Malcolm's Christmas comparison with what Jess had experienced in the novel.

Assignment 3: Blogsite / Appendix 1.6a

Part b)
Malcolm's Christmas celebration:
A week before Christmas, my family would go out to a shopping mall to buy presents for one another. Of course, we would have a budget and buy it separately so that we do not know what present we will be getting.

When we got home, we would go to our rooms to wrap up the presents that we bought and put it under the Christmas Tree as our house would be decorated by then and until the day of Christmas that we can open the presents up.

On the day of Christmas itself, we would unwrap all the presents to find out what we have got. It may be disappointing sometimes as you did not get your desired presents but its the thought that counts and as my family like this festival, we would invite people to come over to our house to spent Christmas together and everybody would be happy and cheerful on that day. Christmas carols would be sung and games would be played. After all that, we would have a sumptuous dinner together with my friends and family. Then we would be free to do whatever we wanted to do for the rest of the day.

Jess's Christmas celebration:
A month before Christmas, Jess's older sisters were impatient to buy presents for their boyfriends. As Jess's family was poor, they did not have much money to buy a nice present for each other.

On Christmas day, Jess tried to think something to get Leslie but finds it hard to find anything good enough, but at last, Jess finally thought of something to get Leslie - the free puppy that was along the road in one of the shops he passed by when going home from school. He asked Leslie to meet him at the castle stronghold at Terabithia where he would give the dog to Leslie as a Christmas gift. Leslie was delighted when she received the present and in return, she gave Jess a box of watercolours and that overwhelmed Jess as he liked drawing alot. When he went home, he went to celebrate Christmas with his family and his father got him a cheap race car set which his father had spent more money than he would ever want to spend for Jess's Christmas present.

In the end, Jess felt that Christmas spirit he lost again thanks to Leslie.

p.s. jeff hardy rocks!