2)     The idea of the “foreigner” – what does she say about her early impressions of the foreigner in the books she read? What affect did it have on her? 

       The impression she had from the books she read are that they are white with blue eyes that they drink ginger beer.

 

3)     For Chimimanda what was “no possibility” with regard to how her roommate thought of her as an African person?

 

 

4)     How might literature be considered a cause for the world’s “single story” about Africa? 

Literature can be considered a cause for the world’s single story about Africa because her friend read a book so that’s why it can be considered. The books she read made people or her realise that single story come from the literature.  

 

5)     How does she say we create the single story about a people? 

She says that we create the single story about the people by secondly and by talking about the failure of the African state and the political fear. 

 

 

 

6)     What does power have to do with the single story? 

The power cause people to believe about the story they are told without thinking over it and it is easier for people in power to influence the people easily.

 

 

7)     What is the consequence of the single story? 

The consequence is that people have an idea or thought of the other people or other culture without the true idea of what that the actual realty is. 

 

 

8)     What do you think she means at the end when she says we “regain a kind of paradise”?

I think she meant by that people after listening to a single story think that they have regained a kind of all they want to know and that all.

 

In this assignment we will work together in groups to create written analysis of a unique advertisement provided by your instructor. Much like with the images we practiced on, this assignment will ask you to focus on the specific details of the advertisement in order to analyze its meaning and intent. 

At the end of the assignment, you’ll be answering 3 key questions: 

What is the message this ad is trying to present?

How does it present its message? 

Who is the target audience for the ad? 

You will be using the specific elements of the advertisement to help answer each of the three questions (above). Remember, when we analyze, we do not just identify the different elements of an image or piece of writing; we also work to explain how and why those elements are important; we explain how those elements connect to other pieces of the image/text: we present our conclusions about those elements.

*Additionally, please make a list of any language you had to google to understand, either in the advertisement or these instructions. This is part of the academic process and important in both understanding and increasing your vocabulary. 

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The first section (below) is designed for you to articulate your observations in writing. You are encouraged to list and discuss up to 5 elements (or more!) in the ad that help you to understand its meaning and intent. 

The second section is for you to complete a paragraph that uses your observations to create conclusions about your advertisement. 

The practice of writing out these elements and articulating their importance to the ad will help us begin the process of analyzing text (stories), music (lyrics and video) and film. The ability to analyze media will feature prominently in your media makeover assignment as well as your final group presentation.   

Be sure and ask as many questions as you need of your group members and your instructor. At this point in our class, we aren’t so worried about being right or wrong but rather in starting a process that we will later develop into critical thinking and media analysis skills. 

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Each group has been given an advertisement to work with.

Try to identify at least five important elements from your advertisement. 

For each element, work to explain or interpret its importance to the overall message. 

Make clear how different elements work together to create meaning. 

What conclusions does each element, or combination of elements help us to draw? 

 

Element #2:

Element #3: 

Element #4: 

Element #5: 

 

Now, we are going to attempt to put our analysis together into a single, well-written paragraph. By the end of our paragraph, we should have answered these three questions (either directly or indirectly): What is the message this ad is trying to present? How does it present its message? Who is the target audience for the ad?

The ad presented by ash.org is aiming to show awareness to viewers about the influence adults have on children when we smoke around them. They present this message in two ways, first with the fact that is typed in the middle stating that children who grow up around parents that smoke are three time more likely to get into the habit of smoking, secondly is by placing items that remind us children into the ad. The writing of “just like mommy” which is done with crayon and has a young child's handwriting combined with the cigarettes that are rolled in crayon wrappers strongly reenforce the image of a young child into an adult's mind and therefor makes the fact more meaning. We feel that this ad only targets people who have children and who are around children such as other family members that don’t include parent or siblings, the ad doesn’t aim on trying to change an average smokers habit but only the smokers that have kids.

1)     Make a list of the language that is unfamiliar to you. Ask questions in your small groups or to your instructor. Do not use Google to try and figure the definitions. Conversation is a much greater teacher.

Automaticity, recede, twinge, and joviality.

 

 

2)     The title of the story, what does it refer to? What is “The Veldt?”

I think it refers to the open grass land or the wilderness of the wild.

