1. Research how Halloween began and post a link to the website you are quoting (no Wikipedia allowed!).
2. You were to write a psychological thriller this week using your vocabulary words. Under your Halloween History, include a brief synopsis of your story and ONE sentence from your story using a vocabulary word. Write the vocabulary word in ALL CAPS.
3. This is "Fear Week." We examined the fears of the characters in The Help in addition to our own and those of our stories' protagonists. In your own words, explain the phenomena with fear. Why do people enjoy being frightened and morbid at Halloween time? Why are we more interested in a flawed character with fears (like Skeeter - a round, dynamic character), than someone who is idealistic and seemingly perfect (like Mary Jane in "Spiderman" - a flat, static character)?
The holiday's origins date back to "the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain." Roughly 2,000 years ago, a people known as the Celts lived in the area now divided among three modern-day countries: the United Kingdom, Northern France, and Ireland. The Celts began their new year on November 1, meaning October 31 was their New Year's Eve. According the History Channel, "the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred" that night.
ReplyDeleteBonfires and animal sacrifices were common, as were costumes "typically consisting of animal heads and skins." Eventually, the Romans conquered the Celts, and Samhain was combined with other holidays. Later, as Christianity became more powerful, Pope Boniface IV put a new tilt on the event. He designated November 1 "All Saints' Day" -- a day when followers could honor saints and martyrs. This celebration was also called "All-Hallows," and the night before (October 31) was known as "All-Hallows' Eve." Later, it became known as Halloween.
These days, Halloween is mostly known as a day when kids throw dental hygiene out the window and go hog-wild with candy. The origin of trick-or-treating is somewhat disputed, but we invite you to check out this essay by Isaac Bonewits. All the possibilities are covered with a minimum amount of trickery.
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my story is about being alone. this guy is alone and then he finally gets the courage to meet someone and does and isn't alone anymore.
Like I am an unseen SUPERNATURAL entity; an APPARITION of some sort.
i think that we like to be scared for the fact of excitement and adrenaline. people love to scare their self and get a kick out of doing it to others. people like people like skeeter more than maryjane for one simple fact, simplicity. maryjane is simple, you know what she's going to do next. with skeeter, you never know, it leaves you not only wondering, but guessing.
-katieoquinn
-How Halloween Began??
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-Synopsis Story.......
One cold halloween night a group of kids went trick-o-treating and scream REPRESSED from jumping out at the kids, many girls had a BANSHEE voice but no one could hear them.
-Why Do More People Like Being Morbid at Halloween Time??
Some people like to be scared and scary becasue its a joy to it.Also, people like to go and eat ans trick-o-treat for candy.
~AshleyOrtega
It seems likely that many of the traditions that we associate with Halloween were brought to North America by the influx of immigrants in the mid 1800’s. During this time in history, many people from all parts of Europe were coming to make new lives for themselves in America. These immigrants brought with them many of their own traditions and customs that were familiar to them from their home countries. Some of these traditions were very old and had been passed down for centuries. Halloween essentially has become a mix of many European folklore rituals as well as Celtic practices.Because of the extremely superstitious nature of these ancient people, it became necessary to take certain precautions during “All Hallows Eve” in order to protect oneself from any evil spirits that they thought might want to cause harm. It became commonplace for masks or disguises to be worn during the festival of Samhain as a measure to ward off any spirit that might have bad intentions. It was thought that if one were dressed to appear as if they were already dead, the evil spirits might assume they were one of the ghostly spirits roaming about and leave them alone. These disguises were probably the earliest roots of what we now know as Halloween costumes. The darkness associated with traditional Halloween garb certainly can be grasped when you understand the roots of the dressing up tradition. Another critical part of the celebration of Samhain was the lighting of large bonfires. These bonfires were thought to be a cleansing ritual for these people and various symbolic acts would be performed during the fires, such as throwing the bones of newly slaughtered livestock into the flames and other forms of sacrifice. During these large bonfires, many insects, rodents, and bats were attracted to the flames and the heat that was being generated by them. The clear association between bats and Halloween can perhaps be attributed to these early ancient rituals.
ReplyDeleteThe Celts also are probably responsible for the ritual of carving pumpkins that is largely practiced at Halloween. The Celts, however, used turnips to make rudimentary lanterns, as they were readily available to them. They carved ghoulish faces into them, once again, to hopefully scare off evil spirits.
Site : http://www.halloweenexpress.com/history-of-halloween.php
My story is about being alone. A girl is being haunted by a spirit which turns out to be her alone and has to deal with deaths.
I used words like BEWITCHED, BANSHEE,DERVISH,REPRESSED,and APPARITION.
I think people enjoy scaring people because they think its funny and exciting seeing how little ones look like. People like Skeeter is more than Maryjane for a fact. Maryjane is guessing while Skeeter is more helpful then others.
