The Emperors of Chocolate
By: Joel Glenn Brenner
Comments:
1. Hershey basically made a whole town. Making chocolate is a good business in making money.
2. Hershey knew the milk was spoiling and as a cheap man he used it to make chocolate. The chocolates came out sour.
3. To make a certain chocolate you need to produce it in the right techniques and machines.
4. The town was not a good idea everyone knew each other it was like living in a fish bowl. It's a big place there people could swim in it filled with chocolate.
5. Working to provide chocolate requires a lot of work. But the most hardest work in the factory was in the roasting room it is sweaty, smelly and back breaking.
Questions:
1. Do you really have to have certain machines so the chocolate could come out with a certain flavor?
2. How come you can't make a chocolate with just your hands and the oven?
3. How is it that you have to have the right mix of beans to make chocolate?
4. Why did they use chocolate for tobacco?
Vocabulary:
1. Porticoed: a covered walkway, often leading to the main entrance of a building, that consists of a roof supported by pillars pg. 106
2. Benevolence: performing good or charitable acts and not seeking to make a profit pg. 114
3. Heirs: somebody who holds the right to receive a property, position, or title of somebody else when that person dies pg. 117
Literary Terms:
1. " And we protected that like it was gold." Simile pg. 113
2. " For most of the towns youth, growing up in Hershey was like living one long, sweet fantasy." Simile pg. 116
Overview Sentence:
1. Hershey made a town for people to live there basically free. They're the workers who work in his factory live in a fish bowl.
