A comparison between Halloween and The Day of the Dead

Our project is about these two celebrations because they are similar in some ways but they are very different in meanings.

The Day of the Dead and Day of All Saints are Hispanic countries festivals, like in Argentina, held on 1st and 2nd November. Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31st as if souls were on their way back to earth. The Day of the Dead is a SERIOUS PARTY in honor of the dead and sometimes tries to make the sorrow of death into a celebration of the lives of dead people. The memory of dead things is welcome to enjoy a for short time the pleasures of the earth, such as preparing their favorite food, meals, desserts and drinks in a big table.

As a costume on the Day of the Dead we visit the cemeteries where rest of our ancestors.

Halloween originally is a European tradition. It was believed that on that night the veil of the spirits of the dead and the living was thinnest. People wore costumes made of animals’ skins and heads slaughtered in order to scare the evil spirits.

Nowadays Halloween has many commercial purposes and is a fun party in which children and adults get dressed up and go from door to door asking for sweets.

Later we show the students a power point with pictures representing these celebrations and their differences. And this is the end of the project.

PICTURES

The day of the dead

HALLOWEEN          

      

NAMES: Vilca, Natalia

             Pastrana, Viviana

            Cardozo, Jacqueline