6th

The Emperors of Chocolate
By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. Hershey's wife was like his best friend and she died with a none cure disease. He has let his chocolate business lower down.

2. In honor of his wife that died he is going to enlarge the school of the orphanage and give them a better life.

3. Hershey's factory are making less money now and its going out of business if he doesn't do nothing.

4. Some of Hershey's very own people are against him. People who didn't like the CIO were thrown out.

5. All the violence in the community got Hershey sad and crying. They forgot about all the things he did for them.

Questions:

1. What kind of disease did she have?

2. How come he likes wasting his money in helping out?

3. Why are the people going against his factory?

4. What was Hershey's real attempts in making chocolate?

Vocabulary:

1. Benevolent: performing good or charitable acts and not seeking to make a profit pg. 132

2. Bestow: to present something, especially something valuable or undeserved, to somebody pg. 138

3. Curative: able to restore health pg. 145

Literary Terms:

1. " Out of respect, they called him Mr. Hershey but they treated him like a parent." Simile pg. 133

2. "... after the stock market crash on October 1929 sent the economy into a tailspin." Metaphor pg. 138

Overview Sentence:

1. Hershey's factory is making less money now, needs to think of ways to progress.