Celebrating Thanksgiving: Similarities And Differences

How do you celebrate Thanksgiving? Did you know it's probably different than how The Early Americans celebrated Thanksgiving. Recently I learned that I celebrate different then they Early Americans and some of my Friends and their families. The Early Americans were less fortunate them people today and they didn’t use forks to eat their meal and they certainly didn’t have an oven to cook their food. I got a chance to sit down with Grace Baggerly and talk to her about the similarities and differences between our Thanksgiving celebrations. We don’t do much things in the same way but we do both get together with our families and eat all together and have some cherishing moments. Another similarity that we both have is that both of our families serve turkey and ham as the main meat that we eat that night. We did have a lot of differences too, for instance, my family likes to fly kites after our supper and her …show more content…
We both talked about the similarities and differences for each of our Thanksgiving celebrations. We both leave go somewhere else to celebrate with the family we haven’t seen in awhile and we also play with our cousins while the food is being prepared. She helps set the table and place the food where it needs to go but at my Thanksgiving dinner I help cook the food not set it. Jessica is still at the “little kids table” but I haven’t sat there in two years. I’m pretty happy I don’t have to sit at a card table in the television room away from everyone else sits any more. I wonder where Jessica’s “kids table” is at. In her family the guys sit down and watch football while waiting for the food to be finished, but the guys in my family sit outside and talk about stuff going on in their lives. They mostly just talk about their kids though. I have realized That most people don’t do the same things as my family on Thanksgiving, I guess my family is just old