-Marybel Morales
In an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead was were Halloween began. The Celtic people divided the year by four major holidays. According to their calendar, the year began on a day corresponding to November 1st on our present calendar. The date marked the beginning of winter. Since they were pastoral people, it was a time when cattle and sheep had to be moved to closer pastures and all livestock had to be secured for the winter months. Crops were harvested and stored. The date marked both an ending and a beginning in an eternal cycle. The festival marking this date was to celebrate the dead, not the candy. When modernization took place, it turned into a day of fun, fears, and candy.
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My short story is mainly about a woman who fears to turn old and ugly. She kills her children but her husband kills her. Her family does not have a happy ending but she does according to herself.
Sentence: "She could cook it in a CAULDRON for her husband, hide it in a CRYPT,or even throw it in a nearby creek."
I believe people enjoy getting frightened, because it is a season of spookiness and suspense. The atmosphere of the season conveys terror. In addition, Halloween is fun! At most times, people enjoy dynamic characters more than flat characters. Dynamic characters include suspense and unexpected things, while flat characters are more predictable. Flat characters are boringggg!
1. During the Samhain(large festival), they celebrated by burning fruits, vegetables, grain, and animals as gifts for the gods in huge bonfires in hope of a successful new year. It was believed that during the night of Samhain, that the dead could walk among the living, and that the living could ask the dead questions about the future year. They believed some of the spirits were evil, so they wore costumes with animal heads to scare the spirits away and protect themselves.
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2. I wake up being invisible to everyone around me and don’t know what goes on. Not knowing what to do and why this was happening. I find out that I am dead, but I didn’t know what had happened. The only thing I remembered was that there was a man approaching me with something in his hand. I find out that the man was my own father that murdered me. He was the one that made my life blow away.
Sentence: I am afraid that something MORBID will happen.
3. I belief that we like to get frightened and get treats. Dynamic characters have suspense and something unexpected can happen while Flat character stays the same and are predictable.
-How Halloween Began??
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The holiday's origins date back to "the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain." Roughly 2,000 years ago, a people known as the Celts lived in the area now divided among three modern-day countries: the United Kingdom, Northern France and Ireland. The Celts began their new year on November 1 meaning October 31 was their New Year's Eve. According the History Channel "the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred" that night. I think people enjoy scaring people because they think its funny and exciting seeing how little ones look like. People like Skeeter is more than Maryjane for a fact. Maryjane is guessing while Skeeter is more helpful then others.
1.) Halloween or all saints day. Hallo means holly and ween means eve. The day before the holly day, martin luther had done somthing great on oct 31 _ MY.bivans
ReplyDelete2) my story is about me dead but i dident know I was dead I ended up finding out at the end. a line with a vocab word in my story "It all felt so supernatural"
3.)I guess people enjoy being scared because of the rush they get into their body, it's something to look forward to and i believe people like round characters because it keeps you into what's going on you're more interested in a round character by the things they do then a flat character because its normal
-Barbara ortiz
1. http://www.holybible.com/resources/halloween.htm
ReplyDelete2. My story was about a girl who was afraid of the dark. She did not want to stay home alone so she called her friend to come over. But she was so scared of the dark she did not answer the door when her friend came over, so her friend got hurt by someone bad. My story was about the girl having fear that her mother would never return or would leave her forever.
I looked out the window to check and see if anyone was here yet but all I discovered was a view of a CRYPT, outside my window.
-Mishonda Jackson
1.The festival of Halloween has its roots in the Samhain, which was celebrated in medieval Ireland and Scotland and it means summer's end. It means the end of the lighter half of the year and the beginning of the darker half. Samhain comes from the Celtic polytheism, which dates back to Roman times.
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2.I was quite REPRESSED when I received a text telling me there was an ambulance outside my dads house.
1. Halloween's origin comes from an old Celtic holiday called Samhain. Much like our traditional Halloween, they also enjoyed dressing up and receiving treats.
ReplyDelete"The Druids celebrated this holiday "with a great fire festival to encourage the dimming Sun not to vanish" and people "danced round bonfires to keep evil sprits away, but left their doors open in hopes that the kind spirits of loved ones might join them around their hearths"." This shows that, even then, the holiday revolved around death. It's a pretty morbid holiday to celebrate.
2.My "thriller" is truthfully not very frightening. It has more to do with the social anxiety and terrorizing people for giggles. "I screamed like a banshee in the ears of teachers, which was fun, especially when their classrooms were as quiet as a crypt."
3. Fear is a nervousness towards a certain thing, whether it be literal or psychological. I do not know why people enjoy being frightened, but they do. It might have something to do with the adrenalin produced in a scary situation. Some people are wierd, and enjoy these things. I think that the reason why we like flawed characters better than perfect ones, is due to the face that it is more relatable to our lives. I don't want to hear about someone's perfect life, because it makes mine seem even worse.
History of Halloween: http://www.albany.edu/~dp1252/isp523/halloween.html
***Brendan Rhodes***