How Adults Ruined Halloween

This article argues many points of how adults have ruined Halloween, and while at first it may appear like a ludicrous statement made by kids of teens, it actually has some truth behind it. With their being creeps and murderers who are willing to go to any extent to contaminate a candy (razor blades in malt bars, rat poisoning injected into Almond Joys) it has become increasingly dangerous for parents to send their kids out into the night without any supervision. Nowadays, parents bring around kids before it even gets dark, and they trick-or-treat with a constant monitor placed on what they take and who they are taking it from. Parents have been forced to be overprotective when it comes to that stuff because they always fear the worst. Also, parents seem to be overprotective when it comes to some of the basic Halloween traditions. Raw eggs and shaving cream, two harmless projectiles, have created fear in parents as if getting slapped in the face with a hand full of shaving cream is going to permanently scar their kid forever. It's shaving cream....relax.

The authors of this source, Rosecrans Baldwin and Gilt Taste, seem to side with the kids on this one. Even though they are adults, they like to bring up their childhood memories, and are appauled at how some of the traditions have been disallowed in recent years. They use pathos in this article to relate to the reader and make them think of their own traditions that may be objected to by parents in recent years. Overall, while they do acknowledge that some things on Halloween are over the top, they mostly complain about how badly adults ruin Halloween