WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HALLOWEEN?

All began with the Celts. The Celts were the people who lived in England two thousand years ago. In the 31th of October they celebrated the end of the harvest season called Samhain. That day it was also their New Year Eve's and it is intresting because they thought it was the day that de ghost from de hell came to the Earth! In the night of that they the Celts did some sprituals rituals to throw ghosts away and after some centuries, the Christians named the 1st of October "All Saints Day" because they celebrated that they could throw to the hell the ghosts again. All Saints Day was also named as Hallomas. Christians also called the 31th the All Hallows' Eve which finally was called Halloween.

If we move to the present, Halloween is a celebration observed in a number of countries on the 31th of October, where the children and some adults dress up in monsters, witches, ghosts, vampires,... and they go from the first house in the town untill the last one to ask: Treak or treat? Which means that the people who live in the house must give to them some sweets or otherwise they're going to do a bad joke in that house!

In Catalonia not many people celebrate it but in my school we watch an English film about Halloween.

MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN:

The part that I enjoyed a lot was:

Victor spends months working on creating a living, breathing creature, giving it dead body parts from various sources, including the body of the murderer, Waldman's own brain, a new leg in place of the missing one and a new eye to replace the damaged one. He is so obsessed with his work that not even a cholera outbreak tears him from it. Late one night, Victor finally gives his creation life, but he recoils from it in horror and renounces his experiments.

That night, the creature escapes, running off to the wilderness. He spends months hiding in the woods, living in an unwitting family's barn. As time progresses, the creature learns to read and speak, and even tries to win the family's love, but his efforts are in vain. Through a journal that the creature finds in the coat that he fled with, he learns of the circumstances of his creation and that Victor Frankenstein is responsible. He then burns down the family's abandoned cottage and heads to Geneva, vowing revenge on his creator.

Vocabulary:

Brink: Vora de, aprop de 

Trapped: atrapat

Alongside: al costat de Knowledge: coneixement

Dawn: Clarejar

Crew: tripulació

Reaching: Aconseguir

Moaning: gemegant

Voyage: Viatge

Vows:vot/veu

Venture: Empresa 

Beg: Demenar

Strike: Vaga 

Indulge: complaure

Rod: Barra

Pox: Verola

Among: Entre

Foolish: Ximple