 

 

3)     The parents buy a technologically advanced house: What is it called (Hint: P.9)? What does the name suggest that the Hadley’s are buying? What “dream” are they being sold when they purchase the house?

The happy life home that’s what the called there home. Its like a their dream home which has everything they dreamed off. They believe this house will bring joy and laughter to the family’s life. Dream of never to work and everything done for you. The dream is if you buy the hose you don’t have to do anything.

 

 

4)     Using your answers for question 3 as the basis for this question, explain the conflict that the Hadley’s are trying to resolve when they purchase the house? What is their reasoning for purchasing it (Find a quote to support your response)? 

 

 

 

5)     Analyze the following two quotes and explain the kind of conflict you perceive. Be detailed and as specific as possible in your response. You might even want to read those particular scenes again to get more *context 

 

“nothing’s too good for our children” (9). 

“we’ve given the children everything they ever wanted. Is this our reward? Secrecy, Disobedience?” (18)

I think for the first quote the conflict is that they have every necessity they wanted but even then, there children are not happy with what they have. And the children feel no good what they offer them.

In the second quote they are like that we bought that room for the children and instead they have rewarded us with disobedience and they have given them everything and in reward they are getting this. 

 

 

 

 

6)     What is Lydia referring to when she tells George that he has been “awfully nervous lately” (13)? Why do you think the adults feel so unsettled? Find a quote to support your answer and then also try to explain it in your own words. 

‘But I thought that’s why we bought the house, so wouldn’t have to do anything’ this quote is trying to explain that they have everything they wanted in their new house but even then, she is not feeling good about having all these things in her life. They are feeling unnecessary and scared that what is happening to them by the house. 

 

 

 

 

7)     Read over page 20, when the dad talks to the son. The part about the painting machine. What is happening to the children? How are they being affected by the house? What does the son want to do with his life? Describe the conflict this scene explores, in your own words.  

The dad wants the son to paint my himself but son does not want to do anything and just want to listen and smell. The children are being affected by the house like they have to tie their own shoe laces, brush their teeth and bath on their own. So, think that father want the children to learn the basic things on there own but the children are so spoiled that they do not want to do anything.

 

 

 

 

8)     When David Maclean, the psychologist comes to look at the nursery, he says: “It certainly doesn’t feel good” (21). Why do you think that when Maclean suggests the parents “have the damn room torn down” (22), this causes such a problem for the children? Why are they so emotionally affected when the parents tell them the nursery is being shut down?  

 

 

 

9)     What are the central conflicts of this story, in your opinion? Based on your responses, what do you think the author Ray Bradbury is trying to show us in this story? 

So, while there is a parent/child conflict, the main conflict is the parents conflict, in which the house      replaces the parents as the ones in charge of both the house and the children. The main conflict may then be referred to as Human vs. Technology, because whoever controls the machine will have power in the house.

1)     Who is the central character/protagonist? Describe them in terms of their character traits: What kind of character are they? How do you know this? What factors lead to you understanding them in this way? 

·      The protagonist is the lonely human. He is a romantic because he is watches romantic movies everyday after work. He is lonely because no one visits him in his life. He is monotonous because he does the same thing day in day out. He is hardworking, he has two jobs and he does them diligently. 

 

2)     What is the central conflict they are involved with and must overcome? When you think about conflict for this question, work beyond the three types of literary conflict we studied; person vs. person, person vs. environment, person vs. self. While these types of conflict can be useful, we are going to work to be more specific to the film/source we are watching. When you discuss the central concept, try to think about our course theory and issues we have been working through to see if they apply to your discussion.

·      Person to self is the conflict and it has something to do with identity. The way he was comfortable alone but not happy and when he got a friend and girlfriend he became noticeably happier. It was as if he depended on them to give him happiness and wasn’t going to try and find happiness on his own. He was also comfortable in the life he had and wasn’t willing to change anything.

 

3)     When the protagonist overcomes their conflict, how do they do it? What did they learn? Do we learn anything by thinking about the way they’ve overcome (resolved) this challenge? Do any of our course theories help to better understand the film and the resolution to the central concept? Explain. 

