"Undeclared" Release Week Post 5!
UNDECLARED
RELEASE WEEK POST 5
MY FAVOURITE SCENE
Early on in the book there’s a scene between Kellan and his course advisor, Bertrand. Each finds the other equally irritating, and in this scene Bertrand is marching Kellan to his first Film Theory course. They stomp along in their mutual bitterness until finally Bertrand asks if Kellan knows why he was signed up for this class. Kellan, who is still firmly in Kellan World with no inkling of the Real World, doesn’t know and doesn’t care.
Bertrand: You know, most people look at a movie—a picture, a song, a book—and see just the surface. They miss the hidden meanings, the subtleties, the nuances. Sometimes they miss the point.
Kellan: Uh-huh.
Bertrand: I mean, sometimes they see all there is to see—sometimes there really is no depth.
Instead of recognizing that he’s the “movie” in this scenario, Kellan gets distracted by a couple of girls jogging past and completely misses the point.
I love this scene because it fully encapsulates Kellan’s character arc, and my favourite part of this story (well, most stories) is the characters’ growth. Over the course of the book Kellan learns to stop thinking about himself and start thinking about…well, himself. But in a different way. To stop considering himself as the shallow campus superstar everyone else sees and look beneath the veneer to the person beneath and determine if there actually is any depth or nuance to his character. (Spoiler: there is!)
Second favourite thing: the first line of the book. Kellan’s known for those infamous lists on the Student Union bathroom wall, and the first line of this book is something Kellan carved on a bathroom wall when he was a kid. I love this symmetry.
And…that wraps up our week of release posts! Thank you for reading along (and reading at all)! Your response and support has been phenomenal and I hope I’ve adequately expressed my appreciation for everything you’ve said & done. Mwah!
RELEASE WEEK POST 5
MY FAVOURITE SCENE
Early on in the book there’s a scene between Kellan and his course advisor, Bertrand. Each finds the other equally irritating, and in this scene Bertrand is marching Kellan to his first Film Theory course. They stomp along in their mutual bitterness until finally Bertrand asks if Kellan knows why he was signed up for this class. Kellan, who is still firmly in Kellan World with no inkling of the Real World, doesn’t know and doesn’t care.
Bertrand: You know, most people look at a movie—a picture, a song, a book—and see just the surface. They miss the hidden meanings, the subtleties, the nuances. Sometimes they miss the point.
Kellan: Uh-huh.
Bertrand: I mean, sometimes they see all there is to see—sometimes there really is no depth.
Instead of recognizing that he’s the “movie” in this scenario, Kellan gets distracted by a couple of girls jogging past and completely misses the point.
I love this scene because it fully encapsulates Kellan’s character arc, and my favourite part of this story (well, most stories) is the characters’ growth. Over the course of the book Kellan learns to stop thinking about himself and start thinking about…well, himself. But in a different way. To stop considering himself as the shallow campus superstar everyone else sees and look beneath the veneer to the person beneath and determine if there actually is any depth or nuance to his character. (Spoiler: there is!)
Second favourite thing: the first line of the book. Kellan’s known for those infamous lists on the Student Union bathroom wall, and the first line of this book is something Kellan carved on a bathroom wall when he was a kid. I love this symmetry.
And…that wraps up our week of release posts! Thank you for reading along (and reading at all)! Your response and support has been phenomenal and I hope I’ve adequately expressed my appreciation for everything you’ve said & done. Mwah!
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