In Britain, Guy Fawkes night is celebrated on November 5th. People make a life-size puppet of Guy Fawkes (a conspirator who tried to assassinate the monarch by blowing up the Houses of Parliement) with old clothes, straw, newspapers and papier mache. In the week or so before Bonfire Night children take their Guys on the corner of the street and beg passers by for “A Penny for the Guy”. The kids use the money to buy fireworks. On the night of the fifth, the Guy is placed on the top of the bonfire, which is then set alight and fireworks fill the sky. The Bonfire is usually kept burning for many hours and it is great fun to gather round, roast potatoes and eat ginger bread while watching the Guy burn.
To remember this event there is a famous poem:
REMEMBER, REMEMBER
Remember, remember
The Fifth of November
Is gunpowder treason
And plot.
I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Knock at the door,
Ring the bell.
Have you got a penny for
Singing so well?
If you haven’t got a penny
A ha’penny will do.
If you haven’t got a ha’penny
Then God bless you !!!
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