“Is Paul an irritating and arrogant teenager who died for nothing or is he just a boy who can’t fit into society?”
First of all, the story was like to A Rose For Emily in terms of deep symybolizm the writer used however this story is more “readable” and not boring unlike “Emily” where we see the actually lots of things,lots of events but actually nothing. The writers intention does not look like writing sth,rather playing with readers making them confused. In this story we face a well planned structure and puzzles to solve ,like Pauls father was a gay or not. So then such unclear points could lead to different aspects about “Paul’s Case” , whether he was a really “idiot” guy or somebody rejected by society because of his indecent manners. Actually because in the story the narrator tells from the perspective of Paul, generally, then it is difficult to reach an argumen actually objective argument. We are just under the manipulation of Paul against the “others”; teachers, his neighbors and significantly his father. I think it is really natural that teachers behave differently and rejectively to odd students .A student who does not listen to lesson or smiling meaninglessly to his teachers , of course, could not be appreciated by teachers and most importantly, Paul does not give chance to his environment to what he really wants or what really he is. He is really introverted guy and why somebody will be wrong when he said Paul is schizophrenic? He is just thinking and assuming people know what he thinks and and demanding tolerance. Lying in many situations, he wanna be away from his truths. Actually, in briefly ,pauls is really complicated person with the successful writing of writer; however ı think paul is not a guy who is not understood by society; may be in some extent it can be said he does not obey norms of society and so being alienated , but what he should have done was expressing what he thinks clearly and not behaving to his environment as if everything surrounding is stupid and insensitive.

"Has the video changed anything in the way you think about yourself and the choices you make? In terms of Adorno and Fiske’s theories has anything changed?"

This is really a complex situation and to reach an exact argument or a thesis is really hard. We wanna criticize a vague structure built between producers and the consumers by just relying on a few resources. Of course we are not able to have a deep insight into this topic , so then making an argument seems neverthless useful.

ı think the matter of triangle of media , consumers and producers is somewhat appearing in our lifes. We all are affected this construction consciously or not. Scholars who analyse this matter are not actually being able to create a satisying argument, we see huge differences between their words as in Adorno and Fiske example. Although both side has its own truths, ı see benefit in making a "middle way". People are all the source of money in the eyes of producers and this means they have to consider what people think and want, the example of Sprite is really fitting here. Producers can not regard the consumers as ships who are being navigated by a herdsman because what consumers will buy or watch or listen etc is what producers will put in their pocket. However, here is the trick ı think,, this may lead people to assume they are really powerful and unique factor in this relation. especially by the globalization and capitalization world, the "money" or , in better words, pursuit of money may overwhelm some people ,which ı mean actually the producers, to try anyway to get money from "innocent" people. They may pretend being concerned about the needs of consumer or benefit of consumers however ı dont think that is the case. As we learn from the video, producers may implement crazy ways like cool hunting to have a better understanding of people or as sprite did , they may make themselves very "humane" giving the message "we consider you". Of course these all are the tricks of producers to satisfy the power(!) of people and in this interval making as much profit as they can.

May be in the article ı could not express my ideas clearly, ı just wanna warn people about the power of media and followingly producers. They are like wolwes:)