Narrative Essay About Halloween

Introduction: Patrons of the season of Halloween spend over $2.5 billion dollars every year on candy, costumes, and decorations. Every year millions of kids get dressed up, knock on doors, and beg for candy. Have you ever wondered where this strange tradition originated? The three most important points of Halloween can be summed up by looking at its origins, how it came to include jack-o-lanterns and bobbing for apples, and how it is celebrated today with trick-or-treating and haunted houses.

Finally…. Halloween was here. I have waited all year for this day. My all time favorite holiday. School was finally over and I slipped on my costume and jetted out the door. I was ready for the spooky scares, chilly air, and crazy dares that happen on halloween night. My friend Kayla and I walked to each door chanting “trick or treat”, but one house appeared to be kind of peculiar. The house was big, white, and the tiles were falling off. Nobody dared to step on the property of the house.

It was a hot, warm, nice day. The Wind blew calmly through trees. Not a thing was out of place. Hanayia lived on 5th Avenue. Beautiful houses, nice people, perfect life. Hanayia had the

One night when I was a little kid, I had a nightmare where I felt like I was being watched by someone or something. I was laying on the couch in my grandparents' living room. When I woke up, I started to get a weird feeling. Like someone was there, so I slowly sat up. I called out for my grandparents. No one answered so I decided to walk to their bedroom. They were sound asleep. Weird I thought to myself. So I walked back into the living room to check if someone was outside. When I looked out the living room window, I saw a man sitting on the fence in a crouched position: just staring into the house waiting for someone to notice him. I stared at him for the longest time, I slowly backed away from the window. I quickly ran to my room. When laying there in my bed, I lay there feeling scared. I kept getting scared when I thought what if he came into the house. After a while of laying there, I tried to fall asleep. Trying to keep my mind off about what I just saw.

You won’t believe this story, but it is true! One Halloween night Sophia and Josefina were at Sophia’s house planning Halloween and putting up Halloween decorations. Then, on Halloween night they went trick or treating, but no one was in their houses. They were with Sophia’s dad because Josefina said that her parents were busy with something. “This is really weird! I am kind of scared!” said Josefina. “Why are you scared? No one probably wants to hand out candy, or it is really late.” explained Sophia. “It was only 7:30 when we left.” said dad. “Oh. It was?” asked Sophia. Dad nodded. “That is creepy! I don’t even see anybody trick or treating.” said Josefina while she was shivering with fear and coldness.”I hope that someone is giving out candy so we can at least get a little.” said Sophia with hope. “ Dad, are you sure it’s Halloween?” asked Sophia. “Yep, it’s Halloween all right.” said Dad. “ I am glad that you came with us Mr. Fischer. Thanks.” said Josefina. They went to a house with no decorations but they did have their porch light on and rang the doorbell. “Trick or treat!” they all said together. “Oh, well aren’t you guys cute in your little costumes. Here you go. There is some candy.” the lady gave them some candy then slammed the door. “Well that was rude. She slammed the door on us.” said Josefina. “Oh and by the way, there is another house giving out candy out in the woods. Just follow the trail.” said the lady. “Let’s go to that house the lady was talking

The most interesting thing I learned was why we make the jack-o-lantern. We make jack-o-lantern to keep jack away because he wasn’t accepted to heaven or hell. Jack was stuck on earth and people didn’t want him in his house so they used jack-o-lanterns to keep him away. He had to stay until judgement day to be trialed to where he should go. That’s the most interesting thing I learned about the Halloween tradition.

It’s the night that sends shivers down our spines. The night where ghosts and goblins pass into our world, stalking us as we in collect treats from house to house. Halloween. Yes, it all seems like simple fun, as we get to take part in parades, dress as your favourite character, and try to ignore the other individuals dressed as monsters, attempting to scare us. However, just like the monsters we dress as yet fear under our beds, the history of Halloween is more frightening than a simple “boo” from a fellow trick-or-treater.

Halloween is one of the oldest existing holidays celebrated around the world but it’s also a holiday that has found itself cast in a controversial light over the years. It’s celebrated during the time of year, between the bustling, hot summer days and the joyous holiday celebrations of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Many people look forward to the Halloween festivities for the fun, creative, community interaction. The holiday encompasses the idea of children, dressing up, handing out candy, costume parties and fun; but for some, it’s a holiday based on fear and misconceived notions about its history.

