In the chapter "christmas festivities," jacobs states that christmas is a holidy for "both with white and colored people" (119). It seems to suggest that christianity is universal, not separated or segregated based on color of skin, and it also seems that religion plays a central role in the lives of white and colored people, which religion is one connection that ties them together regardless of material or realistic differences. Also in one passage when Benny argues that Santa Claus was the one that bought him the new clothes, not his mother, Linda's reaction shows her yearning to reunite to her children, desperation of her current condition, and her sense of the result for the absence of motherhood.
Maggie Liu.
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Christmas festivities can also refer to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. In this insance, Alcott continuously uses the holiday to showcase the March family and their giving nature. It also represents a time when the family comes together and enjoys itself regardless of wealth or gifts. Each person takes it upon themselves to make the Christmas holiday more pleasant for everyone else. Thus, the Christmas festivities represent the very nature of the March family, a giving an caring nature and people who make due with what they have been given.
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