www.inkthinkerblog.com — Have you ever thought about how weird Halloween actually is? All year long we tell our kids not to take candy from strangers, and then on October 31, we dress them up in bizarre outfits and take them door to door in the dark to beg for treats from folks they don’t know. Think of it this way: If your neighbors hung a corpse mannequin from the tree in their front yard, set up Styrofoam headstones with severed limbs strewn about, and played a motion-activated recording of spooky sounds from their front porch in May, you’d think they were insane; if they do it in October, they’re clever.
Prompt: Take a common tradition, like Halloween, and analyze it by breaking it into its component parts and discussing them individually. What do you discover? What do you think it says about tradition and society in general? How, if at all, does it change how you view the tradition?
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