Day of the Dead

holidays, like All Saints Day, Easter, and Christmas, and some small celebrations such as birthdays, are celebrated in both countries. They are celebrated differently, but the meaning of the holidays are the same. The Day of the Dead is another name for the Catholic holiday, All Saints’ Day. All Saints’ Day is a holiday celebrated by the Catholic Church on November 1. People decorate the gravestones of their past relatives. El Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, takes place November 1st…

sisters would prepare to celebrate a Mexican tradition called The Day of The Dead. It takes place during October 31st to November 2nd. This is a celebration were family members take the time to reminisce about their loved ones who passed away. They do so by setting altars in their homes along with decorations, flowers, and the deceased favorite foods, drinks, and sweets. Back home, a few weeks before the celebration we would spend several days at the cemetery close to where my grandmother lives.…

the person they love is gone. Day of the Dead is a holiday which demonstrates this idea as men and women in Mexico celebrate their dead loved ones rather than mourn them. Literature works such as The Last Time We Say Goodbye, “That Time of Year Thou Mayest in Me Behold,” and “Sonnet - To Zante” show the power of love and how each person is affected differently by death. A holiday which demonstrates a different way to celebrate lost loved ones would be The Day of the Dead (El Dia de Los…

It was November 1st, also known as "The Day of the Dead" ironically. Halloween was just the night before, kids ran up and down the streets in pure glee, receiving free candy from smiling elders and not so happy teenagers. But the people of Goulcrest woke up to more than just stomach aches and cavities the next day. The bodies of Amanda Longstaff and Mike Herald were found in the middle of Crimson Avenue. Both suffered blunt force…

Day of the Dead and Halloween are both very similar but different holidays. Although, based on most of the information and background knowledge I know about both holidays I believe they are more different than similar. I believe the holidays are more different than similar because they express two completely different reasons for being celebrated. The first topic that shares either a similarity and difference for both holidays is the variety and types of food that are being offered and handed…

Halloween and Day of the Dead are thought to be similar because they’re around the same time of year, but when you look closer, the two holidays are very different. The Day of the Dead celebrates dead relatives while Halloween celebrates the end of summer. The first difference is that the Day of the Dead celebrates dead relatives; anyone who celebrates Day of the Dead sets up a shrine for their dead relative (or relatives) so that their spirit can find it’s way back to their family.…

bike to the park. The sun is shining. The birds are chirping. A dead body is decomposing… Quentin Jacobson and Margo Roth Spiegelman, run home to tell their parents. Quentin wants to push the whole finding-a-dead-body thing from his mind, but Margo finds out the man killed himself and wonders why. Nine years later, Margo, now eighteen, comes to Quentin's window in the middle of the night. They haven't really hung out since Dead Body Day, but now Margo needs a favor. She needs Quentin to drive…

Celebrating Day of the Dead Day of the dead is a big celebration in all mexico. This famous holiday is celebrating on November two. This day is to pray and to remember the people who passed away. November first is dedicated to babies and little kids who had die, and November two is to remember the adults and old people who had die too. Most mexican families dedicate this day to make an altar conmemorating to the person they loved. The altar, in someway, is a manner to communicate with the soul…

Dia de los Meurtos - more commonly known as the Day of the Dead – is a traditional festivity dating back almost 3,000 years, that is practiced all over Mexico and in certain parts of the United States. The story behind this idiosyncratic holiday is that over 500 years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadors found what are now the remnants of the Aztec Empire, they had encountered the indigenous peoples participating in an activity that seemed to mock death. This ritual was in honor of their goddess…

In the article “The Day of the Dead: How Death Became a National symbol” Stephen T. Woodman discusses death within Mexico and how it became an important symbol in Mexican culture. Woodman discusses the four main reasons as to why death is such and important symbol in the Mexican culture. The first of four reasons Woodman shares is based on religious beliefs of pre-Conquest Mexico. This is when the Aztecs made human sacrifices for the Gods in order for the earth to be born and to maintain the…