HALLOWEEN

Well in this moment I talk or rather I write to the Halloween. On 31 November in United States there is a tradition which was transmitted by Irish immigrants North America during the Great Irish Famine of 1840. The day is often associated with orange and black colors and is strongly linked to symbols like the Jack-o'-lantern. Typical activities include the famous Halloween trick or treating and costume parties, in addition to the bonfires, visiting haunted houses, jokes, reading scary stories and viewing horror films.

The tradition started in throughout Ireland and Britain, in this places have a long tradition of caving laterns from vegetables, particulary the turnip, mangelwurzel or swede. But not until 1837 does Jack o' Lantern appear as a term for a carved vegetable lanter, and the carved lantern doesn't become associated specifically with Halloween until 1866. Significantly, both occurred not in Ireland or Britan, but in Norte America.
 However, the party did not start mass held until 1921. That year was the first Halloween parade in Minnesota and then was followed by other states. The party took a progressive popularity in the coming decades.

The internationalization of Halloween came in the late 70's and early 80's thanks to movies and television series. In 1978, he premiered in the U.S. and worldwide The Night of Halloween, John Carpenter, a movie set on the eve of All Saints was a reference to horror films of series B, with countless sequels and imitations.

Today Halloween is one of the most important dates in U.S. and Canadian holiday calendar. Latin American countries, although they know the holiday of Halloween, have their own festivals and traditions that day even agree as to its meaning: union, or extreme closeness of the living world and the kingdom of the dead.

In Europe many cities where young people have decided to import the way in which the United States conceives Halloween-celebrating with parties and costumes. Although in some places, like England, the original party has taken root again.

The fact that this event has reached our days is, to some extent, the enormous commercial deployment and publicity engendered in American cinema. The image of American children running around the dark streets dressed as goblins, ghosts and demons, asking for sweets and candies to the inhabitants of a dark and quiet neighborhood, has been etched in the minds of many people.