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That is a normal night atthe Village Halloween Parade in New York City, held every October 31 in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. No tickets are sold and no famous marshal leads it; instead, the whole thing is powered by people in costume who simply show up. If you can imagine a moving art gallery that anyone is allowed to walk inside, you are picturing this event.  \nThose towering puppets did not appear by accident, because the parade was  \ndreamed up by an artist who worked with them for a living. In the early 1970s, a mask and puppet maker named Ralph Lee led a walk through his own neighborhood, bringing along his children, friends, and the giant figures he built by hand. Back then it was small enough to feel like a block party, winding past front stoops where neighbors watched from their windows. Lee did not want a stage where a crowd sits and watches; he wanted a parade the audience could join, and that idea would shape everything that came after.  \nThat single choice, to let watchers become marchers, is exactly why the parade swelled far beyond one artist's block. Word spread that you needed nothing but a costume to take part, and each year more people poured in until the crowd stretched for blocks. Today the event draws tens of thousands of costumed participants and around a million spectators lining the route. What began as a handful of friends grew into one of the largest Halloween celebrations in the country, all without a single ticket booth.  \nGrowing that large meant the parade needed a new home, so it moved from quiet side streets onto a wide, famous avenue. The march now travels up Sixth Avenue, giving the enormous puppets the room they need to turn corners and rise above the crowd. Some of these figures are operated by several people at once, with puppeteers holding long poles or working rods hidden inside the frame. When a spider the size of a car creeps overhead or a skeleton stretches taller than a streetlight, teams of hands beneath the fabric are making it move.  \nThose hidden puppeteers are only part of a much larger crew that keeps the  \ngiants alive year after year. A nonprofit organization and a small army of volunteers design, build, and repair the puppets, often out of light materials like papier-mâché, cloth, and bamboo so the figures stay easy to carry. Musicians, dancers, and marching bands join the parade too, so the street fills with drumbeats and brass along with the costumes. This mix of homemade art and live music is what makes the event feel less like a show you watch and more like one you help create.  \nThat do-it-yourself spirit has kept the parade going even through hard times, such as the year a hurricane forced it to be postponed. It has survived storms, rising costs, and decades of change because the community keeps rebuilding it, puppet by puppet. The rule that started it all still holds: put on a costume, and you are welcome to march. Not bad for an event that began as one puppet maker taking his kids for a walk down the block.  \nA Parade of Giant Puppets  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) What does the passage identify as the main force that powers the parade?\u003Cbr>A. The tickets sold to fund the whole event\u003Cbr>B. The costumed people who simply show up to march\u003Cbr>C. A television network that broadcasts it live\u003Cbr>D. 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