Notes

Light = understanding/ seeing.

Darkness = confusion/uncertainty/ignorant.

Anton: - stays in darkness --> ignorant

            - end of story full understanding of the event

Commentary Outline

Paragraph 1: context.

Paragraph 2: symbol of light --> becomes a motif --> repetition --> personification, repetition in service of the symbol.

Paragraph 3: contrast between dark and light.

Paragraph 4: syntax.

Paragraph 5:  diction.

Motifs, Symbols, Characters

Motifs:                         Symbols:                                       

- lizards.                       - name of the houses.     

- Truus.                        - chess.

- Stones.                      - home at last.

- Light.                        - care free.

- candels.                     - hideaway.

- flashlight.                  - side-a-way.

Themes: Fate, avoidance.

Characters: Anton, Truss, Fake Ploeg Jr.

Winter Of Hunger

Main events:

        

-       Family having an average night, boys doing homework.

-       Six shots rang out in the night, and Peter runs outside to find Fake Pleog dead.

-       Korteweg & Karin moves the body in front of carefree.

-       Peter tries to move the body and gets caught bye the police so grabs Ploeg’s gun and runs.

-       Germans come and force them out of their house, parents are taken away while Anton is shoved into a truck.

-       House is burnt down.

-       Anton is dropped off at police station and put in the room/cell with the woman (Truus)

-       They exchange stories and fell asleep against her.

-       Anton is woken up and taken on motorcycle to Harlem.

-       Schmaltz (goose fat) sandwich given to him by elderly sergeant

-       Taken to his aunt & uncle in Amsterdam with convoy, which is attacked by an air raid.

-       Goes home with Uncle in Amsterdam.

Information and Sourcing

3 kinds of information:
 

- common knowledge.

- specific information: detail, examples, new evidence --> footnote or source in text.

- direct quote (no more than two line)? or paraphrase ? ( is it succinct? if yes, quote;if no paragraph) --> source it.

The Persuaders

In the beginning of the 20 th century, advertising was going through a major crisis. The chapter 5 of the persuaders focuses on the major changes the advertising industry had to make to be able to reach the consumer more efficiently. The advertising industries go through constant changes in order to attempt to reach society. The advertisers and marketing agencies have to change their advertising in regular basis because once the consumer understands and figures out the strategies and the concept being used on him, he won’t fall for them anymore. By creating advertisements, the advertisers penetrate the brains of consumers and always make sure that he is frustrated, the desire of consumers is no longer his, advertisers impose theirs. Through out the history, since its creation,  advertising has been evolving as technology evolved. During the early years of advertising, trademark was created to enable the consumer to distinguish between brands. As the result of the overuse of trademark by the brands, its effect on the audience became less and less effective.  Due to that, image based advertising was created. Image based advertising revolutionized the advertising industry. Through the image ad the compagny is able to communicate the brand value, the public targeted and create an emotional rection on the consumer. Emotion is a powerful weapon used by advertisers because it prevents from thinking rationnaly and logically which means that his decisions will be emotionally based. Nowadays, due to the ammount of media we see in our everyday life, the image is losing its power and effect on the consummer. To change that advertisers and marketing compagnies transformed advertising in to a social science. They conduct demographic study’s and create a consumer profile” with an avatar to represent it. Through that process, advertisers are more likely an emotion reaction from the consumer because they know their traget better. Advertising has now become linked to psychology, the consumers’ preferences and his behvior are being analysed, he is not considered as human anymore but as an experiment subject. Advertisers and mareting also use other tricks to create interest from the consumer, like rethorical question, inverse psychology, sarcasm to make him feel high cool enough for their product.

In conclusion, consumers are being victims of the advertisers and the market companies’ genius because they are using all the things that define a person against him.

Chapter 3 & 4

Chapter 3:
Page 43: "I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there."
Page 47: "This fella's a regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too - didn't cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?"
Page 49: " It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life....It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself."

 Page 52: "She had a fight with a man who says he's her husband...Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands."
Page 57:  "I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others - poor young clerk who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner - young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."
 Page 59: " It takes two to make an accident."
  
Chapter 4:
 Page 61: "He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil."
 Page 68: "Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there."
Page 71: "You're very polite, but I belong to another generation....You sit here and discuss your sports and your young ladies....As for me, I am fifty years old, and I won't impose myself on you any longer."
Page 77: " A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: 'There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.'"