Summary Of Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire

Weeks and days just before Christmas shopping centers are overflowing with cars, lines are out the door, parents are pulling their hair out and all for what? In the episode, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” there is a sense of urgency for Christmas seen through almost every character. This episode shines a light on the un-talked about Christmas issue (the meaning of Christmas).

The controversy around the issue is that the true purpose of Christmas has been washed away with it being the consumer holiday now. Pope Francis strongly agrees that this is a consumer holiday (Sacredheart). In this short article Pope Francis gives the reader his “short guide to Christmas.” He says to not give in to the consumer holiday but to rather feast on your love ones’ joy and to give thanks to the Holy Father. Pope Francis kept calling Christmas the “feast of poverty,” which is when God did not dine with the intelligent, rich people but he rather gave himself to the “simple and the poor” (Sacredheart).
In the middle of his monologue (opening up the show) he is talking about commercialization in America, he then ties it with this Christmas issue. He starts off by acknowledging that Christmas is Jesus’s birthday and then exclaims, “…Jesus is the least materialistic person to ever roam the earth.” Saying how America turned it into a materialistic season and then these economists tell us how horrible we did this year (by not spending