Day of the Dead is better to celebrate than Halloween. Day of the Dead celebrates the death of someone who has pasted before in the family or friends. Halloween celebrates an old festival from 2,000 years ago but we still enjoy it today. These holidays may be similar, but are very different in many ways. Halloween and Day of the Dead are two similar but different holidays celebrated; consisting of where it started, how people feel on this day, how people dress up, and what other things do they do to celebrate. Halloween and Day of the Dead are celebrated in different countries but where did they start from. Halloween is celebrated in United States of America. Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico. Where did these holidays …show more content…
Halloween is celebrated with happy feelings because the children love enjoying this holiday but also fear from being scared. Day of the Dead is happy and sad feelings because they are celebrating the dead but also mourning the loss. During Halloween children run around laughing having fun while during the beginning it was more of a sad time mourning the loses (Wikimedia Commons). During Day of the Dead most people are happy enjoying the holiday celebrating the dead (Ancona). People have different feelings on this holidays that most people do not realize. People’s feelings can be seen through the way they dress up during these …show more content…
On Halloween most people go trick-or-treating to got plenty of candy. On Day of the Dead, most people make a lot of food, including pun de muertus “bread of the dead” and sugar shaped as skulls. There are a lot of activities people do to celebrate Halloween. Halloween is filled with carving pumpkins, bonfires, costume parties, apple bobbing, and lots of games (Wikimedia Commons). Day of the Dead is more of a spiritual celebrate. They play games and have fun, but they also respect the dead by giving lots of food and placing it on the altar (Ancona). It shows the different activities that people do to celebrate each holiday. These holidays are very similar in ways but also different in how they
Foreigners have more trouble understanding Dia de Los Muertos than any of Mexico's other celebrations. At first glance, they see Day of the Dead decorations which are colored paper garlands, little skeletons performing daily tasks and sugar skulls inscribed with names, which remind them of Halloween. Other tourists discover that much like Memorial or Remembrance Day in the US, families here visit, clean and decorate graves of loved ones for the November 1 and 2 holidays. Many families honor their ancestors and dead with different traditions, which I will be telling u about.
Why do people celebrate death? Many people including myself have wondered this, and when I first heard of the mexican holiday Dia De Los Muertos. Translated in english, day of the dead is a holiday where instead of mourning lost ones they remember their lost ones by making alters, decorating their graves with things they used to like or their favourite food and celebrate their life. This mexican tradition is now celebrated throughout the united states aswell and this year we decided to dedicate alters to people we lost in the battle against police brutality. We have lost so many souls in the past decade that a black lives matter movement was created. Its sad that it even had to get to this point but all we can do now is fight for change and
In Night of the Living Dead, the zombies were eventually eliminated. Or were they? Theorists argue that the monster’s elusiveness is due to its physical, psychological and social characteristics that cross the lines of classification. Human’s innate fear of the unknown is due to their inability to make a distinction or draw a clear conclusion. This is explained further in Jeffrey Cohen’s second thesis in “Monster Theory” that claims that; “the monster never escapes” (Cohen, 14). The zombie as a monster can never be destroyed completely and if it is, it leaves a remnant the make people feel uncertain of its destruction. Base on Cohen’s theory, the zombie’s different interpretation allows it to emerge in other forms (a faster, smarter zombie?)
