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Persuasive Essay About The Nightmare Before Christmas

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Do you really think that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie when the whole conflict is about Christmas? Some people think this movie is either a Halloween or Christmas movie. I think that it’s a Christmas movie because all of the evidence leads in the direction of Christmas. The first reason why I think that this is a Christmas movie is because the movie is all about how Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king has a huge obsession with Christmas. Jack wants everyone to understand the joy that Christmas brings like opening presents and decorating trees. Jack is obsessed with Christmas because he is tired of being the pumpkin king of Halloween Town and he is tired of being his same old self, so he wants to take over the holiday Christmas. That’s the first reason why the Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas movie. …show more content…

Zero has a shiny red nose just like Rudolph. The night that Halloween Town was celebrating Christmas it became really foggy and Jack had planned to deliver presents in Christmas Town. Jack came up with a plan to have Zero guide the sleigh through the fog. In the movie Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, Rudolph guides the the sleigh because of his shiny red nose but in the Nightmare Before Christmas, Zero guides the sleigh. That’s the second reason why the Nightmare Before Christmas is more of a Christmas movie. The third reason why I think that this is a Christmas movie is because Jack Skellington is friendly. All that Jack wants to do is bring Christmas joy to Halloween Town. Jack also released Santa from Oggie Boogie so he can go and save Christmas after he felt very bad for ruining it. In the end Jack embraces that he’s pumpkin king and everyone at the end of the movie understands the meaning of Christmas. That’s the third reason why The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas

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