reading response

Title: Nolan's Cheddar commercial

Director: John Nolan

Genre: commercial

Book/URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlQS5CCmwI

This week I chose to do my response on a highly rated commercial for Nolan's cheddar. In this commercial (link above) a mouse takes a stroll outside of his hole to grab a bit to eat. He manages to eat some cheese before getting too brave and getting caught by the trap. Because the cheese is so strong he manages enough strength to not only escape but to use it as a bench press. In the end they show the words Nolan's Cheddar seriously strong.

I really was amused in a grim way when the screen suddenly went black and you heard the trap snap shut. I also thought that they did a good job with the vignetting all throughout the clip showing the solitude and making it more tense.

I do wonder why he was suddenly stupid enough to spring the trap. This is because in the beginning he is very careful of how he walks around the trap, and then he just walks on it? If I was the mouse I wouldn't care if I had super mouse abilities, I'd drag the cheese off and eat in my hole.

I really enjoyed the music choice and how it went along with the mood, and it was kinda funny when it suddenly changed from a sad, dreary song to eye of the tiger workout music.

I connected the mouse's personality to that of a cartoon character like Wile E. Coyote, I did this because they try to do something and nothing happens, then something happens when they try to do it to the extreme.  

I recommend  this to anyone who likes morbid humor and a good laugh.

The No Frills Guy (based on rumplestiltskin)

Once upon a time there lived a girl named Lisa. She loved to make bets, and often won them. One day she met a shady figure who's name she did not know. He offered a bet.

He said, "I'll bet you $20,000 that the Vancouver Canucks lose tomorrow night."

Lisa knew she could not repay him but she played along and accepted. 

The next night the Canucks lost in a shootout, Lisa was devestated. A second later she heard a rapping on the door. She opened the door and was startled when the man revealed himself. He was a 3 foot tall cashier from No Frills. Lisa was still scared, a bead of sweat formed on her forehead, her teeth started chattering (probably because he was holding an electric fan up to her face). Lisa told him how she didn't have the money but he didn't care.

"Please Mr. you must be interested in something else, maybe this original Monet?"

"Who dat?"

So she drove nearly everything she owned to his appartment (AKA his mothers house).

"It's still not enough," He exclaimed.

He said it would be okay if she just gave him an ipad. But she refused. So he made another offer.

"What about you guess my MAC address and I'll wave off your debt,  I'll give you 1 chance."

She agreed. When Lisa got home she went on the "No Frills" Guy's Facebook page and found 3 friends, Homer Simpson, Wile E Coyote, and dust. she sent out a message to all of his friends.

It read, "Heyy XD would it be too much to ask for the "No Frills" guy's MAC address? :s"

She got one response from Wile E Coyote.

It read,"It's 214B298..."

She assumed that he'd blown up again. Then she got a message from Homer.

"Can I have bacon? brain, pencil, J.!fhhffrfalfg <3 :) pIzZa" It said.

No reply from "dust" Lisa was freaking out, then she called the Apple store. A friendly Mac Genius talked to her and assisted her in Lisa's quest. He told Lisa all about the new Genius bar, making books and cards using the new ilife, and sold her a new Mac pro with a 12 core and 8GB RAM. So remember buy a mac!!

(P.S. Lisa gave the MAC address to the No Frills guy and lived happily ever after.)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
By: Mark Herman and John Bayne
Genre: Holocaust, war, movie

        In this fictional story they focus on a boy named Bruno. Bruno and his friends love adventure and want to be explorers when they grow up. Bruno's father is a Nazi soldier who gets a promotion and therefor he must move to the country with his family. From Bruno's new room he can see a "farm." After he shows his mother what turns out to be a work camp his window is boarded up and he is ban from leaving the property. Because he is so curious he leaves to find the camp where he befriends a boy named Shmol. Bruno doesn't understand what is happening and thinks that Shmol is having fun. He soon learns different.

     I wonder where "the country" is and if there were any large concentration camps nearby.

     I made a text to world connection, if Bruno is the world and Shmol is the people of the Holocaust. Bruno does not believe Shmol and denies the imprisonment of Jews and Shmol is desperately trying to tell Bruno what's happening, what hitler did but on a smaller scale.

reading response

the book is called night, by Ellie Wiesel, the genre is history/war.

This is the story of a boy named Ellie and his father who go on an adventure through various concentration camps during the holocaust. In this true tale they endure and see unimaginable sights and events. Written by Ellie himself it follows his father and him through the ghettos, several large camps and what they saw. It starts in a small town of Hungary and tells of how they were forced into ghettos and the rising of Hitler. Later it progresses into the camps where they describe down to the smallest detail about how they were treated and what they endured. Eventually they are ready to roll over and die, will they...

I do wonder what it was actually like to live on that amount of food and work that hard all while being beaten everyday, it would be cool if I could go back and feel what they felt, but I would never do it. I also wonder what Ellie did after the war was over and how he survived for all this time.

I liked this book because I felt like I was there with the description he gave and also because I felt like it was one of those books I never wanted to end.

I would recommend this book to either Dylan or Georgios because they both seem to be into the Holocaust and stories from survivors of it.

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