Narrative Essay On Halloween

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.

Purpose: To inform the audience of how Halloween started and transformed to what it is now.

Halloween is a night of sweets, outfits, and fun that exclusively comes around once per year on October 31st. This is a period when individuals get an opportunity to dress up and be somebody or something else. Individuals can go to parties, haunted houses, or go trick or-treating. There are things to people do no matter their age. Halloween is filled with rich with history, old religious convictions, and stories.

With Halloween coming near, we all get busy preparing for all the excitement it brings along with it. Everybody in the family including your pet doggy is all excited about Halloween. Earlier, families having pets would leave them at home because of lack of Halloween dog costumes available in the market. Today all dog lovers are so enthusiastic about their pets taking part in Halloween celebrations as part of their own family. There are many pet parades and competitions arranged during this festive time and everyone loves to dress up their dog as per the festivity. In fact, one need not go far searching for the right Halloween dog costumes for their furry friends as the Internet is full of creative dog boutiques that specialize in such costumes and more.

Halloween is just around the corner and many kids are excited. Humans across the United States are preparing for the holiday by buying many things. People are buying costumes for trick or treating, lawn ornaments to put in their yard, and candies such as skittles and m&ms to hand out to kids. Some of the most popular lawn ornaments this year are tombstones, skeletons, and like almost every other year your classic Jack O'Lantern. There are also many new costume ideas this year including super hero and pokemon outfits. Except with the new clown sightings, many parents are worried for their children's safety, causing them to limit their children’s time out on the streets. Also some are choosing not to let their kids go at all.

This year for Halloween I am dressing up as a prisoner and my little sister, Carson is dressing up as a fairy. We run out to the car as Mom pulls up with our costumes in the car. She lets us try them on to make sure everything fits and then puts them up in her closet for the last few days until Halloween gets here. She knows if she lets us have them they will get messed up or lost, so she always puts them away where we cannot find them. As Halloween day gets closer the school sets up for a “spook walk” where all the kids get to wear their Halloween costumes around the gymnasium in a line to show them off to all the other students and the parents to attend. They have a few awards for children who had the best costumes. This tradition has always

Halloween has been celebrated in this country and many other countries with fan and fair. A local celebration for this holiday is the Heritage Halloween event. This event takes place every year at the National Ranching Heritage Center on October 31. During this event many activities took place such as Trick-or-Treating, hayrides, and cakewalks. The activity that interested me was Trick-or-Treating ritual.

When I arrived TO was at the kitchen table eating breakfast. TO was speaking staff about Halloween and what she was going to be for Halloween, which is a ghost. TO asked staff to pin a ghost crocheted ghost on her sweater. I asked TO if she knew how to crochet. She informed me an individual at her work crocheted the ghost for her. After TO ate her breakfast and took her medication, TO went into the living room to watch television until the grits bus arrived.

We have been celebrating Halloween for thousands of years. In this article you will find out why we do celebrate Halloween and it’s origins.

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Dressing up in costumes, trick-or-treating and carving pumpkins into funny faces. These traditions are part of Halloween, a holiday known for fun, games and of course candy. At least in this day and age, the excitement that the public feels for this undocumented holiday isn’t the same as it was 2,000 years ago. For the story of Halloween dates back thousands of years to a festival called Samhain (pronounced sow-in). A group of people known as the Celts celebrated it to mark the end of the harvest season. They lived where Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are today. Samhain began on November 1, but the celebrations began the night before, on October 31. Families would gather for big

Halloween has its roots in the ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, which was celebrated on the night of October 31. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, believed that the dead returned to earth on Samhain. http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-trick-or-treating

In the nineteenth century, immigrants from Ireland and Scotland carried versions of the Halloween tradition to North America. Other countries such as Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand adopted the holiday as well.

I didn’t know about Halloween a lot before I came to high school maybe because it was a festival from Western countries. At least, my family never celebrate Halloween. I could remember that things I knew about Halloween before was from the my middle school English book which talked about nothing more than costumes, pumpkins and candies. After attending in the first Halloween celebration in high school, I got to know more about the tradition in Halloween. Until now, I still remember the first Halloween in AP center. Promoted by nervousness and excitement, I searched a lot about how people dressed up on Halloween and I finally chose to dress as a vampire. I did something traditional such as carving a jack-o-lantern, having costume competition

It was a foggy night on Halloween Many think that the barrier between our world and the underworld are at the weakest point well let's find out Me and my friends love Halloween we can be anyone or anything for only one day out of the year.Every year me and my friends lucy,who is a more scientific person believes every thing should be proven she has black hair blue eyes Parker,wants some money he has blond hair and green eyes and Eleanor is a scaredy cat she has white hair and brown eyes.we take a trip to my parents cabin in the louisiana swamp It is great this time of year because we always go looking for unusual things out of this world things paranormal things. We always see something but you never let them see you!