Halloween Informative Speech

“Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!,” Donna Karan once wrote.

It was a cold, dark night, but this was not any night, tonight was Halloween. Every year my whole family goes to me Uncle Tom’s house for Halloween, to us Halloween is not just a night for trick or treating, no it's a night for scaring people. For Halloween my Uncle decorations his how extremely to try to make it the scariest on the block. He has all different animatronics, fog machines, and props to try and deck out his front yard. The decorations are not the only thing we use, in addition to those members of my family dress up and go out and scare the kids.

On a Halloween night six years ago, I first joined my family in scaring people. That year, I had a zombie costume it was basically a tattered green shirt and pants with plastic pieces attached to it. The first piece was located at my chest and stomach alike to a chest plate,

there was also a back plate and on the pants they were located on the knees and calves. I was doubtful of the costume when I first tried it on because I never wore a costume that was meant to be scary before, I had only worn Superman and Spiderman costumes. My thoughts were that no one would find it was scary and just laugh at me.
The night was cold, you could see your breath in the air.

With clouds in the sky all moonlight was blocked out with the only light coming from people's houses. This Halloween was the first year I was out scaring trick or treaters coming to my uncle's house. I at first I just walked around his small grass plot for a front yard trying to scare trick or treaters by walking up to them and growling. I was just thinking of how stupid I must of seemed, walking around growling like a dog, what were people thinking about me? With walking around not work I decided to do something else, I hid in the thick bushes that were planted along the walkway up to the house. I would stay totally still hiding in the bushes until someone came up and then I would pop out at them. This worked perfectly with almost everyone I popped out at got scared, some we just startled and others screamed and went running. Finally, I was scaring people, I thought, now people could think I was stupid because now I was getting the best of them making them feel dumb for being afraid of a seven year

old.
I stayed there for most of the night until I started to think what I was doing was kind of mean. I was scaring adults and kids alike without giving them any warning. It was Halloween, yes it was supposed to be spooky, but these people were coming up nicely to get candy and I would pop out. Some were scared to the point of where they would go running, or little children would be too scared to walk the rest of the way to get their treats. Subsequently, I decided to go out on the lawn again, still to scare people, but in a nicer way. I would attempt to act like a statue standing up easily to see and when people came up I would pretend lunge at them. Finally I had found a way to scare people but giving the person a chance to notice that I was there. By doing this about half the people would notice me and make comments that they didn’t think I was a person. Laughs came from most adults that noticed me and the one I scared, they would say how could they be so dumb. The children surprisingly, they were much more perceptive of me with most of the kids passing by knowing right away that I was a person in a costume, they would all laugh and be amazed at how “fake” I looked to them.
I realized that when I hiding in the bushes and I frightened someone they wouldn’t find it amusing, but naturally it would scare them. On the other hand, when I was out in the grass acting like a statue people would find it funny or be amazed by how fake I looked. From this experience I have learned something that I now always keep in mind. That you will feel better making someone feel positive than trying to make someone feel negative.