Fun Run 10/29/18

For starters, in class Mr. Rivers gave a reminder on how the second take of the intertextuality summer reading essay is due tonight at midnight, and you might want to go over it one more time before submitting. Then going into the lesson plan for the day, when went into the specifics on clarity in our essays, and in writing in general. One piece of film we had to analysis was another episode from The Office, the episode being "Fun Run." In it, Michael Scott is driving to work but manages to hit one of his co-workers with his car. He later explains to the employees how Meredith can't come in today because she was hit by a car, Michael's car to be exact. Michael then tries to be unclear, and non specific to avoid embarrassment and guilt, but he is then forced to tell the truth when Dwight recommends to look at the cameras to see how it happened. While watching this clip we had to analysis just how clear, and specific Michael was being and if he was ever lying. We then went back to learning about allusions, by re-watching a clip from Wall-E that alludes to 2001: A Space Odyssey. The purpose in analyzing that scene from The Office is to understand that the more clarity you have the more information you have. In that scene Michael withholds the fact that he hit Meredith with his car, and because the rest of The Office didn't know who hit her and didn't know the rest of the details, they kept asking Michael for more details so they can piece together the full story. As for allusions, when writing an allusion, putting the right audience in mind builds credibility. In the scene from Wall-E most allusions were meant for adults, which makes the adults watching have a better experience, because they know what the movie is referencing.