Christmas was not "complete" for Jess. Both Brenda and Ellie teased him about not having a girlfriend. They thought that Leslie was not a girl, due to her clothes that she wore. Jess was so frustrated as they had insulted her. His family was shortage of allowance too.
On Christmas Eve, he had not followed his family for last-minute shopping. Instead, he had met up with Leslie, and had given her a puppy as a gift,named Prince Terrien(P.T),which he had bought for free. This shows lack of family love towards each other for Jess's case. Leslie gave him a box of watercolours, which includes other art materials. What a great present it was for Jess.
That night, he helped May Belle wrap her gifts and even pleased Joyce Ann, as she was crying about Santa would not come. He received a racing-car set from his father, which he ran it. The cars kept falling off the curves, which made him mad, but Jess tried pleasing him. His mother even told him to do the milking immediately.
This family does not have peace and lack of family planning. It can be seen that Brenda and Ellie kept provoking Jess, which he prefered to celebrate the day with Leslie and not followed his family go shopping. He also had to milk Miss Bessie that very night. He actually cares about his family, but only May Belle acknowledge him. They had not pay much attention to him and gave him something he did not really loved, the racing-car set. Leslie had the perfect gift for him, which was the art materials and who had only knew him for a few days. Unlike their family,mine would rather spend the day together and bought gifts that everyone could be proud of and do the household chores together on the eve of Hari Raya Puasa.
