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Monday, November 06, 2006

Changes of Halloween in Cartagena


Let's remember Halloween here in Cartagena about 7 years ago. In those times I still made part of the children that when out for candy. Everything was very safety. A lot of kids dressed up with bags that later they got full of candy. You could hear many people, that's right, not only kids, singing "Trick-or-Treat". Maids and moms were with their kids and some kids walked by themselves. Oh! And that's right! There were a lot of decorations. Now, I think, Halloween is no more a day for little kids in Cartagena.

I don't know what's happening but I've seen less kids Trick-or-Treating. Off Course some kids have stopped, but what about the new kids that trick-or-treat for the first time? This last Halloween I saw very few kids asking for candies. I saw a few families walking around, but the rest of families were in their balconies or something. But I think I know the reason where most kids had gone. This reason is also another change of Halloween.

Another big change of Halloween in Cartagena is that it is not very safe. There are a lot of kids throwing gunpowder in the streets. It was impossible to pass by there. Kids and teenagers become crazy there throwing flour, eggs, and gumpowder to the cars, constructions, houses, and to each other! One friend of mine got a burn. There was an adult woman that I heard calling the police. She seem scared.The police had to pass by many times. However, the police was very violent with the kids.The friends of the kids taken by the police threw gunpowder to them and yelled them bad words. I think safety is the greatest change.

I think it is good to have Halloween spirit and dress up, even if you don't go out. However, in such a day that it is so dangerous for kids to ask for candy, everyone lose the spirit. This brings to another change, decoration. People are not happy anymore. This makes them stop decorating because they are not interested in Halloween. In conclusion, Halloween has changed with the pass of years and people have lost their spirit, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun. Go out or stay in your house and spend time with your friends like that you can have a good memory.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

My Response To Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street is a story I read in my class and that has a clear message. There are two figures at the end of the story: Figure one and figure two. They say something that lets me think that the author, Rod Serling , is talking by them. They say that the people in Maple street try to find the most dangerous enemy which is actually themselves. The figures say this because they see the people being very violent, attacking each other... even making Charlie's head bleed! Also they say that Maple street is not unique because there are a lot like that in the world and that wherever they go they'll find these Maple Streets, and this is because of the people's attitude that is very common.

This is the message because I think that what the author is trying to outstand in the story is the atitude of the people and the way they respond to their problem, which is very common to the way many other people would have respond. In life today, that is very common. In many groups, like in the family, in the classroom, with your friends, this happens. There is a problem that nobody is sure how started. Nobody is going to be calmed unleast there is a good answer to their questions. This frustration to get your questions answered may even take you to ridiculous answers, like happens in the story. In conclusion, I can tell this message still is important today because I've live it and I know much other people live it, because some places I go I see conflicts just because people are trying to find out who is guilty.

"Monsters are Due in Maple Street" or "The Twilight Zone", is a story from 1960. I would change some things to make this play more modern. The author should consider that some places have electric plants. Something more is that if other equipment, other than the electric, should be affected by the blackout. For example something with battery like a cell phone,an ipod, or a videogame. This would make the story more modern. Also the setting could be changed. If the events happened in a city more people would be affected. More places like stores and restaurants and more sources or transportation like buses would make the story more ineteresting.If the first man would have got to the moon in the time Rod Serling wrote the play, more things of outer space would be known by Tommy and he wouldn't have thought of the alien thing.