Halloween

I have never been a big fan of Halloween, even as a kid. But even if I was, I still would not like it at my age. I believe that the holiday is for kids, and that the popularity among older people is really just a cry for attention. Every year, certain kids decide to dress up. Some just wear a half-assed costume they put together at the last minute simply because they feel obligated to dress up. Others take time finding the loudest, most unique, and sometimes most revealing costume they can. This is how Halloween is rhetoric. The way people dress for Halloween says something about who they are, even if they dress a different way than usual. I think that a lot of times people wear costumes that reveal how they are in social situations or at parties, but they wear them to school, where people might have a completely different view of them. The obvious example is the way girls dress, buy guys are guilty, too. Many guys will dress up in something outrageous; the costume really seems to scream, "look at me!" Also, I have seen people dress up as something really obscene or offensive. In high school, I saw a kid dress up as a penis one year. Sometimes, they are people who do well in school and never get in trouble. When that day comes around, though, all previous impressions of someone might be lost when that person shows up in a revealing or offensive outfit. Costumes can give the wrong impressions of those who wear them due to that visual rhetoric.