what is the theme of the story "the gift of the magi"?
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Putting the happiness of the one you love before your own.
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I think I know which one you're talking about. Is it by the TransSiberian Orchestra? If so, they have their "Christmas Canon" which has the word christmas held out in a high pitched manner. Hope that helps!!
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Great novel of time-travel and history called\nA Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book--Time travel with the Kagan's Kids to 10th Century Kiev, "When the Jews of Eastern Europe Had No Hope Other Than the Grace of the Almighty, The Coming of the Meshiach, Or the Arrival of the Khazars."\nISBN 0-595-38159-6
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Here's a beautiful one. This is called a Christmas Prayer and it's by Robert Louis Stevenson. He's also the author of Treasure Island! \n\nA Christmas Prayer\nby Robert Louis Stevenson\n\nLoving Father, \nHelp us remember the birth of Jesus,\nthat we may share in the song of the angels,\nthe gladness of the shepherds,\nand worship of the wise men.\n\nClose the door of hate\nand open the door of love all over the world. \nLet kindness come with every gift\nand good desires with every greeting.\nDeliver us from evil by the blessing \nwhich Christ brings,\nand teach us to be merry with clear hearts. \n\nMay the Christmas morning \nmake us happy to be thy children,\nand Christmas evening bring us to our beds\nwith grateful thoughts,\nforgiving and forgiven, \nfor Jesus' sake.\n\nAmen.
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Christmas Story\nHome Alone..Home alone lost in new york..\nFrosty the snowman\nRudolph the rednose reindeer\nTeddy bear christmas\nMiracle on 34th stree *the one with dillan*\nThe santa clause\nNational lampoons christmas vacation\nGrinch\nHow the grinch stole christmas\nCharlie brown christmas\nElf\nErnest saves christmas..and lots and lots more where those came from!!
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Harry Potter\n22\nMale
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This is a great story that says it all...The Velveteen Rabbit.\nTHERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming. \n\nThere were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all. For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten. \n\nFor a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him. The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real. The model boat, who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint, caught the tone from them and never missed an opportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms. The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn't know that real rabbits existed; Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse. \n\nThe Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces. He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else. For nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it. \n\n"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day,  "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" \n\n"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time, REALLY loves you, then you become Real." \n\n"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. \n\n"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." \n\n"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" \n\n"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." \n\nIf it is real love..........it does not matter!
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a short story with a title
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Mr. Scratch\n\nThe story is about a New Hampshire farmer in 1840 with unending bad luck. Jabez Stone swears that "it's enough to make a man want to sell his soul to the devil!" When Mr. Scratch (the Devil) arrives the next day, the farmer reluctantly makes a bargain for better luck. Mr. Stone enjoys seven years of prosperity, and later bargains for three more years, but as the "mortgage falls due," he convinces famous lawyer and orator Daniel Webster to argue his case with the Devil.
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Ishtar and Tammuz: A Babylonian Myth of the Seasons (Hardcover)\nby Christopher J. Moore, Christina Balit...check Amazon.com
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Raisin in the Sun's major themes are:\nFamily strength and unity\nDreams and how they affect life\nMoney and its power\nAbortion is a subtheme\nAssimilation in the popular culture\n\nI hope this helps.  We just finished acting it out at my school.
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the moral of the story/the overall message it's related to.\neg:war,betrayal,loneliness\nhope that helped.cheerz!
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Three Kings from the east (Magi)\n\nNothing says the shepherds weren't wise.
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Try out huge classics such as the Grimm brother's fairy tales or CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. The major themes in childhood literature are such as: relationships (how to build proper ones/get away from bad ones), family and relatives (see how many fairy tales with the bad stepmom), irrational fears (how you deal with them) and magic (with children's eyes many things are "magical"), growing up etc. Mostly those stories were written in order to help out children with their major issues.
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The Bible\nChronicles of Narnia\nHobbit
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The Christmas Story\n\nHow The Grinch Stole Christmas\n\nThe Nightmare Before Christmas
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All religions and beliefs have their creation stories, and these can provide an interesting exercise in identifying common themes.\n\nThese are simple stories designed to help simple people answer some of the world's most inponderable questions.