‘The First Miracle’ by Jeffery Archer, ‘Memories Of Christmas’ by Dylan Thomas and ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens
'The First Miracle' by Jeffery Archer, 'Memories Of Christmas' by Dylan Thomas and 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens Turkey, Santa and presents are just a few of the things we associate with Christmas. There are also many stories that have been written about or set around Christmas-We have read three: 'The First Miracle' by Jeffery Archer, 'Memories Of Christmas' by Dylan Thomas and 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens. This is a summary of what these particular stories are about. 'The First Miracle' is about a young boy in roman times, living with his mother and father in Bethlehem, He goes to the market to do some shopping and on his way home he witnesses the birth of Jesus. When he gets home he experiences a miracle when his dad beats him because he doesn't believe the boys story, the boy is completely unharmed. 'Memories Of Christmas' is a collection of Dylan Thomas' own Christmas memories from when he was a child living in Wales all rolled into one slightly poem-like story. And 'A Christmas Carol' is about a mean wealthy man called Scrooge who pays his workers badly and doesn't like Christmas at all until one night (Christmas eve) three ghosts appear to him as predicted by another ghost (his dead business partner) They show him the past, present and future Christmases of his family and friends and the progress of a small cripple boy Tiny Tim. Scrooge is so moved
Bob Marley
Thesis Statement Bob Marley is known worldwide not only for creating and popularizing a certain style of reggae music, but also with using music to focus attention on the difficulties of black people around the world and on various social issues. While he was deeply involved with the context and culture of his country, Marley's musical influence was felt internationally. His style of music and protest lyrics was truly inspiring and touching. The lyrics and style of his music were also a comment on society and had enormous political and activist appeal. I am sincerely honored to be performing a research on this exemplary human being. I chose this particular person because it seemed extremely curious how influential he still is to our generation. Bob Marley has truly become a legend. Bob Marley: Bob Marley: A Cultural Icon, a Prophet, and a Legend. Bob Marley was a moral and religious figure as well as a major record seller internationally. He promoted world peace and served as a highly influential prophet. Bob changed people's perception of things regarding world poverty and dreadful issues like racism. His music was life transforming and relatable by those who suffer, love and long for salvation; In other words, every one of us. Aside from being an international artist, Bob Marley had big political aspirations in which he critiqued how his people were suffering by the
Charles Dickens describes 'A Christmas Carol' as'a ghost story for Christmas' - In what ways can the novel be considered a ghost story and why is it an appropriate tale for Christmas?
Charles Dickens describes 'A Christmas Carol' as 'a ghost story for Christmas'. In what ways can the novel be considered a ghost story and why is it an appropriate tale for Christmas? When people read or watch a ghost story, they have certain expectations of it. People would usually expect the story to be scary, have an eerie feel, and have appropriate, creepy settings such as a graveyard or derelict house. Most ghost stories use darkness to create the right atmosphere. There is usually a wide range of characters such as a hero/heroin, a damsel in distress or someone in danger, a victim, horrible and creepy characters that maybe outcasts and most obviously a ghost. People expect the story to have a scary opening, that draws them in into the story making them want to read on, but that doesn't give anything away. The opening often gives some background information on the characters. There is quite often a murder or disappearance to be investigated. Most ghost stories have a closed ending where the mystery is solved or the ghost is disposed of. Fear, suspense and foreshadowing are important features in the plot of a ghost story. All of these factors usually crop up in a typical ghost story. Older ghost stories tend to be text based where as newer ones can be found in other media, such as films. Many films and television series of ghost stories have been produced. The more
How Does Scrooge Change in "A Christmas Carol"?
