I am currently reading "Welcome to Moonbase" by Ben Bova. This book is different from most novels because the book is written as a guid to a future astronaut or scientist who is arriving at Moonbase and therefor the book is more like an interesting textbook than a novel. The quote that I choose to analys is on page 25 and is about the first Christmas on the Moon.
"December 2003 saw the first celebration of Christmas on the Moon. The six occupants of Tempo D, a lunar shelter situated on the eastern edge of Mare Nubium, within sight of the crater Alphonsus, began decorating their austere underground shelter several days before Christmas with colored ribbons, drawings, and even a Christmass tree--made of aluminum strips cut from discared food wrappings, fastened to the stump of an antenna from a nonfuctioning radio".

When most people think of Christmas they think of a beautiful green tree, decorated with colorful lights, and cfated ordimints. However, when we read this passage we get a much different picture. Bova used the word "austere" to discribe thier shelter on the Moon. I was unsure what this word meant so I looked it up. The mean is without comfort or luxeries. We get the picture that these astronuaghts had to be creative and use things that they already had for thier decorations. I love how he tells us details such as they made thier Christmas tree out of aluminum strips cut from discared food wrappings and and attached them to an antenna from a broken radio. I have an image of a crude aluminum Christmas tree, maybe fastened together with duct tape and decorated with drawings and ribbons.