The Movie ' One Night On Halloween '

Halloween. As a kid you see it as a chance to play dress up and a game of who got the most candy. As a teen, you see it as a game of who can host the best party, find the scariest people, or find the scariest places. Lucky for me, I won the unspoken teen game, all on Halloween night.

When the author catches her eating the candy and questions her mother about it she pitifully cries, "I am sugar addict, just like your father is an alcoholic." Even with insanely aggravating anecdotes like this Walls simply states, "Through my parents I saw that good people are capable of doing things that hurt the ones they love." The author avoids bitterness and chooses to see the best in her mother instead of complaining and asking for pity. She does the same thing in another even more infuriating instance. In the occurrence, Walls recalls miraculously coming across a two-caret diamond ring and asking her mother to pawn it in order to pay the bills and buy food. Her mother instead keeps the ring for herself and says, "The surest way to feel rich is to smother yourself in quality nonessentials." Along with this she adds another unbelievable remark of, "At times like these, self-esteem is even more vital than food." Even with maddening experiences like these Walls refuses to succumb to the typical revenge seeking child and instead somehow loves her mother for even her most unbearable qualities. The author's unrelenting hope serves as the very factor which allows her to endure her mother's less than motherly actions.

In defiance of his father’s wishes, Sonny continues to build rockets and gradually make something of himself outside of Coalwood, proving that he was in control of his future. In the same fashion, Jeannette Walls reaches beyond what others expect of her in The Glass Castle. The Walls children faced many hardships throughout their childhood. Due to their lack of money, their houses were almost always inadequate. One example of this is their house in Welch, West Virginia. The house is described as rustic, but in reality, lacked indoor plumbing and heating. In the winter, “It got so cold in the house that icicles hung from the kitchen ceiling, the water in the sink turned into a block of solid ice, and dirty dishes were stuck there as if they’d been cemented in place” (Walls 176). In the meantime, their parents, Rex and Rosemary, were not like most, and refused to conform to any standards society had for them. They taught “self sufficiency”, which often meant not working and wasting the little money they did have. While Rex did attempt to find a job, Rosemary blamed the children for the inadequate funds. “‘[Jeannette] can earn

When they arrived Mama and Kirst went inside, Annemarie and Ellen went for a walk. They walked down a path where they saw a cat that was eyeing them out. When they reached the ocean Ellen told Annemarie how she and never been to the proper ocean, only the harbour because her mum was afraid of the big sea and that it was to cold. The girls sat on a rock and took their shoes of. When they felt the water they got straight back out again. They then started to talk a they saw Mama waving for them to come back. When they got back Ellen as holding the kitten that was well asleep in her hands. Mama asked if they saw anyone and asked of the girls to make sure that they stayed out of sight from anyone else. They started to make dinner for when Uncle Henrick returned. The girls were getting ready to go to sleep when Ellen asked about her necklace when Annemarie responded by saying that it was in a safe hiding spot. While they were trying to fall asleep they heard the adults talking about why Henrick didn’t have a wife. Annemarie remembered the old times and how things had

The early memories of Jeanette Walls are stories of wonderful adventures in small desert towns or in the Northeastern Mountains. Walls and her brother, Brian, or sister, Lori ventured together around the United States, along with her parents Rex and Rose Mary. Despite living in poverty, Walls was able to make the best of her childhood with the little material she had. Her parents, being virtually broke, could not afford to buy them presents or new toys, so the children were left to fend for themselves when it came to having fun. Most people would find it impossible to find anything amusing if they were in the same situation, but the Rex and Rose Mary Walls brought adventure to their children’s life.

It was an average day for the Jones family of Rockroad Drive. Laura and Billy Mr. and Mrs. Jones’s two youngest children were playing Soccer outside while their older sister Anna was in her room practicing her gymnastics and writing a new song for her band, The Galactic Wonders, to play at the upcoming school dance. Mr. Jones was downstairs watching the Dallas Cowboys on their flat screen television while Mrs. Jones was outside watching Laura and Billy play Soccer helping keep score when all of a sudden they heard a humongous squeal from Anna’s room. Mr. Jones ran up the steps as fast as he could to only find out that she had fallen off her bed while practicing her back tuck for gymnastics class and had probably broken her arm in

Everyone think a guy named Jack Culpeper was killed by wolves, but Grace doesn't believe that. So the town decide to let the hunters kill the wolves. Grace found out by Isabel Culpeper, Jack Culpeper's sister. Once she found out, she ran out of school and got in her car. Her car broke down when she got near the woods. She saw the hunters walking in the forest wearing orange bright caps and holding shotguns. She had to make-up a lie so the hunters will stop hunting for the wolves, so she went to the police officer and told him "you need to stop them, my friend is in there taking pictures". It took awhile for her to convince him but she succeed. He was taking so long and Grace knew he was doing it on purpose. So Grace, being fearless, she jumped in the ditch and started running towards the hunters. She caught up to them convince them to stop. The police officer caught up to her and told how dangerous what she just did, but she didn't listening. She was too busy thinking about the wolves, her

