Often times advertisers use things that children can relate to to get their attention and make them want things. Like often times food companies partner with production companies so they can put cartoon characters on their products. Or they make it seem like you are "cool" if you buy or have what they are advertising or you aren't "cool" if you don't.
Hope this helps a little.
D.could imprison him but could never confine his soul.
He says in the excerpt, "As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body". He shows that the government was not able to change his mind or his opinion about paying taxes, so they had to punish his body by imprisoning him. The excerpt goes on to compare it to children. When they cannot hurt a person emotionally, they go after the person's dog instead. This is also a transcendentalist view because it separates the mind from the body as two different entities.
