Halloween Persuasive Essay

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When it comes to Halloween, many will think of youngsters dressed as their favorite cartoon character or superhero. However, Halloween is not exclusive to only the young. While the sight is not common, there are an abundant of teens and young adults who have an attachment to the annual tradition. Halloween being not a time to divide, but instead an evening to unify as a community, and relish a night and the amusement the night brings. Sadly, there are those in power who wish to put a prohibition on kids of a certain age to go trick-or-treating. Halloween can be a time where young adults can catch a break. For the sake of preserving youth, while in the phase of adolescence, an age limit on trick-or-treating will have an unfair reasoning and …show more content…

This phase almost always starts once the child hits 13 years of age and ends in the early twenties. Those in this phase must leave behind the many traditions they partake in as a child, and they start to realize harsh realities, such as not everything being as simple as it used to seem through a child's eyes. To add salt to the wound, while going through a drastic change in their life, as kids are anticipated to uncouple from the holiday which made them happy as a child. One year children are celebrating a day to which they are anticipating, and the next year are penned inside their home for an entire night, hearing the laughters of children's right outside their window. And for what reason? Is the law supposed to hinder young adults touch with nostalgia and youth? Or perhaps the purpose is to cut down on crime rates? Whatever the case may be, there are laws already in place for vandalism; but, the problem is there being not enough fear in people to not break the law. So it would be in our best interest to work on our current laws, instead of making an entire new law. Why punish everyone for a crime they did not commit? While also making us seem more diligent, not ratifying this law will not only make young adults happy, but bring communities

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