Positive and Negative tones within an allusion

We began class by continuing our discussion about allusions from yesterday. We discussed about how an allusions can determine an audience or reward and audience. An audience can be determined by an allusion by showing who should ¨get¨ the allusion and be able to understand it. An audience can be rewarded by an allusion because they can understand an allusion and find humor in it. A new topic we discussed was how allusions can reinforce themes. The allusion between HAL 9000 and Auto was shown again and the topics about that example are-

Control, villains, advancement of technology, robots, artificial intelligence, and rebellion.

We then posted our themes as groups on the classroom page that we got from the topics we took out of the allusion and discussed whether each theme had a positive, negative, or neutral tone. Each tone was negative in the HAL 9000 vs Auto allusion. We also discussed the reinforcement of theme when positive. The song Hello Dolly was shown on the board and in groups, we figured out the topics of the song and the tone and themes of it. The topics we came up within the song Hello Dolly were Love, reminiscing, companionship, and time. In our groups we determined whether the theme is positive or negative and we came to conclude that this theme is positive.  

At the end of class Mr. Rivers assigned us to find an allusion from Ready Player One. Within this allusion, we had to figure out if it was a positive or negative and who the intended audience is supposed to be. The audience can be figured out by looking into the allusion and seeing which kind of people would understand the allusion. Then in 1-2 sentences, we were to write down who the audience is, how it rewards the audience and how it reinforces the theme. I hope this helps anyone who was absent and needed to add anything to their notes.