Trix and NLMG

By:

Connecting NLMG to Trix

You been Trix'd

By: Will

One of my favorite meals is breakfast, and I particularly enjoy cereal. Cereal brands are often marketed through the means of entertaining animated characters in commercials. These adverts usually contain a protagonist and a distinct villain. The villain usually wishes to indulge in the coveted cereal but is then stopped by the protagonists. For example, within the Trix cereal franchise, the villain is a rabbit. The rabbit always attempts to obtain the cereal but then is inevitably stopped by a group of children who chant, "Trix are for kids". This pattern follows through all of the different iterations of the commercial. The rabbit despite his freewill to create different plans to obtain the cereal, his fate will always be to fail in his plans and be foiled by the children.


In this advert, the rabbit is waiting outside, painting an image of the Trix cereal, he then is lured by the scent of the voluptuous cereal into the children's home where he is then told once again he can't have any because "trix are for kids".

This time, the rabbit is attempting to disguise himself as a magician, but they children figure out his plan and then chant the classic phrase, "trix are for kids".

In this last advertisement, the rabbit is a magician once again and then proceeds to create new flavors of Trix, but then when he attempts to eat the cereal the children combat him with their iconic shout, "TRIX ARE FOR KIDS SILLY RABBIT".

 In Never Let Me Go, the Hailsham students are cloned from the "riff-raf" of society, and inherit their fate and personality. The novel is told through the eyes of Kathy H., who recounts her different experiences as a Hailsham students and her reactions to them. From this style of story-telling, Kathy is given a consciousness, which leads the reader to believe she has some form of freewill. Although, as the novel goes on, the reader begins to develop the idea that Kathy may not be completely in control of herself. In many situations, Kathy instinctively chooses not to rebel or face her own mortality. This augmented freewill acts similar to the plot-line of the cereal adverts; there are variations in the commercials, but there is a static plot-line. No matter what Kathy does, she is unable to combat her physiological barrier and change her ultimate fate.

Comments

  1. AnonymousNovember 28, 2017 at 9:03 AM

    This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousNovember 29, 2017 at 10:30 PM

    Nice job comparing the basic plot of Trix adverts to the lives of Hailsham students, and nice job with the colorful dots to appear when moving the mouse, it reminds me of Trix cereal. I would imagine that finding a comparison between the adverts of a cereal variety which is targeting consumers who are young children, and a book about a person's experience being part of a system where clones of people are harvested for organs, would be difficult, so good job.

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousNovember 30, 2017 at 10:40 AM

    I think this a great connection because even though both the rabbit and the students at Hailsham have free will in some sort of way, they are essentially deprived of what they want at the end; for the rabbit, it is the Trix cereal and for the students at Hailsham it is obviously living longer without giving away organs. I also find it an interesting comparison because even though the rabbit does lose the Trix after every commercial, it's only cereal and does not really affect his life (even though his life is only portrayed in a commercial). For a commercial, I understand it's just for advertising, but it just shows how this free will concept is portrayed for kids: a rabbit can do whatever he wants, but when he wants the Trix, he can't have any. For us KO students or any other teen/adult who read Never Let Me Go, we see how the students have free will for most everything they do except how/when they are going to die as well.

    ReplyDelete
  4. AnonymousDecember 1, 2017 at 10:13 PM

    I absolutely support this idea, and i also feel that the Trix rabbit is interchangable with the NLMG protagonists. I really liked how u compared the inevitable fats of both the teenagers and the rabbits. I feel it is important to highlight the fact that both of these individuals are being profited off of for the gain of a larger community. With the Trix Rabbit, his trix has been stolen, for the group of children's benefit. Similarly, the protagonists in NLMG have their organs stolen for the benefit of their society

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. AnonymousDecember 2, 2017 at 9:14 PM

      Elan, the Trix rabbit never owned the cereal, the children have it and he attempts to steal it. This is why they portray him as a villain, because he is unrightfully obtaining the Trix. That situation would be more similar to the Lucky Charms universe, where the Leprechaun owns the Lucky Charms and has them inevitably stolen from him.

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Esch and Medea- Jenna

Image
     Throughout Salvage the Bones, Ward makes connections between Esch and Medea both implicitly and explicitly, seeing as Esch and Medea are very similar characters. Esch relates to the mythical woman and wishes to think of herself as a version of Medea. One point in the novel that I think perfectly encompasses this idea is a quote on page 38, "In Mythology , I am still reading about   Medea and the quest for the Golden Fleece. Here is something that I recognize. When Medea falls in love with Jason, it grabs me by the throat. I can see her. Medea sneaks Jason things to help him: ointments to make him invisible, secrets in rocks. She has magic, could bend the natural to the unnatural. But even with all her power, Jason bends her like a young pine in a hard wind; he makes her double in two. I know her." When Esch speaks of Medea and Jason in this quote, she is referring to her love with Manny. Esch sees herself as a powerful girl, but when she's near Manny, she shrink...
Read more

Trump vs Macbeth: What's the Difference?

Image
Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a bloody and multi-faceted tale of corruption and exploitation. Right off the bat, readers are introduced to conflicted and naive Macbeth, a Scottish general who becomes obsessed with the idea of power, after receiving his prophecy at the beginning of the play from a trio of witches that say he will become King of Scotland. Macbeth soon is consumed with the idea  of all of the power he could potentially have, so he and his wife, Lady Macbeth, devise a plan to murder King Duncan and steal the Scottish throne for himself. Once Macbeth kills King Duncan and claims his position, he starts to act out and behave differently than he did before. While reading this play, Macbeth’s “ambition” and “desire for control” reminded me of President Donald Trump. The perception of authority and jurisdiction has gone to both of their heads, which has caused them to  act out in their own distinct ways. Macbeth’s desire for control has lead to murder, war, and over...
Read more

NLMG Connection post- Wes Pierce

Throughout Never Let Me Go, we constantly debated the topic of whether it is okay or not for Kathy and her friends to have their organs harvested in this dystopian setting. Although we know that this is simply a story and nothing more, this is a serious issue in the real world today. In this article by Dale Archer,   he discusses the serious issue of organ harvesting throughout the black market globally. Archer explains the various issues in regards to organ harvesting, such as young children and teenagers suddenly dying because of organ harvesting. He states that many of the "clients" that needs these organs are wealthy, greedy, middle age men in need of an instantaneous transplant. Archer also notes that this organ harvesting process can have ties to human and sex trafficking. The demand for such organs relates to nearly the entire concept of Never Let Me Go mainly because Kathy and her friends don't have a choice that their organs are being taken and they are essential...
Read more