THE BOY WHO HATES CHRISTMAS

This story begins a day before Christmas Eve. A young boy named Paul, whose feeling lethargy on
upcoming Christmas Day.

One afternoon comes while he’s playing in the park in their subdivision, He met a girl named Gen, a
vibrant girl who rapture about Christmas Day. Upon seeing each other on a playground, where
there’s only the two of them the girl went to the boy and talked.

“Hi, my name is Gen, you are?”

“I’m Paul”
“So paul, are you excited on Christmas Day?”

Paul looked at Gen with a discordant look. And the boy said “No, why would I?” The girl looked
confused then replied to the boy

“Are you serious? Hark! Christmas is the best day of the year, it’s all about giving, feeling
rapture about gifts and it is the birth of Baby Jesus.” She eloquently said.

The Boy carp in his mind. He feels shrill on the girl whose haywire of blabbing about something. He
then adjures to the girl, “Can you please stop saying nonsense? Can you be perceived? I’m
antithesis of what you’re feeling.”

Then the girl stops talking and try to mettle.

The boy feel respite after that. But then after the silent atmosphere, the girl takes her provilege to
talked again and ask with a confused look, “Why do you hate Christmas Day?” The boy stunned for a
second and thinks if it’s okay to share about it, so he accedes to answer.

“On the day of Christmas, my parents we’re arguing with each other about something, my father
tried the best He can to persuade and explained, but my mother is so obtuse. They consensus to
broke up and to live their own lives. While my father is packing His things, he felt lethargy and
sadness, so He walked away to our house with a broken heart.

But then uncanny impetus clash happened that time, I saw a fancy car who’s gilded obliterate my
father. From that day, my mother forgets Her responsibilities to me and become a gofer in their work.
She sold some of our property. The man who hit and run my father is still anonymity.
So, you see, after having a trauma like that I’ve had a xenophobia and started to hate Christmas.”

The girl was crying listening to the story of the boy who hates Christmas. She wanted to help the boy
to feel rapture, feel loved and to feel whole again. So, she said,
 “Don’t worry, from now on I will be your friend and I will make you happy.” The boy smiled and
agreed to be his friend.

Christmas Eve arrived, Gen and Paul decided to go to the church to see Baby Jesus and our vestal
Mary. Birds are chirping, choirs are singing. It was a beautiful night of the two children.

From that day, the two amalgamations to play every afternoon in the park where they first met. And
Paul’s mother become focus on Him and celebrated Christmas Day together.

Lesson of the story don’t worry about the past and move forward. Because the way you think of the
past the more it will haunt you. And always remember that family is important than anything.
God always provide and will be with you until the end. Merry Christmas!

-END-
College of International Hospitality and Tourism Management

Final requirement in World Literature

Composed by: Gener I. Milan

Submitted to: Beverlie A. Pajo LPT, MAED

Date of submission: December 6, 2022

 Creative Writing Rubric

WORD CHOICE &

IDEAS ORGANIZATION VOICE SENTENCE CONVENTIONS
FLUENCY
• The opening lines • The writer sets the • The tone and voice • Thoughtful use of • Spellings,
vividly present the scene by introducing are strongly sensory language capitalizations, and
story’s main conflict the characters, individual and helps create punctuations are
and characters. setting or action in a appropriate for the memorable pictures correct.
• Significant, memorable way. story. of the setting, • Grammar and usage
descriptive details • The ending resolves • The point of view is characters, and are correct.
reveal the setting and the conflict highly consistent. conflict. • Paragraphing tends
characters. satisfactorily. • Sentences have a to be correct.
• The writer uses • The sequence of pleasing variety of
strong dialogue to events is clear and structures.
show the characters’ engaging. • Use of fragments
personalities • The story has a clear and run-on sentences
beginning, middle, in dialogue is
and end. deliberate and
thoughtful.
0-20 points 0-20 points 0-20 points
0-20 points 0-20 points
• The opening lines • The writer vaguely • The tone and voice • Sensory language is • Spellings,
present the story’s presents the are individual and adequate to describe capitalizations, and
main conflict and characters, setting, or acceptable. the setting, punctuations are
characters. action. • The point of view is characters, and sometimes correct.
• Most details are • The ending resolves consistent. conflict. • Grammar and usage
relevant in revealing the conflict. • Sentences mostly do not distort
the setting and • The sequence of have a variety of meaning but are not
characters. events is mostly clear. structures. always correct.
• The writer often uses • The story has a • Use of fragments • Paragraphing is
dialogue to show the beginning, middle, and run-on sentences attempted but is not
characters’ and end, but the in dialogue is always sound.
personalities. action is not always thoughtful.
easy to follow.

0-15 points 0-15 points 0-15 points 0-15 points

0-15 points
• The opening lines • The writer hints at • The tone and voice • A little more sensory • Spellings,
vaguely present the the characters, are clearly individual language is needed. capitalizations, and
story’s main conflict setting, or action. and not always • Some sentences punctuations are
or characters. • The ending does not appropriate. have a variety of sometimes incorrect.
• More details are bring the conflict to a • The point of view is structures. • Grammar and usage
needed. satisfying conclusion. occasionally • Use of fragments errors distract the
• The writer uses • The sequence of inconsistent. and run-on sentences meaning.
dialogue. events is sometimes in dialogue is not • Paragraphing is
confusing. always thoughtful. irregular or too
• The story has a frequent.
beginning, middle,
and end, but the
action hard to follow.

0-10 points 0-10 points 0-10 points 0-10 points

0-10 points
• The opening lines do • The writer does not • The voice lacks • Lack of sensory • Common words are
not present the set up what the story individuality. language limits the misspelled and almost
story’s main conflict is about. • The point of view is picture of the setting, all punctuation is
or characters. • The story begins and inconsistent and characters, and missing or incorrect.
• Details and examples ends in a confusing confusing. conflict. • Grammar and usage
are irrelevant or are way. • Repetitive sentence are frequent and
missing. structures and lack of distorts meaning.
• The writer does not dialogue make the • Paragraphing is
use dialogue. writing difficult to missing.
follow.

0-5 points 0-5 points 0-5 points 0-5 points 0-5 points
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