Halloween of my junior year in high school is a memorable point that documents where life started to change for me for the better. And yes, this is a story about Halloween but more importantly this is my story about how friendship changed my perspective and ultimately my life. To give some background, my sophomore year of high school is not a time I look back on with any fondness. I was a mess, a product of the situation in my home. My dad was diagnosed with cancer the end of my freshman year and the year that followed this news was a painful one. My dad’s stress from working his demanding job and keeping his problems concealed caused his depression to spiral into a very dark place leaving my mom, little sister, and I at a loss. We weren’t allowed to tell people what was going on at home because my dad was a shamed of what he was going through as a man dealing with prostate cancer. So naturally, having to bottle up what I was going through had a very adverse affect on me. I didn't have many friends at this point since starting high school I jumped from ten years of Catholic school to the public school system. I only had a few close friends that I couldn’t even talk to about what was going on so I distanced myself from them.

During the weekend of October 31st, Halloween day. I was just getting out of school tired to the fullest. Once my mom picked me up, as usual, she asked me the normal question, “How was your day?” and I reply as usual, “It was fine”. As we begin our ride home I turn up the music and begin to get my phone out of my pocket.

If Americans were asked to give examples of holidays, they would most likely mention the Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas. These specific dates, known as calendar customs, are traditional practices that have become incorporated into culture due to “social pressure, common usage, and parental or other authority” (Brunvand 406). Each holiday has rich, historical roots, and many of the customs associated with them have been transmitted over several generations. In addition, most contemporary holiday customs vary dramatically from the date’s original purpose. In the case of Halloween, the commercialization of candy and costumes has contributed to a more family-oriented atmosphere compared to the initial auspicious and superstitious beliefs surrounding this day. Despite its alterations throughout the years due to cultural and religious reasons, Halloween still remains a prominent influence in popular culture that will continue to thrive for generations to come.

“Good I said, I’m just excited to start Trick or Treating. “ started out in my Tyler Young costume unloading all of my suitcases for the night with my family. We brought in our clothes, then got together for a family picture. My sister was a witch, my cousin Gentri was also a witch, Dexter was a ninja and his little sister Morgan was a skeleton. Dexter didn’t think to get a costume so he used a bunch of black clothes and a ski mask in order to look like a ninja. To begin with we started out as a family, going together and saying, “trick or treat!” at every door, but eventually Dexter, Dawson and I began to go ahead so we could get more candy. As we went to one house two people jumped off their high porch, which was like 15 feet over the ground, and began fighting each other with lightsabers, It was pretty amazing. Their Lightsabers glowed brightly in the dark night. They looked like they were from the movie Star Wars. After passing that house we would run from house to house, and at each house we would get a big king sized candy bars. It was like I was in Candyland. “This is the best Halloween ever, I’m getting so much candy.” I told Dexter excitedly. We went on a huge loop of the

There is a broad variety of Halloween Tricks; there are many different tricks people do to other people during this time of month. And I think I have one of the best tricks you can possibly do to little trick or treaters that treat you with disrespect, or just for simple fun. Like for example if you know the little kid then of course you would try to prank them at least or if they disrespect you then you would try your best to try to prank them back. Like if a kid looks at you with such disgust then you can do this simple little trick. There are many little tricks like for example you can.

I still remember this night as if it was just the other day. It was freshman year and Bob Duncan, the most popular kid in the grade, had rented a house for his Halloween party. This would be the best party of the year, or so everyone thought. Here is my story of Halloween Night, 2013.

The day before Halloween everybody was ready and had their costumes ready and houses was filled with candy. One night I was out looking at all the decorations, but something was different at the White's house there was nothing there but a black cat at the door. The White’s usually always do decorations, but i thought they were still out looking for supplies for Halloween, but the black cat was new but very abnormal. I didn't want to go sneaking on someone’s else's property so I just moved along. Then I noticed that the cat was following me now I didn’t know why, but I didn’t like it so I started running. When I turned around the cat was still following but now running. I rushed back to my aunt’s house, but the cat was still following when I went in the cat had sat in the bushes and hid by the dark sky, but I had to get home by 10:00 or my mother was going to get erupt and I might be grounded.