Gifts For Friends Biography
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The largely autobiographical story, which takes place in the
1930s, describes a period in the lives of the seven-year-old narrator and an
elderly woman who is his distant cousin and best friend. The evocative
narrative focuses on country life, friendship, and the joy of giving during the
Christmas season, and it also gently yet poignantly touches on loneliness and
loss. Now a holiday classic, "A Christmas Memory" has been broadcast,
recorded, filmed, and staged multiple times, in award-winning productions. "A
Christmas Memory" is about a young boy, referred to as "Buddy,"
and his older cousin, who is unnamed in the story but is called Sook in later
adaptations. The boy is the narrator, and his older cousin — who is eccentric
and childlike — is his best friend. They live in a house with other relatives,
who are authoritative and stern, and have a dog named Queenie. The family is
very poor, but Buddy looks forward to Christmas every year nevertheless, and he
and his elderly cousin save their pennies for this occasion. Every year at
Christmastime, Buddy and his friend collect pecans and buy whiskey — from a
scary American Indian bootlegger named Haha Jones — and many other ingredients
to make fruitcakes. They send the cakes to acquaintances they have met only once
or twice, and to people they've never met at all, like President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt.
This year, after the two have finished the elaborate
four-day production of making fruitcakes, the elderly cousin decides to
celebrate by finishing off the remaining whiskey in the bottle. This leads to
the two of them becoming drunk, and being severely reprimanded by angry
relatives. The next day Buddy and his friend go to a faraway grove,
which the elderly cousin has proclaimed the best place, by far, to chop down
Christmas trees. They manage to take back a large and beautiful tree, despite
the arduous trek back home. They spend the following days making decorations for the
tree and presents for the relatives, Queenie, and each other. Buddy and the
older cousin keep their gifts to each other a secret, although Buddy assumes
his friend has made him a kite, as she has every year. He has made her a kite,
too. Come Christmas morning, the two of them are up at the crack
of dawn, anxious to open their presents. Buddy is extremely disappointed,
having received the rather dismal gifts of old hand-me-downs and a subscription
to a religious magazine. His friend has gotten the somewhat better gifts of
Satsuma oranges and hand-knitted scarves. Queenie gets a bone.
Then they exchange their joyful presents to each other: the
two kites. In a beautiful hidden meadow, they fly the kites that day in the
clear winter sky, while eating the older cousin's Christmas oranges. The
elderly cousin thinks of this as heaven, and says that God and heaven must be
like this. It is their last Christmas together. The following year, the
boy is sent to military school. Although Buddy and his friend keep up a
constant correspondence, this is unable to last because his elderly cousin
suffers more and more the ravages of old age, and slips into dementia. Soon,
she is unable to remember who Buddy is, and not long after, she passes away.
As Buddy says later: "And when that happens, I know it.
A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had
already received, severing me from an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it
loose like a kite on a broken string. That is why, walking across a school
campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I
expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying towards
heaven." Dudley Dursley (b. 23 June, 1980) was the Muggle son of Vernon and Petunia
Dursley, and cousin of Harry Potter. He was obese and insolent as a result of
his parents spoiling him throughout his childhood. He and his gang often
tormented Harry, taking after the example set by his parents, as well as other
weaker and younger children in their neighbourhood and at school. In 1995, he
faced Dementors for the first time, and was saved by Harry, after which he
mellowed and became generally kinder to his cousin. He left his house in 1997,
along with his family, to hide from Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters, under
the protection of the Order of the Phoenix.
After the Second Wizarding War, he married a woman and had two children. He
also remained in contact with Harry and his children.
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