Halloween Informative Essay

Halloween is a holiday that is originally believed to have started with Celtic origins as the holiday Samhain in which people would “light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts” 1. The tradition of lighting bonfires has ceased in the modern day but the practice of wearing costumes is still popular and is what Halloween is known for around the world.

In America, people associate Halloween with the practice of trick-or-treating in which kids go knock on doors around their neighborhoods saying “trick-or-treat!” in the hope that they will receive candy. The way the tradition goes is that if the kids don’t receive candy (treats) then instead they will do some sort of prank (tricks) as a punishment for them not receiving candy however this

According to someone I met in Shibuya, legend has it that before all of Shibuya turned into an enormous Halloween street party, there were clubs in Shibuya that would host small Halloween parties. The problem was that once these clubs had reached full capacity, the people waiting outside would start partying in the streets since they couldn’t get in. At first, the local Tokyo police would try to stop street parties but as years went on the amount of people that joined in for the debauchery increased so much that the police could no longer do anything to stop it. To compromise, the police now close off the street to try and facilitate the partying. This probably allows people to believe that at least just for Halloween day, its socially acceptable to go all out with partying and especially with alcohol consumption. But as everyone knows, excessive drinking can lead to vomiting and passing out which was a very frequent occurrence. I saw vomit on the ground, witnessed people vomit on the ground, witnessed people vomit on themselves, and witnessed people pass out in the streets. And it wasn’t as if it was only one or two people doing this. I saw at least 10 people who were completely knocked out on the side of the street and the number of people passed out waiting at the entrance to the station made it feel like I had stepped into a horror film (fitting for Halloween I