[One Christmas]
Year:
1983
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Random House
Year of publication:
1995
Pages:
41
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
The story is an autobiographical memoir of the author's childhood. It is a Christmas spent together with his father - separated from his mother years ago - in a different city of Alabama where he lived with his aunts. From the point of view of a six-year-old child, two contrasting situations are described: the family atmosphere of Alabama, characterized by poverty and impregnated with a religious outlook, in which the boy is happy; and the life situation of the father in New Orleans, characterized by material well-being, immorality, rejection of God, and unhappiness.
E.A. (2004)