I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it. David Sedaris
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The book, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger tells the story of a young boy named Holden Caulfield, who is in his early teens and who is attending prep school. As Holden is attending one of these schools, he encounters a group of students known as the "Tomkeys," or "Tommyknockers." Holden's confusion over the relationship between the "Tomkeys" and Halloween is best explained in this quote:

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