Ladder of abstraction 2

We made some more ladders of abstraction today
Engine Food
Car Engine Spicy food
V8 Cajun food
Audi V8 Popeyes
1940 V8 Engine Popeyes spicy chicken wings

It makes sense that being so specific would have its obvious narrative and descriptive functions. I suppose I am used to doing this process in my mind, so having it written down is a bit weird.
We were told a story about a boy losing a dog in hurricane Katrina. The story was especially sad, or so we were told, mainly because the narrator gives the name of the dog. When dog’s have names in stories, we as humans can’t help but feel a bit attached. It reminded me of a lesson in my Hitchcock class. Sir Alfred Hitchcock has a famous scene with a dog. The dog is one of the main reasons the scene is so infamous. In the scene a boy and his dog are delivering a package, however only the audience knows that he is carrying a bomb the whole time. The bomb ends up going off killing the boy and the dog. Hitchcock is quoted on the scene saying that you can’t kill the dog, because the audience gets mad!