Christmas Carol, Frosty The Snowman, And How The Grinch Stole

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Christmas time only only comes around one time a year, or does it? Is Christmas time a season or a state of mind? How could a season make someone so entirely joyful or bismal? Christmas is the day that holds all time together (Smith). The season all by itself might only come around one time every year, but the holiday feeling is more than just a season. The three literature books that truly display the true meaning of the holiday season are Christmas Carol, Frosty the Snowman, and How The Grinch Stole Christmas. In these three fictional christmas tales, the make believe characters each experience different feelings during the holiday season. Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character in Christmas Carol always has a sense of mourning over the holiday …show more content…

His role in his story is showing the group of kids who created him the true meaning of friendship. In the relationship he builds with these kids he willingly gave up his life in order to let others live (Starr). Although the conclusion to the story was not the happiest of endings Frosty shows another meaning of happiness, that being that he was at his happiest when he died in order to give life to others. The bond that Frosty had built in the children was something that death could not take away. It was a moral to the children of what a true hero is and how true happiness is found in authentic …show more content…

During the Christmas season he is always trying to cover up his insecurities by making other suffer during the season he mourns. He only has one companion in his life and it is his dog, Max (Esposito). He hates everything about the season and people celebrating. "The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! (ThoughtCo). Around the town of Whoville the name of the Grinch is despised and is not brought up. He is notoriously known as a hated figure around Christmas. To the Grinch Christmas is a time that drives him insane because he hates people being happy because of his state of misery. The Grinch is in so much depression that he isolates where he lives from everyone else. He lives on top of a mountain in a cave that no one would ever dare to come near. Due to his mourning he decides to make everyone else pay for his state. On Christmas night he takes out his isolation on the town of Whoville by taking all of their gifts and presents away. "Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason (ThoughtCo.)." No one knew what led to the Grinch's mourning but some thought it may be his Heart was two sizes too small

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