Seongyool, Myung Thu 11:00-13:00, Holiday
Have you ever wanted to throw foods to other people? In Spain, there's a festival you need to do that. 'La Tomatina', also known as tomato festival, is one of the most famous and passionate festival despite its short history. This takes place on the last Wednesday of August, in a small country town, Buñol.
The funnest and the biggest vegetable war, La Tomatina is only about 60-year old party. Some say it came from the situation when the farmers throw all of their tomatoes as they got angry for a nosedive of tomato price in 1944, and others say that the tomato fight amongst young people during a holiday parade in 1950 was the origin, but nothing is clear, though.
The festivities start with an event. Around 10am, a pole with a ham on top is shown while people dance and get showered by water trucks. As soon as someone drops the ham, the starting signal is given with a hose shooting water in the air. Then the tomato trucks enter and offer people the weapons over 120 tons for the fight. After an hour, water shot in the air ends this messy red party. Fire trucks come and hose down the streets for participants to use it to remove the tomatoes. Then the fire trucks clean up the city, which makes in cleaner because of the tomatoes' acidity.
You may think this is just a chaotic mess. However, it also has its own rules to protect people and give full pleasures to them. Tomatoes should be squashed before thrown, no ripping T-shirts off, and making path for tomato trucks are the rules that the red fighters should follow.
Unlike many other festivals, it has no political, traditional, or religious meaning. Still, this young fiesta drags tens of thousands of people all over the world. Everybody can be children for 60 minutes, just for fun, without thinking anything. I suppose that's why it's famous regardless of its age.
Siho Yang
ReplyDeleteI found this essay quite interesting and well-informing. It provides us a lot of information about 'what it is', the origin of the festival, the process of the festival, and some rules to follow. All those include details and they are appropriate and sufficient. The conclusion part was also good in that it includes the writer's evaluation. However, one thing to point out is, according to 'p47', it is somewhat hard to say that all body paragraphs present a kind of 'process'. Only the paragraph about the event itself can be called 'process', I think. Paragraphs about the origin and the rules are dealing with 'information' not 'process'. (But I am not sure whether it's important for all body paragraphs to include a process..) Anyway, I like this essay. :D
I like your essay because it is well written in the aspects of being ‘informative’. It was easy to catch general idea and details about the festival in your writing. Even though you didn’t divide your paragraphs strictly by each process of the festival, I believe it is better to write in your way because it describes entire parts of the festival including the origin and characteristics of the festival. By doing so, your writing looks more organized and well-balanced, which achieved improvement in completeness.
ReplyDeleteby Cho, Hyun
DeleteHave you ever wanted to play with foods? In Spain, there's a festival you can do that. 'La Tomatina', also known as tomato festival, is one of the most famous and passionate festival despite its short history. This takes place on the last Wednesday of August, in a small country town, Buñol.
ReplyDeleteThe funnest and the biggest vegetable war, La Tomatina is only about 60-year old party. Some say it came from the situation when the farmers throw all of their tomatoes as they got angry for a nosedive of tomato price in 1944, and others say that the tomato fight amongst young people during a holiday parade in 1950 was the origin, but nothing is clear, though.
The festivities start with an event. Around 10am, a pole with a ham on top is shown while people dance and get showered by water trucks. As soon as someone gets the ham down, the starting signal is given with a hose shooting water in the air. Then the tomato trucks enter and offer people the weapons over 120 tons for the fight. After an hour, water shot in the air ends this messy red party. Fire trucks come and hose down the streets for participants to use it to remove the tomatoes. Then the fire trucks clean up the city, which makes it cleaner because of the tomatoes' acidity.
You may think this is just a chaotic mess. However, it also has its own rules to protect people and give full pleasures to them. Tomatoes should be squashed before thrown, no ripping T-shirts off, and making path for tomato trucks are the rules that the red fighters should follow.
Unlike many other festivals, it has no political, traditional, or religious meaning. But still, this young fiesta pulls tens of thousands of people all over the world. Everybody can become a child for 60 minutes, just for fun, without thinking of anything. I suppose that's why it's famous regardless of its age.
Have you ever wanted to play with foods? In Spain, there's a festival you can do that. 'La Tomatina', also known as tomato festival, is one of the most famous and passionate festival despite its short history. This takes place on the last Wednesday of August, in a small country town, Buñol.
ReplyDeleteThe most fun and the biggest vegetable war, La Tomatina is only about 60-year old party. Some say it came from the situation when the farmers throw all of their tomatoes as they got angry for a nosedive of tomato price in 1944, and others say that the tomato fight amongst young people during a holiday parade in 1950 was the origin, but nothing is clear, though.
The festivities start with an event. Around 10am, a pole with a ham on top is shown while people dance and get showered by water trucks. As soon as someone gets the ham down, the starting signal is given with a hose shooting water in the air. Then the tomato trucks enter and offer people the weapons over 120 tons for the fight. After an hour, water shot in the air ends this messy red party. Fire trucks come and hose down the streets for participants to use it to remove the tomatoes. Then the fire trucks clean up the city, which makes it cleaner because of the tomatoes' acidity.
You may think this is just a chaotic mess. However, it also has its own rules to protect people and give full pleasures to them. Tomatoes should be squashed before thrown, no ripping T-shirts off, and making path for tomato trucks are the rules that the red fighters should follow.
Unlike many other festivals, it has no political, traditional, or religious meaning. But still, this young fiesta pulls tens of thousands of people all over the world. Everybody can become a child for 60 minutes, just for fun, without thinking of anything. I suppose that's why it's famous regardless of its age.