Decent Essays Scrooge's Transformation in Dickens' A Christmas Carol Essay The theme of this novel is to look at the good you do in life and how it carries over after your death. The moral of the book is; "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even righ...
Now of course one may argue about the particularities of the model Campbell proposes, such as whether it should or shouldn’t include the “stages” Campbell describes, or whether the patterns Campbell finds truly point to something bigger or are just coincidence. There is some subjective interpre...
You can see some of these elements in Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Groundhog’s Day”, “Back to the Future” series, “12 Monkeys”, “The Terminator,” series, etc. What I was thinking about specifically is why the subject is so interesting and wh...
Thirty-two years ago,The Muppet Christmas Carolpremiered, directed by Brian Henson (in his feature film directorial debut) from the screenplay by Jerry Juhl. Based amazingly faithfully off that beloved story, it starred Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge with a multitude of Muppet performers, to ...
“For where I found truth, there found I my God, who is truth itself.” St. Augustine,Confessions Saint Joseph, Terror of Demons, Pray for Us The Time is Fulfilled A Christmas Missive “And do this because you know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our...
So, in the end,A Christmas Carolmay well have a Christian message, but if so, it’s a pretty wide definition of “Christian,” so wide as to be ultimately meaningless. Rather, its message is a critique of industrial capitalist society, subtle enough to co-exist with that society without...
A classic definition of social inequality comes from the sociologist Max Weber, who wrote that there are three fundamental types of inequality. The first is based in the marketplace and is “social class”. The second, and more important distinction, is
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields And this book was a kind gift from Debra – one of those authors I have long intended to read, and now I have one of her books on my shelf ready to go. Show Boat by Edna Ferber When Claire/Captive Reader made a guest appearance on a recent podcas...
It was a Christmas when shoppers passed by expensive silks in favor of more practical gifts. 这是一个购物者不理会昂贵的丝绸衣服而热衷于更实用礼物的圣诞节。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 There was a terrible sadness in her eyes... 她眼神中流露出深深的悲伤。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 He did have a real kno...
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede: Carol at Reading Ladies put this one on my radar. She called it one of her favourites of the year and since I’d recently read The Only Plane in the Sky, this seemed like a good companion read. I’ve read this one too, just finishe...