11/3 Joe Schwab

Today in Mr. Rivers class we began the period talking about our real group blogs and that we will be needing to have our pics in in six days. Then we went over the day's objective which was to analyze multi-faceted functions of allusions. Mr. Rivers then brought up a slide with illusion and Allusion on it so the class could discuss the difference. The class said illusion was something seen by the eyes like a trick and Mr. Rivers then brought up a video of Weird Al doing an optical illusion. Then the the class moved on to what an allusion was and we decided it was when in a text or film they refer to another text or film either directly or indirectly. After that the class talked about what allusions do for a literary text or film. Mr. Rivers then brought up a slide saying allusions can reward and define an audience. The class discussed this and we decided it does this by giving the audience satisfaction, by producing humor if it's a direct allusion. This was shown with a clip from Step Brothers when one of the brothers imitated something that happened in Good Will Hunting. Then Mr. Rivers showed us an example of an implicit allusion with a screenshot of Monsters Inc. where one monster was holding characters from other pixar movies. Then Mr. Rivers talked about how an allusion could give honor to another film or it could also be a parody to make fun of the thing it is alluding to. We finished up class talking about the audience and that different audiences could connect to and understand the allusions differently.