11/4-Amanda

Today in class we recapped the definition of allusion. An allusion alludes/refers to a text, film, short story, music, etc. it usually refers back to something historical. We then shifted to dominant audience vs. subsidiary audience.

The dominant audience is who the director/ author directs the attention to. The subsidiary audience is the sub audience. For example, in the movie Wall-E children are the dominant audience with parents being the subsidiary audience. 

Sole allusions for Wall-E would be the allusion to "Hello Dolly!" This reference shows the romance in Wall-E. 

We then switched gears to ready player one and how Wade refers to War Games within the first 2 chapters. After discussing allusions in ready player one we broke off into our groups and started to prepare for our second podcast on Monday for level 2 of Ready Player One. 

My group with Bridget, Jack, and Drew, we started to discuss sources that can allude to Ready Player 1. We started to talk about how Wade alludes to the movie Back to the Future because of the Delorean car that he drives in the OASIS. Alluding to the Delorean car shows that Wade is into the 80s and the time period is in the 80s.  

Wade alludes to the song "A million Miles Away" which was written in 1983 and he knows exactly who wrote it and when which also goes to show how much Wade is obsessed with the 80s. That was the last thought that we talked about before the bell rang.