Thinking of only yourself..

People that only take care of themselves in situations regarding help, greed, family, and friends make them not close as a friend, or nice with their words. Many people including me, don't always put themselves first..whereas they put family or friends before anything else. It makes them a bigger person in situations that can be hard to get out of and makes them able to be dependent on and know they have confidence. People can take care of themselves by putting others first, you may not get much but you'll be less selfish in the end and makes you a better friend.

A Christmas Carol

Bahumbug! Its Christmas time and all people are is merry around here, telling me to be merry to. Christmas time is a waste, with all the money spent on presents for rotten children, food thats cooked with lots of love, and songs..oh the songs! the blasted songs! being sung to make us smile and cheer. Clerks comeing and going asking for donations for familys in need that cannot have a lovely christmas with wonderful, warm cooked meals and presents under the tree. but i say..if they dont have money to spend, they dont need to think about anything of the sort. Christmas time..humbug! A time to for people to be merry and jolly and full. And a time for me to be alone!

The Pearl Symbolism

What we learned about the pearls symbolism to the main characters in the book (by its reactions) was that the pearl showed greed. When Kino and Juana were a normal family that lived in the village, who doctors would not talk to and town people named poor, found the pearl the size of an egg started having people talk to them. Many people in the book only cared about money in situations even regarding death, but when they heard that money was involved, they quickly changed character and acted as though they did really care. When Coyotito was stung by the scorpian, the doctor solemnly said he would only help if "he had money" but Kino and Juana did not have the patience to have their baby suffer in pain. Once finding the coin, everyone had started acting as though they had been friends with Kino and Juana for a long time. The doctor finally cared because he knew he could cheat Kino into giving him more money than normal, even by poisoning the baby.