Compare And Contrast Ernie's Christmas And The Gift Of The Magi

In "The Gift of Magi," Della and Jim sacrifice their prized possessions for each other and for love. Irony is represented in this story when Della and Jim both get each other gifts that mean a lot to each other. However, what they did not realize is that when Della cut her hair to to buy Jim a chain for his watch, she was unaware that Jim was going to sell his watch to buy her combs for her hair. The irony of their gift exchange is monumental as their unconditional love for one another took over for their own personal possession. Jim exclaims, “I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first." The magi which are described as wise men also signifies irony because Della and Jim's presents were more than wise. They represented that a gift does not need to be expensive to have value. A gift can be more meaningful just by the thought.

I felt that the movie of “A Christmas Carol” was very well performed and presented and that is why I believe the film version was better. Although the film version and the written version were very much alike they also were different. The film version was a lot differently set up and had a higher effect on the viewer than the written version. The film and the written version of “A Christmas Carol” were very much alike, but had some differences.

There are some people who don’t have it easy at all. They don’t have parents who will take care of them, but some have friends who care about them enough that they will help them. As details in A Christmas Carol, Thank You M’am, A Retrieved Reformation, show, significant changes in someone’s life can be caused by regret, kindness, and not judging people, . In a Christmas Carol Scrooge showed a lot of change between the beginning and end of the story.

The story was written by O’Henry in 1906. The story was centered around a seemingly poor couple who did not have enough money to buy each other the gifts that their significant other deserved. The story took place during Christmas. The Gift of the Magi is like a classic wisdom story in the bible. O’Henrys choice of title depicts symbolism between the three magi that brought gold, frankincense, and mur, to the baby Jesus and the gifts that Jim and Della had given to each other which mainly consisted of selfless love, Della’s hair and Jims pocket watch. This itself ties into the theme of his story. These gifts all entail the act

I feel Israel Horowitz’s adaption of “The Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” agrees with the research presented in both articles. I feel he agrees more with the CNN article than he does Science Daily. I also am inferring Dickens feels family is the thing that causes happiness. I will use characters from “The Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” and their characterization to support that some of Israel Horowitz’s characters agree with the Science Daily article and most with the CNN article.

The Grinch Who stole Christmas has been a hit movie for decades. It started off as a book and was made into a cartoon and a movie. While the book and the movie have some differences the fact that the grinch is known to hate Christmas, he steals the presents from everyone and the setting is the same in both the book and the movie make them somewhat similar. The first similarity between the book and the movie is that the Grinch has been known to hate Christmas. The book states, “ The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!” This is similar to the movie because in the movie the Grinch hates Christmas. When he was in school he was bullied around Christmas and he now hates all the Christmas activities.

In A Christmas Carol there are more similarities than differences. One of many differences is the people begging for money on the streets. One of the many similarities are the happiness of the music that is being sung by the people. The past, present, and future have some similarities but also some differences. In the play past says to take her hand (Dickens, 12) and in the movie she tells Scrooge to touch her robe (Video 1984).

How does one compare a play and a movie when both are based off of a book? The book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, has had many adaptations by aspiring producers and writers. One of these includes a 1984 adaptation under the same name starring George C Scott as the famed character Scrooge. Another of these adaptations is a live production; a play called A Christmas Carol as well, performed by the Palace Theatre in Manchester, New Hampshire. A play and a movie are very different of course; a movie can be shot over months while a play has to be performed live. These two shows had to use different techniques to tell the audience the story. Both of these focus on the central theme of the story; that the true meaning of christmas is giving,

The short story (The Gift of The Magi) was written by O. Henry. O Henry full name William Sydney porter, he wrote many short stories and one of his best-known stories is (The Gift of The Magi). The story is about a woman named Della who saves up for to buy her husband Jim to buy him a Christmas gift. She saves up and on Christmas day she has one dollar and eighty-seven cents to buy Jim a gift. she sells her hair and gets 20 dollars for it and buys Jim a gold watch chain for his nice gold watch he owns that has been passed down from generation to generation. Jim sold his watch to get Della the chair combs she loved. In the end the all loved one another and didn't care about the gifts. In the story (The Gift of The Magi) one literary theme is imagery they use biblical, visual, and tactile imagery.

In The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry (1906), Della is one of two main characters, the other being her beloved husband, Jim. On Christmas Eve, Della has saved very little for a present for Jim when she decides to sell her most prized possession, her long beautiful hair, for more money. After doing this, and buying the perfect gift,

Are you into the Christmas spirit where everyone is enjoying their time with their family, then the Christmas carol is the right book for you. Today I am going to be discussing about the similarities and the differences between the book and the movie in the book and the movie Scrooge was the main character they both had the part where Scrooge had an argument with his Nephew. In the movie and the book they had the same types of lessons learned. The difference is that in the movie Scrooge had a dog while in the book, it never mentions that Scrooge had a dog. Another difference is that in the Christmas Carol movie they sang while in the book they never sang. Another difference

The comparison O. Henry makes between the story of Jim and Della and that of the Magi is rather relevant as the Magi were the ones who are credited with being the origins of the “giving nature” of the Christmas season. In this story, we see a man and a woman so blinded by love that they are willing to make ultimate sacrifices for the happiness of the other. Similar to the Magi, Della and Tim put each other before themselves and through their generosity and considerable lengths they both went to achieve that generosity is something more admirable than any materialistic gift they could ever offer each other, thus making the uselessness of their gifts irrelevant.

The movie “A Christmas Carol” is better than the book. The book is a very descriptive christmas novel. The movie shows more feeling than the book did. The setting and lighting has set a better mood overall than the book.this is why the movie is better than the book.

Stories of love and sacrifice abound in literature. Perhaps one of the most well known stories among teens and adults is the tale of a poor, young couple struggling to find the perfect Christmas gifts for each other using their very limited means. They each manage to get what they think is the perfect gift for the other, but only accomplish this by selling a prized possession which effectively makes the new gifts impractical. This bittersweet narrative, “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, illustrates the moral idea that a person, motivated by nothing but love for another, can possess a willingness to give in a self-denying way which necessitates that the reader consider that wealth be measured by something more than having money

“My purpose is to show that in every human heart there is an innate tendency towards a respectable life; that even those who have fallen to the lowest depths in the social scale would, if they could, get back to the higher life…”(Rollins 7-8 ). O`Henry came up with this philosophy when writing his many different, entertaining stories. “The Gift of the Magi” was initially published in 1906 in O`Henry`s second collection of stories. “The Gift of the Magi” is a perfect story to illustrate how people do anything for the ones they love. The main characters each sell their most valued possession in order to buy the other the perfect Christmas present. They each bought the other something to complement their prized possession. Ironically, they had both sold their prized possession to get the other a gift.However, they bought gifts that were now useless to one another. Themes have some aspect of life, general truth, or moral that is shown throughout the story by the author. The themes in this short story really stand out to the reader. The way in which the two main characters demonstrate their selflessness for each other helps to emphasize the three major themes: poverty, love, and sacrifice.