England tradition: The bonfire night

When I was looking for information of some cultural practices and traditions of England, I found a really curious celebration that is not of a victory but a failure. I'm talking about the bonfire night or Guy Fawkes night.

 A group of Catholic men were planning to destroy the London Parliament and kill the Protestant King James on 5th November 1605. Those men were denounce and one of them, Guy Fawkes, was caught with 35 barrels of gunpowder the day before the attack. He was arrested and tortured.

Since then all 5th of November, English people celebrates the plot. The day before it, children used to make figures with old clothes or paper that represented Guy and walked in the streets asking ''a penny for the guy'' to buy fireworks. At the beginning this was a anti-catholic celebration but now it's just a popular celebration and a way to have fun.                                   

Nowadays there are bonfires and fireworks. Now children makes a figure but then they burn them. It’s a tradition that families get together and eat some traditional food of this time: ‘bangers and mash’ and toffee apple.

The face of this man is recognized by the movie ‘’V for Vendetta’’ because the protagonist uses a mask of it. This same mask is the one that Anonymous uses. Also there is a song of John Lennon that in the end has a part of this rhyme of the incident:

Remember, Remember    
The fifth of November,      
The Gunpowder treason and plot;  
I know of no reason  
Why the Gunpowder treason 
Should ever be forgot!