Wednesday, December 17, 2008

10th

The Emperors of Chocolate
By: Joel Glenn Brenner
Comments:
1. Everyone in Mars company are like robots, they all wear the same thing and are very quiet.
2. Mars produced the delicious snicker bar.
3. Snicker bars were recognized different in other countries.
4. Milton Hershey is willing to give everything he has to an orphanage boy when he dies.
5. The chocolate company also made Starburst.
Questions:
1. What was the Soviet Union?
2. Why would they produce a nasty chocolate?
3. What other products do they produce?
4. What happened to Forrest throughout the rest of his life?
Vocabulary:
1. Resonance: the effect of an event or work of art beyond its immediate or surface meaning pg. 287
2. Sentiment: a thought or idea based on a feeling or emotion pg. 306
3. Burgeoning: growing or expanding rapidly pg. 317
Literary Terms:
1. " Hershey has always been seen as backward." Simile pg. 296
2. ".. hugs promised to be a nightmare." Metaphor pg. 310
Overview Sentence:
1. Mars is really doing well with his company but Hershey passed his to someone else retiring.