Comparing Christmas And Christmas Time On The Frontier
Jessie Lee 5/13/13
English 9 Write About It
“Christmas” and “Christmas Time on the Frontier”
“Christmas” by Floyd Dell and “Christmas Time on the Frontier,” are both stories that tell of poor families on Christmas day. In “Christmas,“ the mom and dad never told their son they were poor. The son donated money to poor people at Sunday school, not knowing that he and his family were one of those “poor people” that people wanted to donate money to. He figured out towards the end that him and his family were poor, when he put all the pieces in his head together (why they only ate potato soup, avoided talking about Christmas entirely, mother was too ashamed to write name on donation envelope, etc.), which
English 9 Write About It
“Christmas” and “Christmas Time on the Frontier”
“Christmas” by Floyd Dell and “Christmas Time on the Frontier,” are both stories that tell of poor families on Christmas day. In “Christmas,“ the mom and dad never told their son they were poor. The son donated money to poor people at Sunday school, not knowing that he and his family were one of those “poor people” that people wanted to donate money to. He figured out towards the end that him and his family were poor, when he put all the pieces in his head together (why they only ate potato soup, avoided talking about Christmas entirely, mother was too ashamed to write name on donation envelope, etc.), which