How The Grinch Stole Christmas Analysis

The story How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss uses similar ideas, as the Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol. These include similar themes, conflict and character types. A Christmas Carol By: Charles Dickens. The story A Christmas Carol takes place in London in the 1800s at Christmastime. The main characters are Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas past, the Ghost of Christmas Future and the ghost of Christmas Present. The three ghosts show Scrooge what Christmas is about. How the Grinch Stole Christmas By: Dr. Seuss. This story takes place in the imaginary town of Whoville. The main characters Sydney Lu Who and the Grinch. The main conflict in this story is the Grinch and how he tries to steal Christmas. A Christmas Carol has become
Scrooge had just returned home from work and he was getting in bed. “The same face: the very same. Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights and boots...How now!”(Dickens Pg.11). He was so surprised when Jacob Marley appeared. He was scared for his life. Yet the Grinch gets invited to go to the holiday ceremony in Whoville. When he goes down there he thinks it is a hoax because they don't give him his reward right away...So he burns down the town's Christmas tree. In short these two types of conflict were different but they were all very significant to the
Seuss) drew upon the character types, conflicts and themes from a Christmas Carol while still rendering the material new. First the two character types of the Grinch and Scrooge are not very different from each other. Next the two types of conflict are very different, but they end the same by it changing of how they feel about christmas. Last of all, the themes in these stories are different from each other but they both are in the same area of each other. The story of A Christmas Carol is in one of the best books ever written, and still see examples of it in some stories