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Compare and Contrast Essay Brainstorm ► October ► Jack o' lantern ► Dead ► Remember ► Monster ► Costume ► Candies ► marketing ► Catrina ► Holiday ► Celebrate ► food

Halloween and the day of the dead. There are several similarities and differences between Halloween and the day of the dead. l.-Purpose of the holiday in each country. a) purpose oftheday of the dead . b) Purpose of Halloween. ll.-Activities in Halloween and day of the dead. a) Altars and Mexican food for dead people. b) Ask for candies wearing a costume. lll.-The most common customs a) Catrina b) monsters and jack o' lantern "Darkness falls across the land the midnight hour is close at hand Creatures **crawl** in search of blood to terrorize y'all neighborhood."- (lyrics from Michael Jackson's song). Even though Halloween and the day of the dead seem to be the same holiday, these two have a lot of differences. The main difference **among** these holidays is that the most usual tradition for Halloween is **trick-or-treating**, wearing costumes, and going door to door asking for candy, unlike the main purpose of the day of the dead that is to pray for and remember friends and family who have died. Also people celebrate Day of the dead around the entire world.

In first place the day of the dead is a Mexican holiday and the principal **purpose** is to remember dead people, **whereas** Halloween is a celebration which you can celebrate in many ways, **to illustrate** my friend Leo who instead of ask for candy, he prefer to tell stories and watch horror films. Day of the dead is one of the more emotional holidays in Mexico; On the other hand, Halloween is an American holiday and most of the people think this is just marketing. These two holidays are kind of scary and exciting. There are a lot of things for doing and you can do what you prefer.

Another activity in the day of the dead is that people in Mexico make altars and cook Mexican food for the dead people; in contrast, people in United States do not remember dead people they ask for candy in the streets. Other activities in Halloween are costume parties, watching scary movies, going to haunted houses and activities such as **hydrides**. In Mexico another activity is that people go to cemeteries to be with the souls of dead people. A habitual costume is carrying their favorite food and beverages as well as photos.

These two countries have many customs and the way in which you celebrate is all up to you. In my personal opinion both are very interesting, for example the most frequent custom in Mexico is costumer like the Catrina and in the united states the people wear costumes of monsters like jack o' lantern, witch etc. The celebration takes place on November 2nd and Halloween on October 31th. The most common candy in Mexico is the sugar skull (calaberita), in United States the candy apple (apple cover with caramel).It is also possible that people give other kind of candy to the kids

A common symbol of the holiday is the skull in Mexico, and the Catrina the most typical costume, **meanwhile i**n United States the most usual symbol is the jack o' lantern and the most characteristic customs are figures such as monsters, ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. **Due** to Mexico and United States are neighboring countries Mexicans can adopt costumes from the other country as American too. To conclude in my point of view these two holidays have a lot of interesting things to learn and I really like to celebrate both. This is the perfect excuse to be in touch with scary things.