The protagonist overcame his conflict by ordering a friend. The protagonist learnt from the robot how to overcome his fear of talking and interacting with people. The protagonist learnt how to cohabit and share his space. We’ve learnt how a friend in your life can make a significant amount of change and we need friends to change our routine and help us out of experiences like maybe depression.

 

We also picked up on how his happiness was more with the girl compared to when he was with AI. Which could allude to the fact that our brains value human connection more than technological connection.

Here is a list of course theory you may consider in your discussion: Gender, Race, Hegemony, Orientalism, Othering, Stereotyping, The Single Story, Encoding/Decoding, Cultural Expectation, Representation, Identity, Social Constructivism, Essentialism, Cultural Appropriation, Media Convergence, Participatory Culture. 

1)     Which theory do you think is most important to understand as you work through this short film? Why? Which elements of the film can you connect with this theory? What does this theory allow us to understand about the film? Is it helpful to use more than one theory to better understand? Which ones and why? 

Race; This film shows us that to some extent humans and robots can live together.

Cultural expectation and stereotype; that only when you are in a relationship will you find happiness.

Representation and gender; we realized that the female robot learned things slower than the male robot.

 

The robot can learn all it can from a human but at the end it can never be a real person.

One of us connected to the music in this film which was combined well with the noise of the protagonists everyday life, and paired well with the emotions. There was no audible dialogue but the points were brought out greatly using the camera position and the scene orders.

 

Part 2 – Group Discussion / Compile notes and ideas / Create finished paragraph

As a group, you are going to collectively write and submit a paragraph that puts together your ideas about this film and its connection(s) to our course material. You will be required to discuss each question above, to create a series of discussions and notes with the goal of writing an academic paragraph that uses analysis to uncover some of the bigger ideas the film deals with. 

Each group should assign someone to record discussion responses and to turn those responses into a finished paragraph. This person should not be responsible for doing all of the work for the group. Instead, you should think of them as a “recorder” of group discussion. Each student’s participation in this exercise is mandatory. 

The paragraph should be double spaced, formatted to MLA or APA standards (including name(s), student ID(‘s), title of course and date). You’ll also need a title that lets your audience know the name of the film and the major issue at its heart (for example: Stereotyping and “the other” in Katherina Vermette’s “Annie of Red River”) 

The paragraph should take the following prompts into consideration although I should add these prompts are not mandatory but rather to be used as a rough guideline for your work:

·      What the film is about (context)?

·      Who is involved (character(s))? Character traits.

·      What conflict did they face? How was it overcome?

·      What theory can you identify in the film and how does it help you to better understand the issues at the heart of this film? 

·      What does this mean to you (message), and what factors contributed to that meaning?

 

 

 

The film is about a man who is really lonely and lives a boring cyclic life when one day he sees an ad, advertising an AI companion. He buys it and this AI follows him around everyday copying his every move in order to learn how to be a human being and companion. (Yip YIPYD2002) The AI eventually helps the man gain the courage to speak to his love interest then strikes out on its own because it realizes its lonely. It acquires its own love interest who also happens to be an AI but the AI love interest dies tragically because it didn’t have enough downloaded data to know not to step on the tracks, and the AI also dies when he jumps onto the train track in what looks like shock to inspect the broken parts.

 

The conflict the characters were all facing was loneliness, person to self. They all added someone, a companion or a love interest, to remedy that. (Atukunda MUSJD2002, 2021) This film shows how different life is when you’ve got a friend as a companion compared to a significant other as a companion. (Ali BHAA1D2101, 2021) 

 

It directs us to the social construct that people have created whereby most believe to be genuinely, visibly happy you must have a significant other or a close companion keeping you company. I believe that you should learn to be happy without an addition. (Atukunda MUSJD2002, 2021) We all agreed how at the end when they showed us that the two humans may also be AIs because of the way they have a percentage on their necks too, was a way to point out how we all might not have our own ideas but instead have been brought up observing the social construct around us. 

 

According to Vincent TANHD2101, in order to find a theory for this film we must look at the core issue. The core issue of the film is how to solve loneliness. The theory of the movie is very simple and clear: sociability. The author uses the protagonist's experience to reflect the positive effect of social contact on loneliness. But not everything is panacea. Coming out of loneliness and going back to it can cause serious emotional distress.

 

This film is thought provoking in a way that makes us question who we are as people.