They both decided they were far enough out in the middle of nowhere to set up a small camp for the night. Mildred made a small and not so comfy bed, while Montag kindled a fire that wouldn't bring to much attention in the woods. Both falling asleep quickly, Montag heard the sound of a stick snapping in half. Flinging up off the ground onto his feet, he heard the sound of leaves crunching in the distance. Walking around behind a tree, small hands grabbed his arm and pulled him behind a berry bush. Turning quickly, Montag saw a pale girl with her finger up to her mouth tempting him to be quiet. Montag quickly noticed the girl and tears ran down his cheek. "Clarrise, you're alive, you weren't hit by a car, YOU'RE ALIVE," Montag yelled in joy, waking Mildred. Walking back over to the fire, still hugging CLarrise, she explains to Montag about how the Government wanted to take her away for making people question their society, their actions, so she has been hiding in the woods ever since. Mildred was astonished to see her. Ready to say something, but the mechanical beast jumped out of the bush and stuck Clarrise in the neck with the needle. She fell to the ground closing her eyes slowly. Montag yelled and tried to save her, but Mildred pulled him away and

On a dark and creepy day on Halloween night some kids were going trick or treating but not all of them. Except the three Jameson kids who decided to stay home this year. The oldest boy’s name is Tommy, the middle child is a girl and her name is Sara lastly the youngest boy’s name is Tyrone. Before the permission from their mom, she has warned them about the missing kids who didn't decide to participate in Halloween last year who went off to do whatever they wanted and were missing so she is hopeful that they are not planning on going anywhere this halloween. An hour passed by and they realized that it was only 11:00 and Halloween wasn’t over yet. On the other hand, they were not even receiving candy so Tommy has come up with an idea that instead of staying in the house empty handed; he has something else in mind. Maybe we can sneak out the house and go to the haunted mansion by the gloomy corn field. Sarah did not agree, but it will be better than staying in the house. Tyrone agrees with anything but he just wants a piece of candy before the night is over.

Laurie Strode is the lead female character in Halloween. Jamie Lee Curtis plays Laurie, the last girl standing after going face to face with masked killer Michael Meyers. Alice, played by Adrienne King, is our final girl in Friday the 13th. Laurie and Alice quite similar at first glance--virginal, but not-so-innocent, old fashioned American girls.

The time was 8:34 p.m. on a warm night Halloween night. The strong winds swayed the trees back and forth violently and the moon wasn’t out. It was clearly not typical to have this kind of weather in Maycomb this time of year. You can hear the animals make their noises as they prepare for nightfall. Scout and I were heading back home from the pageant at the high school. We walked through the bushes and trees until Scout stops us. She said that she had left her shoes and I told her to get them tomorrow. As we continued on our journey home, I had heard something in the woods. I wasn’t quite sure what it was exactly at first but I assumed it was Cecil since he was the one to try to scare us earlier that night. We continued to walk home. Suddenly,

Marissa hopped on the train with her book in hand. She took a seat and started to relax. Opening her book to the next page, the milieu was getting interesting with each and every word. She looked around before she began to read. Being a librarian and a mystery buff, she enjoyed really anything and everything related to mysteries, this was the one way she could regale herself. Growing up, she was an only child and found ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ in the books that she read. As Marissa flipped to page 128, a scream pierced the air.

Many hundreds of years ago, European Celts believed that souls of the dead visited Earth on the last day of October. This belief spread to the Romans, and eventually to the region of the United States. Halloween was originally called Allhallowe’en, or the evening before All Hallows Day, a Catholic holiday that celebrated Saints. This name was eventually shortened to what we call it now, Halloween. The reasoning for some of the traditions we do on Halloween, like carving pumpkins came from a man named Jack. Jack’s behavior was too poor to get into heaven, or even hell, so he was deemed to walk the Earth with a lantern until judgement day. The Irish carved turnips to remind them to not behave as Jack did, but, since pumpkins were easier

“What he saw inside the coffin was not his uncle’s sleeping form laid atop white silk padding. Instead, what he saw was darkness more profound than any he’d ever before seen.”

On Halloween night, I observed more closely at the costume choice of the children and adult, because of sociality class. The 3 costume that got my attention were a police, devil, and Harley Quinn costume. All three were wearing by females, two adults, and one child. The two were wearing police and devil costume but the sexy version. The child was the Harley Quinn costume that involves wearing the short shorts and the long sleeve shirt. I don’t think neither of the 3 costumes portrayed a race, ethnicity or gender that they were misrepresenting. I do think that they were sexist because the costume portrayed the stereotypically way that female were their costumes. Also, think that the child costume was not appropriate for the age of the child