Celebrate Halloween with Pumpkins, Costumes, and Candy by Deborah Heiligman is a non-fiction book that is part of the Holidays around the World series created by the author and explores how people from different countries celebrate Halloween as well as some of its history. The text, published by National Geographic and recommended for children 6-9 years old, explores various aspects celebrated across the world including local folklores, foods, games and costumes. In addition, the book explores Halloween origins behind our favorite traditions such as carving jack-o-lanterns and trick-or-treating, using inviting language that is accompanied by definitions for words that may be unfamiliar to small children. Also, instead of drawn illustrations,
American colonists are responsible for initially bringing Halloween to the United States. () During the holiday of Halloween we as a society are allowed to play with this idea of putting on a mask or persona. Halloween is a safer way for us as a society to play with darkness. Still, as we have started to see a rise in violence in America, it also leads to the possibility of the unknown on Halloween. During Halloween, people play with being monsters; however, Michael Meyers is truly a monster.
Tomorrow we begin the month of October. October gives us a full month of colorful autumn and ends with the spooky day of Halloween. There are people who enjoy this holiday especially children and those who think it a pagan event. Personally I have always enjoyed Halloween just for the fun of it with nothing other than that. A kind of autumn celebration with carved pumpkins, colorful leaves and the ghosts and ghoulies just for fun.
Soon, the street will be full of children with ridiculous costumes on, knocking on strangers’ doors for useless candies. I considered Halloween as the most useless holiday ever in this country’s history since it encourages chronic childhood cavity and diabetes problems. Most importantly, those sugar-high children could end up in front a criminal’s house. Well, I’m glad that I do not get on young children if not, I might have had to prepare lists of props for this season. Young children sometimes do remind me of my childhood but they do not irritate me as much as young women do.
This tradition gained popularity in America after World War II, with a capitalist twist: children dressed in costumes asking for candy or pranking their neighbors if no treats were given. Halloween is now a fun holiday celebrated by most Americans with spooky costumes, decorations, and lots of
The holiday of scaring people is so fun. Telling spoke stories and trying to make someone scared is so fun and, it’s been around for so long time why would someone do that to the people of the U.S. and just take what someone in the past have created. Kids love Halloween, first off they like candy, they love to dress up and, they love walking around. Halloween is
Also, the history of Halloween if able to be defined as a type of celebration but it needs to have the essential elements which are communion with the ancestral dead, divination, and fire. Halloween was brought to America as a holiday that had multiple ways of celebrating it; over the years, America has been able to adapt over the centuries. The origins of Halloween go back to as
The ritual of Halloween can be traced back two millennia, all the way to Europe. It began as the “ancient Celtic festival of Samhain … in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France” (“Halloween 2022”). They celebrated this festival on October 31 (“Halloween 2022”). Samhain “…
Now, in the United States, Halloween is a holiday dedicated to children, so children can be who they want to be for a night and get candy. Halloween was never intended to be holiday that involved sexualized clothing or costumes. In our society, it is not acceptable to dress in risqué clothing to funerals or in front of children, so it should not be acceptable for people to wear risqué clothing on Halloween. Halloween should be for the children
Did you ever wonder why it is an American tradition to dress up as monsters or TV characters for Halloween? Well, that is because it was not America’s tradition to begin with, as well as many other things in America. Many things that people believe are American culture, actually came from another culture that has diffused throughout time. Halloween is a prime example of American culture originating from another, as stated in the article History of Halloween, by Joshua J. Mark, “Halloween traditions in the West date back thousands of years to the festival of Samhain.” Halloween originally came from a festival, where they would celebrate and watch the sunset on October 31 to November 1 to honor god, as well as to mark the close harvest season
Does your school celebrate Halloween? My school doesn’t and I’m kinda glad about that. There are many reasons why schools shouldn’t allow Halloween celebrations. Kids could steal other kids candy, students may eat too much candy and get sick, and some students might feel left out because they do not celebrate Halloween.
There have always been some things about Halloween that we should worry about. In today’s society, there are a lot of crazy people out there. We can’t always trust everyone, not even our neighbors. Our parents have warned us every year about how we don’t need to eat any of our candy on Halloween night. We never understood why exactly.
This means that even if people do not celebrate Halloween, they still think that it should be allowed in educational institutions. Our group believes that people should have the option of being exposed to different celebrations, excluding the ones that him or her celebrates. Our group also asked students if they think that the celebration of
I understand her point of view and where she is coming from because I also believe that Halloween is associated with evil, but there is no evil in trick or treating as well as dressing up as a fun character. We have agreed that the national holiday is always going to be celebrated throughout the years and there is no stopping the traditions and customs of those who do not practice christianity. We have also established the fact that we would not mention halloween or celebrate as a family as long as we live together. It is unknown if I will ever actually choose to celebrate the holiday, but I would still believe that there is no harm in giving out candy. As long as the holiday is not celebrated with the intention of being evil and worshiping satan, it should be perfectly
WIIFM Statement: Most people today celebrate this holiday. If you chose to dress up, or hand out candy, or even just use it as an excuse to have a big party. But most people have no idea how it originated and why it is so big today. Credibility: I have celebrated halloween ever since I was born. My parents would dress me up when I was a baby and I would pick out my costumes every year after.
