The Christmas Box review
The Christmas Box, by Richard Paul Evans, is a well written novel that has and will continue to help people who read it realize the true meaning of Christmas. Oddly though, The Christmas Box was not written to be published, but as a present for Mr. Evan's daughters. The Christmas Box is a story about the relationship between a man caught up in his job, his family and a loving, lonely elderly woman with who they share a house who shows them the true meaning of Christmas. The story starts out happily, but eventually becomes complicated by the man who chooses his career over his family and the elderly woman's sad, secret past. The Christmas Box starts out with a family, the main character, a man named Richard, his wife Kerri and 4 year old daughter Jenna who have outgrown their little apartment in the city. When Kerri sees an ad in the classifieds that sounds like exactly what they need, they end up moving
Eventually, everyone including Richard notices something is troubling MaryAnne, who uncharacteristically goes off by herself without telling anyone what she is doing. Richard pieces together the very little, but strange evidence of MaryAnne's past. He tries to understand a reoccurring dream, a Christmas box full of love letters and strange musical connection between the two. When he finally understands what had been going on, he sees how he had been breaking apart his family because of his job. He realizes how he had started missing out on so much time he could be spending with the people he loves. He finally learns what Christmas is all about. He also learns that we need to take advantage of the time we have with our loved ones because it doesn't last forever. When the ice is broken between MaryAnne, Kerri and Jenna, they become the family that MaryAnne never had. At the same time, Richard becomes more and more caught up in expanding his busin
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Approximate Word count = 642
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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