How Does Scrooge Change in A Christmas Carol A Christmas carol is a moral story and focuses upon the redemption of the most hardened miser Ebeneezer Scrooge. In stave one he is presented as selfish, rude, angry and lonely. 'Warning all human sympathy to keep its distance.' he is thoroughly dislikeable. Through the attentions of Marley's ghost and the journey Scrooge takes through the past present and future Scrooge changes and becomes likable. He recovers his sense of joy in the world and this transforms all aspects of his life. How he reacts to people how he reacts to his setting, to Christmas and how he spends his money. It is a miraculous transformation. Dickens is saying that no matter how cruel, hard, old, bitter and unpleasant you are there is good in you and you can change. The idea of Scrooge’s change is born from the first ghost appearance that I consider to be a deus ex machina the dramatic and unrealistic plot only emphasises Scrooge’s humanity throughout the novel. Scrooge’s change can be observed through Bob Cratchit as Cratchit is foil to Scrooge his happiness and love for Christmas make’s scrooge’s coldness more visible. In ‘A Christmas carol’ Dickens shows scrooge as an evil, nasty man by using a long list of adjectives, he’s described with this sentence Oh! But he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching,
The editor of one edition of 'A Christmas Carol' wrote "A story so admirably told, the details of place, of time, of person so
The editor of one edition of 'A Christmas Carol' wrote "A story so admirably told, the details of place, of time, of person so dexterously made real for us" How does Dickens achieve this? How does he 'A Christmas Carol' a story which "No one could help but enjoy" In this essay I am going to be writing about the different techniques in which Dickens uses, and by using these bring people, place and time to life. Dickens cleaver use of techniques throughout this book really makes us feel as if we are actually there are selves. I think that the reason why dickens is so good at making this all seem so real to us is because when he was younger he grew up as a child in London himself, which I think would explain why this book has so much detail in it. A lot of what happens in this book most probably happened to Dickens as a boy as he used to be quite poor himself, an example of this is the cratchits Christmas dinner which I think was based on what Christmas used to be like for Dickens. Dickens motive for writing this book was so that he could make people aware of how awful it was to be poor, so he therefore wrote this in a story to try and get his point across. This is why Dickens is so good at using a range of different techniques which really create an image in are heads of what is really going on. I am mainly going to be focusing on the different techniques used in three certain
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A Christmas Carol Coursework "What is the message behind 'A Christmas Carol' and how does Dickens convey it?" Dickens wrote a Christmas Carol with the intentions of drawing reader's attention to poverty and to make people aware to it and to help. He did not write this book just because he wanted to write a ghost storey, even though it has some similarities. Dickens had very strong views on poverty, because of his personal experiences. When Dickens was 12 his father was sent to a debtors prison, which deeply affected him and therefore spurred him on to write books like David Copperfield but mainly A Christmas Carol because this was the book in which he actually put his point across and tried to open people's eye to the poverty in Victorian England. In this book Dickens very cleverly portrays that when people don't give to charity etc that they will be the ones suffering afterward for eternity. This is aimed at the selfish people so that they can see that if they like Scrooge, do not change then will be the ones to suffer. The message is portrayed mainly through the main character Scrooge who we follow throughout the book. Ebenezer Scrooge starts off in the beginning of the book as the miserly owner of a London counting house, a nineteenth century term for an accountant's office. His temperament is cold, hard, greedy, selfish and so much more, but there is no warmth, love or
Who or what is responsible for Scrooge's change of character in 'A Christmas Carol'?
Transfer-Encoding: chunked Who or what is responsible for Scrooge's change of character in 'A Christmas Carol'? ‘A Christmas carol’ written by the Unitarian and well respected Charles Dickens narrates the novella of the dark and exploitative nature of man whom embodies the story's main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, renowned as a cantankerous and callous Industrialist of the Victorian era. He exercises his parsimonious, gluttonous ways on Christmas Eve and intentionally refuses Christmas festivity. Indeed, A Christmas Carol is a severe and scathing diatribe on the social conditions of the time and the nature of man that exploits those conditions. Dickens therefore employs the four ghosts as a necessary measure to redeem the compassionate full humanity, and restore harmony to society. Christmas is seen as the best season to revolve this revolution, as it is the time Christ was born, which is symbolic of new life, and therefore a restoration or ‘rebirth’ of Scrooge. This is done over a series of ghosts, each fundamental to reconnecting the time synapses of Scrooge’s life, and therefore allowing his redemption. Dickens uses onomatopoeia to describe Marley's dramatic entrance, "The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound." This experience with Jacob Marley is full of suspense and tension and the use of the word "flew" indicates that the involvement of Marley is