Friday, December 26, 2014

Day 22: A Charlie Brown Christmas

"That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."


You know that technically the Christmas Season starts on Christmas Day, right? Convenient for me, since life caught up with me and I barely made it through watching all 25 movies on my list, let alone blogging about them. So bear with me - we're in the home stretch! And it's time to give some love to Snoopy and the gang. 



Aside from being adorable in a sad puppy sort of way, you gotta love Charlie Brown for his sometimes-bleak, contemplative outlook on life - always searching & questioning. This time, he's pondering the true meaning of Christmas and is fed up with the commercialism of the season, like his little sister asking Santa to "just send money."

In effect, Charlie Brown is the sad little evergreen in a sea of pink aluminum trees. He's a purist and can't be bought by the "big commercial racket," as Lucy calls it. Linus tells us in the end: "I never thought it was such a bad little tree... Maybe it just needs a little love." Like the tree, Charlie Brown needed to be shown love to give love, and so found the answer to his question of what Christmas is all about.

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