Elie Wiesel came from a Jewish religious tradition of thousands of year which included many daily and weekly rituals. He was very close to his family and faith at the beginning of the book.
Does your family have any traditions that you do each year, perhaps for holidays or special occasions? What are the traditions and why do you do them?
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yeah, we do on holidays we go somewhere yanno. we usually go to my moms side of the family first then to my dads side, and i do them well because i have to.
ReplyDeletefor christmas we all go to my grandma's house and have dinner and open gifts. we have been doing it for as long as i can remember, but i dont know why it is such a tradition.
ReplyDeleteMy family does. Every Christmas eve i spend it with my mom and that side of the family. First i get all my gifts from my mom, then go to my aunts, then go to my memas. Then i sleep at my dad's christmas eve and get my gifts from him normally on christmas. Then we go to my aunts. This is done every year and hasn't changed for a few years. We do this so i get to see my whole family and get to spend equal time with them.
ReplyDeleteMy family and I do not really do any traditons during the year. During the holidays we just get together and have some parties. My only rituals are me waking up in the morning. I wake up and take a shower and then catch the bus.
ReplyDeleteOne tradition that my family has is that every Sunday my dad, aunt, uncle, cousins, grandparents, and I go to my great-grandparents house to visit. We eat lunch together and me and my cousins usually play soccer or football outside in the summer or video games or board games together in the winter while all the adults sit in the living room and talk.
ReplyDeleteOne tradition my family has is that I go see my father's side of the family almost every Christmas and Thanksgiving, which is the only time I see them each year.
ReplyDeleteEvery Thanksgiving and Christmas my family meets down at my Grandfathers house. My relatives come in from different states and we all enjoy eachothers company. Every summer, the third weekend of July, we have a family reunion. Hundreds of people show up at the family reunion and its one of the best weekends of the summer. My family is very close and spending time together is important to us.
ReplyDeleteThe only tradition I have is eating together with family or friends.
ReplyDeleteMy traditions are for the holidays people come over my house. I go to church on Christmas Day.
ReplyDeleteMy family has a couple of traditions that we do each year. One of our traditions is going to my aunts house on Christmas morning. Another one is every thanksgiving we go to my grams house.
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas Eve my family always makes homemade pizza and watches " National Lampoons Christmas Vacation". It sounds dumb but we've been doing it for many years now. Another rital i have is every morning, i always check if I have any text messages from the night before and plug my phone in because i always forget to charge it at night time. I have many more ritals but it would probably take up the whole page. :)
ReplyDeleteI have many family traditions. This being because i have a very large, and close family. My favorite one is in the summer, my whole side of my moms family goes on vacation to Ocean City Maryland. I have been going evey year since i was five. My cousins and i are all really close and we love to do fun things together. The usual day consists of waking up early and renting bikes to ride on the boardwalk, laying on the beach til about 3, then getting ready, going out to eat for dinner, mini golfing, then walking the boardwalk. We do thise because we are all really close and love spending time with each other. We always have a good time and we are always laughing. My family may be a little crazy sometimes but i wouldnt have it any other way.
ReplyDeleteMy family every year we go some place different for vacation. We always go somewhere out of the country. That's our family ritual.
ReplyDeleteEvery Easter my family and I go to my grandma's to eat. My grandma gives all of us this eatable-cardboard religious paper, which we break up into pieces. We then pass a piece of it to each of my family member. Each of us eat the others' pieces and then pray. Next, we each take a colored egg and take turns cracking them, whoever wins gets the lottery ticket for that nights' game.
ReplyDeleteEvery morning i wake up and the first thing i do is look at my phone. Then i get up and take a shower. I never eat breakfast. Then I catch the bus and go to school.
ReplyDeletemy family has a tradition on christmas. every christmas after opening our gifts and eating dinner, to end the night we play like twelve rounds of bingo. i dont really know why we play, we just always have since i can remember so we just continue to do it every year.
ReplyDeleteMy family has a nearly a hundred traditions. Every Sunday my family and my uncle and cousins go over to my grandma's house for dinner. Every summer my family and my uncle's family go to Lynn Run up in Ligonier and play in the creek and have a pic nic. Every major holiday like Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, my family and all of my aunts and uncles and cousins go over to my grandma's house for a big dinner. One last major tradition is every New Year's Eve me and my brother and sister stay overnight at my grandma's house and stay up to watch the ball drop.
ReplyDeleteMy family has a few traditions that we do each year for holidays and special occasions. One tradition that we have is going to my Baba's (grandma's) house in Michigan for vacation each summer. We stay with her for a week each year. We go fishing, swimming, and ride bikes every time we go. Another tradition that I have is watching The Wizard of Oz with my mom, Aunt, and Baba every Thanksgiving. We all watch The Wizard of Oz on the same day, even though we're in three different states. We watch it together, so we can feel connected, even though we're far apart. Finally, my family goes to my pap's house on Christmas every year. We eat dinner together and then play games. One game that we always play is to guess how many jellybeans are in the jar. I pretty much always win. Then we go back to my house and open presents. When we unwrap the gifts, we throw the paper in the middle of the floor and put catnip in it for my cats to roll around in. We have a blast! My family is very close and we have many traditions that we've developed over the years.
ReplyDeleteevery christmas eve i go to my grandparent's house, the henderson's, which is my mom's side. we go up there and eat a deep fried duck, it's yummy!!!! then we open presents, watch movies and lots of more fun stuff. on christmas day i go to my dad's side, which are the shipley's, we always have a big christmas party with all the shipley's and it's lots of fun.we play jenga and scrabble and tell crazy jokes and stories.....oh and we watch jeff dunham!! yupp gotta watch him he's great haha!!!! the same goes for thanksgiving. we have these traditions because its nice to see every body that you havent seen since the last holiday you were together and you get to spend time with them
ReplyDeleteMy ritual before i go to bed is eating so im not hungry. I watch sportscenter or watch a basketball game to get ready for bed and to calm down.
