A Christmas: A Short Story

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.

Happiness. Happiness is a state of well-being expounded by enjoyable or pleasant emotions ranging from fulfillment to immense amounts of uncontrollable delight. Happiness can be achieved in contrasting approaches depending on the type of person you are. Despite this, happiness is an extremely difficult jewel to find if you don’t look hard enough in a cave of complications in life. In Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, faces grueling memories and future experiences that will help determine if he, a crotchety, unkind man, will attain true ecstasy or not. Before the help of spirits, Scrooge thought the only possible way to reached his euphoria was all the wealth and riches he could accumulate. It is soon

Scrooge goes through an amazing journey in one night to see if he can change his fate at the end of his life. The Christmas Carol explains in a creative effective way for you to be happy, nice and giving person.. Scrooge’s doesn’t want to end with the chains weighing him down for eternity like Marley so he has to change his way that he is living his life. By analyzing Scrooge’s Transformation, Childhood Innocence, and Social Justice; it becomes clear that without these three themes the book would not have the same outcome or meaning.

In this paper I will discuss Social Theories such as Structural Functionalism, Conflict theory; with emphasis on Karl Marx’s early work and how it relates to the conflict theory and Symbolic interaction. I intend to define and discuss relevant sociological terms of these theories and how these theories could apply to my favorite holiday which is Christmas.

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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.

The Key to Happiness Does Not Lay in the Hands of Money but One’s Heart

Robert Butler used setting and tone to establish thematic meaning in the story “Christmas 1910” by placing the setting at a very cold, isolated, and depressing house. This led to the thematic meaning because the main character, Abigail, is affected by the setting. If the house wasn’t placed where it was the story would be completely different.

In this extract we are presented with Scrooge. From the beginning Scrooge is presented as a miser. In the extract we find out that he is an old, rude and ignorant man that doesn’t appreciate others around him. Dickens uses different language techniques to describe Scrooges appearance as clear as possible.

Each ghost marks an important step in Scrooge’s journey towards being a better person. Explain

As Scrooge lay’d before the phantom spirit, it said nothing the only speech that it had was his finger and arm. Scrooge was frightened amassed than ever of the last two spirits. Scrooge observed the phantom and did whatever he would do or say to the phantom approximative spirit. “Are you the spirit that which will be the things that will or maybe happen”. The spirit said nothing,Scrooge was impatient and haste the spirit to do something. The spirit jumped out and threw Scrooge to the stairs of the decrepit church. He saw two men talking about a man who has died upon Christmas day,”although it may be a cheap funeral” one man said,another spoke and furthermore aforementioned “I shall go…if lunch is provided, they all laughed .The moment faded away and got dark and moist as he glanced at the spirit, the spirit of the future pointed to a dark mans cab with shadowy horses that led Scrooge in a gunshot to a corner in town were dreadful,miserable people like Scrooge lived in.

In the movie a Christmas carol scrooge is visited by 3 ghost that showed his past,present and future.scrooge hated Christmas because be cause his partner Jacob Marley died on that very day seven years ago scrooge is also very heartless to the people who want to help him his nephew even invited him to dine with them for Christmas he said no his nephew loved Christmas but scrooge did not .

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.

Christmas is meant for joy and laughter, not injuries and pain. Each year there are hundreds of injuries that occur on the morning of December 25th. When the holiday approaches Americans love to get into the Christmas spirit. Each family celebrates Christmas with their own traditions and rituals that determine their holiday activities. I would have never thought that my family’s traditions for Christmas morning would help me shape my values.

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.