Halloween In The Anthropocene By Craig Santos Perez

Every year millions of kids get dressed up, knock on doors, and beg for candy. With Halloween just around the corner, you all are probably wondering where this strange tradition came from. Every year I have experienced this holiday and have done research on this topic. According to a 2014 Smithsonian.com article, stated by Natasha Geiling, in just one year Americans spent over six billion dollars on candy, costumes, and ghoulish decor in anticipation for Halloween. Many people think all Halloween is about dressing up and going trick or treating but there's more to it than that. The roots and variations from all around are what makes Halloween what it is today. In order to understand this holiday, we will go into the history of Halloween, how it's celebrated around the world, and superstitions revolving it.

‘Halloween (monsters)’ is a poem written and performed by four girls of the 2013 DC Youth Slam Team, a youth program of the social justice & activism non-profit, Split This Rock. ‘Halloween’ is about the views of women and how some aspects of society tend to objectify women because of their discomfort of an empowering woman. It is based on the societal issues of inequality, objectification, empowerment, and acceptance. The theme of ‘overcoming challenges’ is first presented in this text when the girls say “Society is trying to squeeze the fantasy out of us. Turn our feminine fatal so this year l think I'll be MONSTER”. Another part that links to this is when they say “Finessing curves into eye candy instead of masterpiece 'American' beauty turned apple pie cutie”.

“Halloween in the Anthropocene” is a poem written by Craig Santos Perez, an activist for

As civilization advances, most of the people in society are uplifted by the development made. In a thousand years, we went from an agricultural society to an industrial one, and we are rapidly entering the digital age. But inevitably, there are people whom civilization has abandoned and exploited in order to advance this far. In his poem, “Halloween in the Anthropocene, 2015”, Craig Santos Perez dispels the preconceptions we hold about our society and reveals the horrors that we have either suppressed or neglected. He uses the Halloween scene to reveal how we have taken the atrocities that mankind has afflicted and relinquished. Through figurative language, imagery, and repetition, Perez parallels children wearing costumes of past figures to tragic figures from both the past and present in “Halloween in the Anthropocene, 2015” to bring to light the disastrous effects of the environment that we have created through our own greed and desire for advancement.

In Rob Zombie’s interpretation of John Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween, evil is manifested in a ten year old boy named Michael Myers. Zombie showcases for the first time on film, what the child went through that lead to the destruction of his innocents. The Halloween movie series is one of the most well-known horror movies of all time and one of my favorite slasher-flim. Michael Myers is who everyone fears the most, because no matter what you do to him, he would ever die. He never hid the hate and the evil that was inside him, he just embraced it. Somehow and someone has created this boogeyman that everyone fears, but the story was never told. It wasn’t until Zombie started filming Halloween that this could be answered. Sociologically concepts

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In Europe people celebrate halloween like we celebrate Halloween but the fascinating there continent with a long and tempestuous history and a legends and century-old castles but it not a great place to be at on Halloween.

The holiday of Halloween is also known as “All Hallows Eve”, which can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago to a Pagan and Celtic festivity. This festival known as “Samhain” (meaning summers end in Gaelic) took place on November 1. The reasons behind these festivals can be for multiple reasons including the gathering of people at the

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The history of Halloween is people go around in costumes to ward off ghosts.Around the world,as days grow shorter and the nights get colder,people in the season with the gathering,costumes,and candy. People like to eat pumpkin seeds because they are easy to make and easy to eat.It is celebrated by going to houses and knocking on a door and saying trick or treat and they give the kids candy it is celebrated on October 31.They eat pumpkin seeds, cupcakes, cookies,and a lot of

I don’t think most people know about the real history of Halloween because these days it’s all about neighborhoods buying candy and kids and adult dressing up in costume with bags, pillow cases, etc. going door to door knocking or ringing the doorbell saying “trick or treat” and the owners give you candy. The meaning of Halloween today? The meaning of Halloween today isn’t as it used to be when I was growing up, me and my cousins used to see who had the best costume and who had the most candy at the end of the night. Halloween is celebrated in other countries today, In Ireland, where Halloween originated, the day is still celebrated much as it is in the United States. In rural areas, bonfires are lit as they were in the days of the Celts, and all over the country, children get dressed up in costumes and spend the evening “trick-or-treating” in their neighborhoods.

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It was a brisk October night in Mystic Connecticut. The fading yellows, rusty oranges, and fiery reds of the leaves that were strewn about the roads supplied the only color and illumination that the cadaverous town had. Even the river that flowed through the village was dull in color- an ashen teal. The stodgy water churned and rippled, but it made no more sound than that of a petulant murmur. The town was abandoned every October as Halloween was approaching. Most people fled the village altogether, but a courageous few stayed behind. It was a scarce occurrence for one to set foot out of his or her house during this time of the year. There was never more than a single being outside by Halloween-time. It was so uncommon, that the stories of

“Beep! Beep! Beep!” my alarm clock said as I groggily turned it off. Then I realized it was one of my most favorite holidays ever, besides Christmas! It was Halloween! I love Halloween, the sweet smell of pumpkin pies, the cool and crisp fall air, and especially the dressing up and trick or treating. But, I have a feeling this Halloween was going to be a little different. As I got dressed I looked at my beautiful Belle costume from Beauty and the Beast. Instead of being the Belle in the yellow dress towards the end of the movie, I am going to wear a costume of her from the beginning of the movie. This is when she is dressed up as a maid. I liked it better than the capacious bulky ball-gown. I was so happy when mama showed me her handy-work. It was perfect! But, that is enough of my costume, I don’t want to give away too much!