{"id":131,"date":"2014-09-07T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/?p=131"},"modified":"2014-09-07T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T20:10:14","slug":"reading-question-1-for-tues-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/2014\/09\/07\/reading-question-1-for-tues-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Question #1 For Tues. 9\/9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wilson spends the entirety of chapter 11 discussing and reviewing Celine Dion’s album\u00a0Let’s Talk About Love,\u00a0<\/em>going through, in detail, almost every song that was on the album. That in itself distinguishes this chapter from the rest and appears as a review because in all the other chapters, Wilson never really breaks down the album and discusses his feelings and thoughts towards each song, but rather criticizes the album as a whole. Not only that, but in his review, Wilson finally goes in depth on why Celine’s music can’t make him cry and touch him like it does to her millions of fans: why he “never took the cure.”<\/p>\n

However, what I think really<\/em> distinguishes this chapter from the rest\u00a0of the book is the fact that Wilson explains how his personality and the life he lives leads to his un-attraction towards Celine and the album, but also how the album helped him come to a realization about life itself.<\/p>\n

Prior to the actual review of the album and its songs, Wilson talks about how his “comedy-drama” life is centered on \u00a0groups of friends and his occupation, which entails him spending a lot of time “figuring out how to assimilate to new social groups.” In doing this, Wilson says that his “life is guided by a vocation, a secret mission..” which tends to distant Wilson from the “center ring of adult life,” which he feels has “arrested [his] development.” His feelings of being stuck in “teendom” doesn’t correlate to Celine’s story, in which she never attended high school and experienced life as an adolescent, therefore leading him to be “dry-eyed” when it comes to Celine and her music. Celine’s attempt at trying to grow up to quickly- for example, in her composing of music with fifty and sixty year olds at the age of thirty-is of great distaste to Wilson and he has no admiration for it whatsoever. He just couldn’t appeal to her.<\/p>\n

Wilson highlights that message early, then writes the rest of the chapter as a review of the album, discussing almost every song and his distastes about it. Then, at the end of the review, what comes as a surprise to the reader and truly makes this chapter unique, Wilson admits that while his eyes “didn’t well over, neither were they completely dry.” He explains how the album taught him a life lesson, that being there is no “advantage in holding yourself above things” (as he’s done in the entire book, holding himself above Celine and her works). This is probably one of the only positive things he has to say about Celine and her music, and Wilson is able to express the fact that\u00a0Let’s Talk About Love<\/em> did leave a somewhat hopeful and positive mark on him. That is something that doesn’t occur in the book to often, and really differentiates this chapter from the book as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wilson spends the entirety of chapter 11 discussing and reviewing Celine Dion’s album\u00a0Let’s Talk About Love,\u00a0going through, in detail, almost every song that was on the album. That in itself distinguishes this chapter from the rest and appears as a review because in all the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}