The Spirit of Christmas
The Christmas Spirit Characters- Julia Dowling The Visitor ''Jack'' Beth Dowling Aunt Rosemary Uncle Bernie Paul Dowling Melissa Rosen Father John Brennan Matthew Harris Auther- Fredrick Stroppel
Plot- In the Play ''The Christmas Spirit'', written by Frederick Stroppel the
story starts with the main character Julia in her favorite chair listening to
classical music which makes her become very sleepy. Fast asleep the music
quickly becomes louder, and goes into a news announcement that quickly
wakes her, in the report they tell of a earthquake that killed three hundred
people in Pakistan. Julia feels empathy for the lives lost, and heads up stairs
to bed, she claps her hands twice for the lights to go out, they do but only
upstairs, she tries again, and the lights downstairs go off but upstairs remains
on. Julia goes downstairs to see the problem then out from behind the tree is a man. This announces why he is there, and for whom, he states that he is there
to take Julia who is going to die in three minutes. She later on manages to strike a deal with death, and asks him, ''have you ever celebrated Christmas'',
he responds with ''No, I’ve never celebrated anything''. So then she invites him to
dinner with her family tomorrow, in order to extend her life time. On Christmas
Day she has her family members rush over to have dinner, ''Aunt Rosemary,
Beth, Uncle Bernie, Father John, and Melissa Rosen, and Matthew Harris
all family that Julia hasn't seen in a long time. When Death arrives he prefers
to take on the name Jack Frost, he also brings along a suicide victim, Matthew
Harris. They all go; throughout the day with the family finding out things about
each other, and what Jacks true identity is. Everyone in the family attempts
to throw their life to death to trade for Julia, but death wont allow it so he allows
her to live until
Plot- In the Play ''The Christmas Spirit'', written by Frederick Stroppel the
story starts with the main character Julia in her favorite chair listening to
classical music which makes her become very sleepy. Fast asleep the music
quickly becomes louder, and goes into a news announcement that quickly
wakes her, in the report they tell of a earthquake that killed three hundred
people in Pakistan. Julia feels empathy for the lives lost, and heads up stairs
to bed, she claps her hands twice for the lights to go out, they do but only
upstairs, she tries again, and the lights downstairs go off but upstairs remains
on. Julia goes downstairs to see the problem then out from behind the tree is a man. This announces why he is there, and for whom, he states that he is there
to take Julia who is going to die in three minutes. She later on manages to strike a deal with death, and asks him, ''have you ever celebrated Christmas'',
he responds with ''No, I’ve never celebrated anything''. So then she invites him to
dinner with her family tomorrow, in order to extend her life time. On Christmas
Day she has her family members rush over to have dinner, ''Aunt Rosemary,
Beth, Uncle Bernie, Father John, and Melissa Rosen, and Matthew Harris
all family that Julia hasn't seen in a long time. When Death arrives he prefers
to take on the name Jack Frost, he also brings along a suicide victim, Matthew
Harris. They all go; throughout the day with the family finding out things about
each other, and what Jacks true identity is. Everyone in the family attempts
to throw their life to death to trade for Julia, but death wont allow it so he allows
her to live until