We all know the jolly old fat man, Santa Clause the one who has elves who make all the toys, and he can fit through a chimney when he's 10 times it's size, right?
Well Santa Clause turns out to be a real person. You think I'm talking about the North pole Santa, I know. Although Santa was born in Turkey. As you all know his real name is not Santa Clause, it is Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was a generous man, that was devoted to children. After he died in 340 A.D. he was buried in Myra. A couple of years later, Italian soldiers stole the remains that were left of him, making Saint Nicholas even more popular through Europe. Many people said that Saint Nicholas could perform miracles and devotion.
Churches in Europe honored him by having a big feast for the town, December sixth every year. Yes, that is why Saint Nicholas comes and fills our stockings with goods. Although that is on the fifth, but I really don't know why. After awhile Saint Nicholas's followers left and forgot him. His legend was yet still kept alive in Holland where the Dutch spelling of his name was Sint Nikolaas, it was eventually transformed into Sinterklaas. Just like us but a little different, Dutch children would put their wood shoes by the fire, and Saint Nicholas would fill them with goods of all sorts. Dutch colonists brought over the name to America, and there for it became Santa Clause.
Santa Clause has many different names from our country and others. United States: Santa Clause Brazil: Papai Noel China: Shengdan Laoren Chile: Viejo Pascuero Dutch: Sinterklaas England: Father Christmas Italy: Babbo Natale Russia: Ded Moroz. There is many more from all around the world!
There are some places or families that don't even have Christmas. Maybe they have Honnukah, or Quanza, but some don't have anything. I just wonder what it's like having a rule that you can't have Christmas or something close to that.
Kids have believed in Santa, coming through your chimney and eats your cookies and drinks your milk. Now to me that's mean for people who like cookies, and why would he take someones cookies?! Look all I'm trying to say is, who would do such a thing to little kids, that love you, because you give them presents once every year?
Well overall Santa is a pretty nice elderly magical man. I can't believe he goes around the world in one night! Just kidding. Since the time is different, like Japan in almost a day ahead of us, so I guess he has tow days to go around the world.
That was very interesting, I didn't know that Saint Nicholas was real. I didn't get the part about him being mean to kids by stealing their cookies. Normally kids leave them out for him.
ReplyDeleteYeah but he takes them!???!!!
ReplyDeleteThat was really good, I liked Italy's Santa- Babbo Natale---Natalie
ReplyDeleteHey that essay was really ineresting. I have a few suggestions for you, when you were lisiting th different names of santa you should put commas inbetween the names. Another suggestion is that you speled Haunnaka wrong, I'm not sertin how to spell it but I am positive that there is no O after H.
ReplyDeleteYou should make the intro paragraph into different sentences.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't really have a thesis statement, much less an intro. But I thought your conclusion was good, but you didn't have a challenge or 'big idea' at the end.
ReplyDeleteSplit up or expand on the intro. I liked all the different Santa names.
ReplyDeleteI think that it's really weird how they all have different names, but I really liked how you found all of them---Good JOB!
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