5 Comments

• I found out Hershey was not just a chocolate brand, but a town and a man who created the chocolate and town.
• People recognized MS Hershey not as a man who created something, but as a idealist and philosopher.
• MS Hershey's father outshine the bride(Hershey's mother) more during the wedding, usually it would be vice versa.
• The town Hershey was described as a perfect utopia you would read in a fantasy book
• You needed two strengths as a candy maker; one physical strength and two good sense of timing.

4 Questions

• Would the town Hershey be the same now?
• Why did Henry Hershey married so fast when he does not want to settle down?
• Had the environment MS Hershey grew up in influenced him to be what he wanted?
• Did Joseph Royer see potential in MS Hershey to not fire him?

3 Vocabularies

• asphalt(page 1)- noun.a mixture of such substances with gravel, crushed rock, or the like, used for paving.
• benevolent(page 5)-adj.characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings.
• ferocious(page 24)-adj. extreme or intense.

2 Literally Devices

• "...a freight train will snake its way along the track that slice through the valley"(page1).- personification, the train is described with human characteristics.
  
• "the oak and the vine"(page 10).- an idiom used to compare a marriage such that a women is the vine who holds onto her husband, the oak, that is stable.

Summary

MS Hershey was describe as a great man who created a Utopian base on what he believed in and that Utopian that cause people to live happily in the town. Hershey's history is explained and his parents and sister's death seems to impacted him on what he believed in.

posted by Angellica M. @ 3:03 PM