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The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare before Christmas

The Plot
Halloweentown is a fantasy land overflowing with ghosts, vampires, and witches. Jack is the leader of this town and is known as the “Pumpkin King”. Jack realizes he has grown tired of the same routine, and is faced with an identity crisis.
As Jack wonders through the forest he stumbles upon a doorway to Christmastown, he is impressed by the excitement and feeling of Christmas. Jack shows Halloweentown what he has found and tries to explain Christmas. He decides to take over Christmas by getting the residents of Halloweentown to follow through with his plan. Part of his plan is to get the kid trio to kidnap “Sandy Claws’’. Sally has a horrible premonition that Jack’s Christmas is going to go all wrong, but Jack ignores her warnings.
Jack and his ghost dog Zero take off in his sleigh to deliver presents to children on Christmas Eve. When police are alerted about the scary gifts being delivered the military shoot him down. Jack realizes the predicament he has gotten himself into, and races back to Halloweentown to save Santa. Santa saves Christmas in the nick of time and leaves with no hard feelings.

Issues from Jack’s Perspective
Jack has guided his followers to yet another successful and frightful year of Halloween. However, after years of organizing Halloweens, he finds himself bored with the old routine and feels as though he needs new inspiration.
Jack finds himself inspired by the sights and sounds of Christmas and embraces the change he finds in Christmastown. He focuses on symbols of Christmas without knowing their meaning. However, Jack finds it difficult to come up with definitions for these symbols. His followers are unfamiliar with these ideas of peace, joy and happiness. Jack has an abstract definition that he has learnt through books, but he never gets a chance to live and experience the meaning of Christmas. This leaves him with an unclear vision, and therefore an unclear mission statement.
Since Jack


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