Friday, January 6, 2017
The Pain of Partying and Drinking
During the 2007-2008 NHL season Jordin Tootoo and the country singer Kellie Pickler had an intimate relationship. This relationship went well for a little while and things really seemed to be going his way however the problems that plagued Jordin's life once again came and plagued their relationship. The drinking and the partying plagued how much time Jordin and Kellie actually spent together and the health of their relationship. Furthermore Jordin's desire to fill the hole that Terence left when he committed suicide finished off their relationship. Jordin filled the whole Terence left with other women and this was the final straw in there relationship and it ended a few months after Kellie found out that Jordin was cheating on her. As a result of this and the break up Kellie made a music video and a song about him called "Best Days of your Life" and in the music video a gentleman whom looks strikingly similar to Jordin Tootoo gets hit by a bus. The image of Jordin Tootoo getting hit by a bus can be strongly related back to Jordins life. It is extremely relatable to Jordins life as the bus is the drinking, partying and the pain f Terence's death that kept hitting him and hurting him every single day of his life. While the bus did not kill him as he was a bit tougher than it if he would not have cleaned himself up and he would not have made peace with Terence's suicide than the bus would have kept hitting him everyday and it would have killed him eventually. However Jordin learned to avoid and stop the bus of partying and drinking and random women and eventually stopped the bus that could have killed him and ended his NHL career for good.
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You did a very good job at making the connection from the music video to Jordin's life, and using in what you think the bus represents into the book and how you think that kelly may have pictured the abuse of the drugs and alcohol and represented it into her music video. From what i have read in the blog is that you really know the book and you are able to make good, deep, well reading connections in this book. You also show that you have a well grasped concept of the information of Jordins life provided to you in this book. Well done!
ReplyDeleteThe way you were able to make a connection from a music video and relate them back to Jordins life shows you have a good understanding of whats going on.The one thing that puzzles me is, why do celebrities need to make their life so public? Problems happen between everyone, but i feel that Kellie could have dealt with this better. The fact that Jordin cheated isn't right, but what she did wasn't the right answer.
ReplyDeleteYour connection to the music video and the description of how you believe the connection is ultimately formed, is well, amazingly thought out.Even though personally I do not think that their relationship was that substantial considering the rest of the book, and that Kellie really did not consider Jordin's actual life problems, your connection, again was amazing.
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