The Nightmare Before Christmas

This makes the problems even worse. Jack wanted to be the leader. This raises the conflicts between Ralph and Jack. Things just go downhill from here.

What holiday is The Nightmare Before Christmas about? Some believe its a Christmas movie as were others say its a Halloween movie. I believe its a Halloween movie due how the movie plays out.

The Nightmare Before Christmas starts off in a town that the movie revolves around the whole movie, which is Halloweentown. In this town, they have a “Pumpkin King,” who is the ruler of the town, and his name is Jack Skellington. Jack begins to feel bored of the same old holiday they have every year, Halloween, and he soon stumbles upon trees that are decorated with symbols for each holiday. Jack is intrigued by the door that has a bright green christmas tree on it decorated with little painted-on ornaments. He opens the door and falls into the tree and gets transported into Christmasland. He explores the small land that he was pulled into, and then he returns home to tell his town about the place that he has just discovered. He tells them that they are going to make their own Christmas. The town teamed up and worked on making terrifying toys to bring “joy” to the children and to give Santa a year off. Jack sent 3 kids, Shock, Lock, and Barrel, to kidnap Santa and keep him safe while they were delivering presents to the kids of the world. Sally, who has always secretly admired Jack, told him she had a bad vision that stealing Christmas was a terrible idea, but Jack didn't listen. Jack finally got on his sleigh with his skeletal reindeer and rode off into the night delivering presents. Every house he went to called the police because the toys were trying to kill them and eventually the military was trying to shoot him out of the sky. When he was shot down, he realized Sally

Marxism is a view on society which critiques society, named after Karl Marx himself. To put it simply, Marxism basically exists on the idea which perpetrates the idea that there are societal classes, and major inequalities between the lower class and the upper class. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss is a clear example of how the Marxist theory can be applied to written works.

I believe that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie because the main events occur in Halloween town. For example, when the kids steal Santa, they take him to Halloween town to show Jack how clever they are to capture him. Santa stays in Halloween town so he can not continue Christmas. When the kids send Santa down the chute, he meets the Oogie Boogie man. He starts singing a song, which are important in this movie because they can give information about a character.

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.

The Grinch is a Prude, Obnoxious character which is due to traumatic events while growing up, now has a intense grievance towards Christmas. After this experiences he decided to run away and live on Mt. Crumpit. The only times he would come out of his cave would to steal food from the Who’s or just to annoy everyone. In the movie, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, the plot of this movie is essentially is that there is more to Christmas than just decorations and presents.

The meaning Dr. Seuss implied was focused on the Grinch's materialism. As mentioned by you, the Grinch's "moralistic superego" was the reason for correcting the Grinch's actions (Wong). However, I propose the Grinch's hatred spanned from his focus on materialism, which ultimately distracted him from the true meaning of Christmas.

I was shocked to see how Jack has become so vicious since his rise to power progressed drastically. I was also surprised to see how Jack’s attitude has changed extremely. This is because I didn’t expect Jack to use the kidnap strategy to force Sam and Eric to join his tribe. However if they didn’t agree to join, they would be maltreated or possibly killed by Jack. Thus, this shows how Jack is quite violent nowadays. With that being said, as his attitude changes, he position in the community rises as well. This is shown when he calls himself the Chief. As a result, in my opinion, I feel that the author is trying to convey the fact that Ralph has lost most of his power to Jack and that Ralph has barely any power left in the society now. Therefore,

Jack's first quality that makes jack a superior leader is he gets the kids, food. The most important thing to survive is a good supply of food, and jack was the first person to kill a pig to eat. Jack also shows the kids how to hunt for food. When all the other kids were goofing off playing in the water. Jack realized that they were going to all die if he didn't do something. Add a quote here about jack killing the first pig. As you can see this shows how much of a good leader he is because he took action into his own hands to save the kids.

Second, Ralph struggles to maintain his leadership; however, he keeps his leadership. “Jack was loud and active. He gave orders, sang, whistled, threw remarks at the silent Ralph ... and still Ralph was silent. No one, not even Jack, would ask him to move ... . So Ralph asserted his chieftainship ... . ... Jack was powerless and raged without knowing why” (Golding 102). Ralph’s determination he has to stay in command and that he is not going to get belittled by Jack. This effects Jack from being in charge. Jack gets angry and hungry for the leadership he

The poem “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” written by Dr.Seuss, is evidently Marxist-based. The underlying element for the theory of Marxism is “class struggle”. This is exemplified within the poem when Dr.Seuss outlines the distinction between the upper and the lower class. The “Who’s” are seen as the upper class, due to their wealthy lifestyle and an immense celebration during Christmas. On the other hand, the Grinch would be classified as the lower class, due to his lack of a home, food, and materialistic items. The Grinch believes that the Who community deserve to experience the way that he feels during Christmas time. In result, the Grinch attempts to ruin Christmas for the Whos by stealing all of their possessions. It is then brought

In 1843 Charles Dickens began working on what would become one of the most popular Christmas stories of all time. The story of A Christmas Carol has been remade in many different versions all with extreme popularity. Although they have all been inspired by the same story, some adaptations of the story are very different in terms of plot and dramatization. When it comes down to the actual story and the animated movie from 2009, a lot of differences and similarities can be noticed. Between the movie from 2009 and the excerpt from A Christmas Carol, there are some differences that can be pointed out.

Compare and Contrast Essay “A Christmas Carol” the Movie, and “A Christmas Story” the Play We’ve all heard of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and how his greed was scared out of him by the three spirits of Christmas. However, not everyone’s story about this festive classic is the same. One version of this tale is a play by Charles Dickens called “A Christmas Story”, is compared and contrasted to a movie called “A Christmas Carol” in the following passages.

“Ghastly,” she muttered under her breath. It was too scary for a Christmas character, but people loved to scare or to be scared, no matter the time of the year. Jack and Hector had made a grisly snow monster, and it had been three days already that the horned half-melted creature gazed at her whenever she passed across their courtyard…