Even with the guide and all the research and such included in it, I am finding it hard to figure out what I should blog on.
The story of "A Christmas Carol" has been told, retold, made into a movie and play, retold a few more times, had the movie remade, told again, had the remake modernized, and so on and so forth. The point is, there isn't anything about this story that hasn't been analyzed, broken down, or theorized about by thousands upon thousands of people before me, and will likely continue to do so long after I'm done here.
I'm trying to think of something insightful to say about the book, but the story seems rather straightforward to me. An old miser is shown the error of his ways by divine intervention. So maybe three spirits that may or may not be figments of Scrooge's imagination aren't quite divine intervention, but you get the picture.
The morals brought to attention by the spirits are not new concepts to me. I am aware of the fact that charities are necessary in order to help the unfortunate lower class. I'm constantly pelted with people encouraging me to be more sociable and less solitary. I understand the value of education and the danger of ignorance presented by the Spirit of Christmas Present, as demonstrated by my pursuing my own education rather than remaining ignorant in incompetent public schools. All of these are things I knew about already, and having them repeated doesn't really cause me to think about them more.
After realizing that there were no new concepts for me to think about, I am forced to wonder why this book made the list. I'm usually rather generous, and I am far from ignorant. Admittedly I do have a bit of a solitary nature, but I'm far from being or even becoming another Scrooge. Whatever solitary tendencies I have can easily be explained by the fact that I'm in the middle of my teenage years. Combine that with the fact that my social experiences from most of my childhood were unpleasant, to put it lightly, and I'm actually pretty sociable overall.
So I have now somehow managed to create a blog post for a book about how there isn't much to blog about. I'm not sure if I should be proud that I salvaged my situation or disturbed that I'm this good at beating around the bush and expanding what should be a one or line statement into several paragraphs.
There isn't really much else for me to say. I'd just like to point out that the time I received and read "A Christmas Carol" is coincidentally the beginning of the Christmas season, my mom probably planned this, but it's fun to believe otherwise.
I guess it's time for me to wrap things up and pray for insightful comments to save this post from patheticness.
Happy Holidays!
What made this book remade, remade, remade, made into a movie and remade some more?
ReplyDeleteIn what ways are you charitable? Do you think it's important to be charitable?
I don't actually know why this book was so popular, it really wasn't all that interesting.
ReplyDeleteAnd you of all people should know how charitable I can be, you;re the one who always gets upset when I tip people too well or tip them when they shouldn't be tipped at all because that's how they make most of their money. I am always willing to offer help to those who need it. To top it all off I've worked at your office for 4 months without pay while there is no many to pay me, if THAT'S not charitable nothing is.
I do believe being charitable is important. If everyone was like me and tried to be kind and helpful to others despite any selfish inclinations then world peace would be a feasible idea. The OWS movement would never need to happen since the top percent of our country wouldn't be so corrupt and greedy. Our government would actually live up to it's "for the people, by the people" claim. Countries wouldn't be trying to secretly develop nukes to turn the USA into a smoking crater, and terrorists wouldn't feel the need to bomb us anymore.
That might be overstepping the definition of "charitable" a little bit, but being charitable falls in line with being other things that would make the above paragraph reality.