Colten Barrett Comp II 9/5/2012 Dr. Smith Thanksgiving Dinner Thanksgiving is a holiday filled with feasting, joy, bonding and memories. My family along with millions of other American families every year, come together to celebrate everything that we have been grateful for throughout the year. We celebrate by feasting on some of our most savored dishes; some dishes happen to be a family tradition and are served at every Thanksgiving. Every year my family celebrates Thanksgiving at my grandma and grandpa’s house. By the time every one gets to Grandma’s house, the house is already filling up with fabulous smells of pie, meat, and other wonderful foods and to top it off the smell of fresh cut grass blowing in for the opened windows throughout the house.
Our family is all dressed up, and I can smell the evening’s food rooms away and hear the ending sounds of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on the TV downstairs. We seem like a classic, cookie-cutter family. And then the holiday really begins. My grandma is usually the first to arrive, complete with her leopard-print duffle bag she carried everywhere with her. After her I hear the front door open again and know that, from this point on, the house won’t have another moment of silence.
Most people barbeque chicken, hotdogs, hamburgers, ribs, and much more, but everyone has king cakes which are only in Louisiana. The smell of the people barbequing is marvelous. Everyone has an abundance of food; therefore no one goes hungry and maybe have enough for leftovers the next day. After everything is over; the floats and eating, people pack their chairs, towels, bags of beads, barbeque pits and head on home after an exhaustive day. When they get home they take the beads out the bags and keep the ones they like and throw the rest in the bag, and the little kids look through the bags to find toys that they can play with.
Dumas stated, “Displaying the hospitality that Iranians so cherish, my father extended a dinner invitation to everyone who called”(321). “As a result, we found ourselves feeding dozens of people every weekend”(Dumas 321). Her mom intended dinner starting on Monday for the next weekend. Since she didn’t drive, her husband took her shopping every Tuesday for all the provisions she needed for the dinner. Availability and freshness of food and herbs determined how long the shopping trip would be.
Each band wears different colors and features cheerleaders. Fiesta Catracha takes place this same day: typical Honduran foods such as beans, tamales, baleadas, cassava with chicharron, and tortillas are offered. On Christmas Eve, the people reunite with their families and close friends to have dinner, then give out presents at midnight. In some cities fireworks are seen and heard at midnight. On New Year's Eve there is food and "cohetes", fireworks and festivities.
Thanksgiving has been a ritual in which Americans come together and celebrate. Thanksgiving ritual comes from the original 1621 harvest meal, puritans and Native Indians originated together by giving thanks for their great harvest. Since then, Americans have continued the ritual of having dinner and giving thanks for their success throughout the year. Thanksgiving has become a ritual of gathering with family and friends feasting on a meal by giving thanks for our prosperity. People have the ritual of watching football, having dinner and family gatherings.
Every year, as was tradition in my mexican- american family, the person in my family who’s birthday it was would receive gifts such as baked sweets, candy, and fruit. After that, family and friends would be invited over to spend the evening eating and drinking and celebrating. That year, the festivities were sure to be greater to celebrate me coming of age, but
The film “Pieces of April” has well illustrated that Bobby and April are looking forward to April’s family to come over to celebrate the festival. By showing a scene where both of them prepare a turkey in the early morning highlights that how important it is to have a family reunion. Moreover, Bobby pastes a poster with a picture of a turkey in the front door to liven up the spirit of the festival. Also, he thinks that it will be more formal and appropriate to dress up to meet April’s family for the first time. Therefore, he goes out and gets a suit for himself.
They celebrate New Year’s Eve with barbecues, and fireworks, they also eat a spoonful of lentil for luck, and carry money in their pockets for adventure and riches. They celebrate Easter by having huasos accompany the priests.
Parents pay for food for the teens to eat. Teens won't go hungry because their parents buy food that they like and that they will eat. Parents also pay for the house, apartment, or condo they have so that teenagers have a place to sleep so they aren't sleeping in the streets or on a park bench. On Christmas and birthdays, teenagers usually ask for nice sometimes expensive gifts such as a game console, a new TV, or a laptop. Parents usually try to buy the things their child wants because they want to make their child happy.