Reuel Ravanera Ms.

Carmencita Caridad
ABELS 1-5 Great Books

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Plot Summary)

The Grinch is a bitter, grouchy, cave-dwelling

creature who hates Christmas. He resides on the
snowy Mount Crumpit, a steep high mountain just
north of the town of Whoville, home of the merry
and warm-hearted who's. His heart has been "two
sizes too small". His only companion is his unloved,
but loyal dog, Max. From his cave, the Grinch can
hear the noisy Christmas festivities that take place in
Whoville. Continuously annoyed, he devises a
wicked scheme to steal their presents, trees, and food
for their Christmas feast.
He crudely disguises himself as Santa Claus, and
Max as a reindeer, whom he forces to drag a sleigh
down the mountain towards Whoville, where the
Grinch slides down the chimney of one house
and steals all of the Whos' Christmas presents,
the Christmas tree, and the log for their fire. He is
briefly interrupted in his burglary by a little who girl
named Cindy Lou Who, but he concocts a crafty lie
to affect his escape from her home. After stealing
from one house, he does the same thing to all the other houses in the village of Whoville.
After spending all night stealing stuff from the houses of Whoville, the Grinch travels back to the
top of Mount Crumpit, intending to dump all of the Christmas stuff into the abyss. As dawn
arrives, the Grinch expects the Who’s to let out bitter and sorrowful cries, but instead, they sing a
joyous Christmas song. The Grinch is puzzled until it dawns on him that "maybe Christmas,
perhaps, means a little bit more" than just presents and feasting. The Grinch's shrunken
heart suddenly grows three sizes. The Grinch reforms and returns to the village to return all of
the Christmas stuff to the who’s before participating in their Christmas feast.