid description

Katherine O'Connor (known as K.O.) adores her five-year-old twin nieces; and strongly objects to her sister's plans to dispense with Christmas. Zelda is following the theories of child psychologist Wynn Jeffries, author of The Free Child and, as it happens, K.O.'s neighbor. K.O. is particularly horrified by his edict to "bury Santa under the sleigh," and she's out to prove that Wynn and his ideas are full of snow. He's not going to ruin her nieces' Christmas! Too bad the guy's so darned attractive!

Christmas is the most important day of the year for her. Her family gives her everything on her list, or else. This Christmas, the family has had enough, and refuses to get what she requests. After screaming and yelling at her parents and adopted sister, Michelle Marley, she storms into her room and slams the door.

When Melinda started her first day of high school, she suffered from peer pressure with her best friend- who had just left her, and everyone had hated her because she ruined a party during summer break by calling the police. Melinda knew that no one knew the truth, but she was afraid to speak out about it. Laurie Anderson used the allusion of Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer

There’s been a lot of improvements in the band as a whole in the past semester. I remember first seeing and playing the Christmas music. Obviously, as the first time playing it, it didn’t sound so clean. That first time compared to how we did at the concert has been highly improved. In the beginning of the semester there were so many accidentals I probably screwed up, and there were probably times I didn’t notice the time signature change so I miscounted measures of rests. By the time of the concert I hadn’t made many mistakes in the music, at least way less than before. The band as a whole sounded better by the time of the concert. Overtime we were able to clean up all the pieces from the jumbled up mess we heard the first time playing these

I think Christmas has always been one of my favorite holidays. Maybe because of the special atmosphere that you can feel everywhere, in shops, restaurants , pubs and even streets, where you can hear the magical carols, or maybe it's because of its religious background, but what I can tell you for sure is that I can't think of anything more exciting than the image of the entire family preparing the Christmas Tree or fixing the Christmas dishes.