ReplyDeleteThe traditions that my family have are only the major holidays,thanksgiving,Christmas,Easter,etc... we do them just because we always have
ReplyDeleteMy family has a few traditions but our major one is our summer trip to Michigan for a family reunion on the weekend of the Fourth of July. I haven't taken part in this tradition as I have only been part of the family for a month now. My foster mom has told me that this is a very big part of her summer and she wants me to become a part of it and as part of the family it is something that I look forward to doing this summer.
ReplyDeleteMy family every year is wake up on christmas and open up are christmas gifts. then when we are done with at we go out and spend time with are family or go out with are friends.
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas eve im at my moms and we have a party and then on Christmas i get up get my gifts and then go to my dads and get my gifts there.
ReplyDeleteWell one of our traditions is that we go to my great grandmas house and eat supper. We have been doing this for about 14 years and we plan on doing it for many more. But we wake up we open gifts then we high tail it over to grandmas to eat till we can't stand.
ReplyDeletemy familys tradition is to go to either my aunts or grandmas for christmas eve, it usually alternates every year, we go up there and then open the presents and cards that they got us, and that is the biggest family tradition
ReplyDeleteMy family tradion is that every new years my mom makes pork and saurkrout. I dont know why but i guess its a new years food.
ReplyDeleteOn Christmas Eve I go over my grandma's house for fish and spaghetti. We do this because it is an Italian ritual and my grandma came from Italy at a very young age. After dinner we open presents and play bingo. Bingo isn't the most exciting game but it's nice to be around a lot of family and have fun.
ReplyDeleteMy family tradition is just my family eating together on holidays and going hunting.
ReplyDeletemy tradition is that at the dinner table on thanksgiving, christmas, or any other holiday dinners, after the prayer, we say one thing we are thankful for, no matter what it is.
ReplyDeletemy family dosent't have many traditions but one of them is that the whole family including cousins, aunts and uncles, and grandparents gather at my one aunts house and we have thacksgiving. we play poll, poker, listen to music, and we eat alot of food. it's special becouse some of my relatives i don't get to see much.
ReplyDeleteme and my father go out and cut down trees for my tradition. i have a lot of fun doing this because it get to become HUGE!!!!!!!! and also get to hangout with my father
ReplyDeleteme and my family go out to eat on our family members birthday's and on christmas and easter we always eat the same food and when i wake up in the morning i check my cell phone than i go get a shower than i get dressed and than eat breakfast and than get my hoodie and shoes and bookbag and purse than i leave for the bus and than im at school
ReplyDeletemy family tradition is that every chistmas i go to both my grandmas house. we eat food and then me and my mom go to my dads house. i spend 2 or 3 days with him and come home. so that way i can see my family becasue my whole family is usually at one of my two grandmas house adn i also get to see my dad who i dont get to see that much.
ReplyDeleteevery year me and my pap go hunting togother. we do this because i have been going out in the woods hunting with my pap ever since i was 5. i will do this every year with my pap to keep the traditon going.
ReplyDeleteAnother tradition that i have is that all the guys in my family get there quads or dirtbikes out to ride on the first nice day in the spring. we have been doing this since i started riding when i was 4. this is a fun traditon because i love riding my dirtbike and quad and every guy in my family rides so it is really fun going out for a traditional ride.
I used to have a christmas and thanksgiving tradition with my dad, little sister, brother, dad, aunt, and gram and eat at my gram's house but i was sent away this end of year so i didn't get to celebrate with them.
ReplyDeletejuly or august my family goes on vacation together. my mother loves traveling and camping, so we all drive in a line to a camp ground and we take up about 4 camp ground lots. 4 families on one small area.
ReplyDeleteon thanksgiving we go to my grandparents and we always have turkey and potatoes and my grandma makes homemade noodles and that is our tratinionb
ReplyDeleteEvery year me and my family always go out during the night and just spend money piled upon money on each other,like clothes,sneakers,food,etc.Anything someone would want they'd get it.Then the next day we'll go to Miami for the rest of the summer.On christmas since we don't celebrate it everyone will stay in the house and just enjoy the quiality time with each other.
ReplyDeleteme and my family go out to eat on our family members birthday's and on christmas and easter we always eat the same food and when i wake up in the morning i check my cell phone than i go get a shower than i get dressed and than eat breakfast and than get my hoodie and shoes and bookbag and purse than i leave for the bus and than im at school
ReplyDeleteEvery Dec 22nd my family on my mothers side has a xmas party and we all buy gifts for eachother. Before the day of the part we draw names out of a xmas hat and who evers name we draw we have to buy a gift for them. This tradition has been in my family for about 33 years go far.
ReplyDeletei love to go out to each with my father when he comes home to from up north we always go out to his favorite place witch is wendys every friday
ReplyDeleteOne of my family traditions is to go fishing up at my camp in potter county with my dad and uncle and brother. we go every year the first weekend of trout season. i have been going for i think 10 years now. My dad and uncle have been doing it since they were my age with there pap.
ReplyDeleteOne of my family traditions is to North Carolina to go to the beach. I love going to the beach,and my grandma used to live there and she is moving back there and we normally go to vist her.
ReplyDeleteThe artical that i chose to use is called "Zero Talorance". It is about Anti Semitic in another part of the world. when the jurnalist whent to this place there was every thing from throwing words back and fourth to violince. At one point the violance got so bad that the government had to call in the army.
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