Day of the dead is mainly celebrated in homes and graveyards. But as the years pass this celebration expands more. From street parties, festivals, and parades. It has also expanded to different countries than just Mexico, such as more of South America and even in the United States. As people migrated to different places throughout the years their traditions did as well. For example Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles holds an annual
Holidays like Halloween and Christmas are celebrated differently here in the U.S. In Mexico, Day of the Dead is celebrated and not Halloween. Grande describes a typical Day of the Dead celebration, “We would have been decorating our altar with candles and marigolds and plates of food for our dead relatives to enjoy” (177), in addition, people celebrate by visiting the grades of the deceased. Christmas in Mexico, the presents are exchanged on the Day of the Three Wise Men, January 6. She recounts, “kids looked forward to, when our bellies would be stuffed like piñata with peanuts, jicamas, candy, oranges, and sugarcane” (135), and churches reenact the journey of Mary and Joseph to
“Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.” This quote by William Shakespeare accurately sums up many cultures’ feelings towards modern-day Halloween. But where did Halloween originate? While there are several different ideas, the one that seems to be the most popular is that Halloween originated from an ancient Celtic rite called Samhain (pronounced sah-win). Halloween has strong roots in Paganism, which is the cause of negative connotations with Christian religion. Many modern Halloween traditions and symbols started
In conclusion, Halloween is celebrated worldwide, but some countries celebrate it differently. Most celebrate by honoring the dead in some way. Some celebrate like the U.S. But we all celebrate the holiday in some
The whole idea that Halloween is held to, the spooky nature, has a lot to do with the Celts; this was a celebration for the dead in Celtic culture. The Celts believed that souls of the dead both malignant and pure dwelled on the physical realm on those specific days celebrated, therefore a door was open between a physical and a spiritual realm for the time being. The Celts held rituals on these dates, they celebrated and feasted; October 31st was the eve before their celebrations, November 1 was their new years. Sam...
This article is entitled “Halloween Provides A Look Into Human Psychology” which was written by Tania Lombrozo. This article talks about Halloween and how it relates to human psychology. Halloween is celebrated every year on the last day of the month of October. This year, Halloween so happily fell on a Monday. Although it’s a school night for most young children they still walked around in costumes saying “trick or treat” while knocking on doors for candy. Every year people turn their houses into haunted houses with scary decorations to celebrate Halloween. The decorations for Halloween include carved pumpkins, ghosts, skeletons, skulls, and much more. On this day you will see many children and some times adults dressed up in costumes like
The supernatural roam the Earth at this time. Halloween is a time when supernatural creatures walk the Earth. Halloween originated from a religious disagreement, it has many traditions and urban legends.
Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on the 31st of October. Millions of people around the world celebrate Halloween, incorporating their own beliefs and traditions into the holiday. For some Halloween is seen as a day to celebrate those that have passed from this life, while others see the holiday as a descendant of pagan rituals and beliefs. Regardless of how you celebrate the holiday, the history of Halloween remains the same.
Halloween started about 2,000 years ago as the night before the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, where it is believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. Also according to the article the history or Halloween “Druids (Celtic persist) built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes.”. Then by the 8th century the Christian turn Samhain into All Saints Day or All Hallows and the night before then became All Hallows Eve. Then it was later changed into Halloween. Then the American version of Halloween came about with celebrations
Most Halloween traditions that we take part it have evolved from some type of Celtic custom. However, these traditions have changed quite a bit. Halloween has evolved from a very religious holiday to a holiday that mainly focuses on candy and fun. Mostly because when the Irish immigrants came to America, many of their traditions got mixed with the traditions of other cultures. This is the main reason that the traditions have changed so
Halloween is a holiday which has been around for a lot longer than many may think. Even the traditions which seem so modern and economically rooted are almost as old as the tradition of Halloween itself. There is a lot of confusion as to when the tradition of Halloween began. Many think that Halloween began with the Celts. The Celts celebrated Samhain which was a holiday that symbolized the end of the time of the light and the beginning of the time of the dark. During the time of the dark it was said that the wall between the spirit world and that of the living was weakened and spirits were able to obtain access to the living more easily. Hence this could be one of the reasons children today think of Halloween as a scary holiday, they unknowingly are going along with ancient traditions.
Halloween developed more and more till the late 19th century when the phrase “trick or treat” came into the picture when immigrants came to America and asked people for food in return they would pray for the family's dead relatives. As you can see now people celebrate Halloween a little different now but better yet think of it more as a fun and silly night where you eat candy, get hyper and look at others people creative costumes to get inspired for next year to enjoy with friends and family.