S1Ep1: Pilot
[Rory sitting on a bench reading. Dean come out, sees her and goes and sits with her]
DEAN: Is there anything in there about me?
RORY: I don’t know. You name wouldn’t be Lithium would it?
Rory is reading The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil. It was first published in The American poet, novelist, and short story writer Sylvia Plath () suffered from clinical depression which at times was severe.
Plath was hospitalised in a psychiatric ward for several months while in college, receiving electroconvulsive therapy, and required intermittant psychiatric support for the rest of her life. She died a suicide at the age of
Rory may have been drawn to Sylvia Plath&#;s life story because she was highly driven academically, and a star student in both high school and college. She easily won prizes for poetry, short story-writing, and journalism, and one of her early writing achievements was being chosen as part of a group of college-aged guest editors for fashion magazine Mademoiselle.
On a darker note, among the several factors that pushed Plath into her first suicide attempt was a rejection from a Harvard summer school writing class
Thomas C. Mountain is a long time revolutionary political activist and anti-racist educator. His background includes participation and leadership roles in the environment, land and housing struggles, labor, cultural work and education. He is founding co-chair of the Hawaii Black History Committee (), founding VP of the Hawaii Alliance for Peace and Justice in the Middle East (), co-editor and publisher of the Ambedkar Journal on India’s Dalits or Black Untouchables () and one of the founders of the US Eritrean Peoples Friendship Association. He is the only independent western journalist in the Horn of Africa, living and reporting from Eritrea since Thomas C. Mountain is the most widely distributed independent journalist in Africa, living and reporting from Eritrea since In he was a member of the 1st US Peace Delegation to Libya to commemorate the first anniversary of the US bombing of Libya. He can be reached at thomas cmountain atyahoo_dot_com
Literary Culture and Achievement Subjectivity from Gilmore Girls to A Year in the Life
Perhaps no image is more representative of the young Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) — protagonist, along with her mother Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham), of the TV series Gilmore Girls (), created by Amy Sherman-Palladino — than her reading a book, so completely absorbed in a literary classic that she's blissfully unaware of everything else. This is how her passion for literature is first introduced in the show's pilot, when the new heart-throb in town and soon Rory's first love interest, Dean (Jared Padalecki), admits he has fallen for her when watching her reading Moby Dick with "unbelievable concentration," while a drama, complete with blood gushing and an ambulance, unfolds around her. "I thought," Dean confesses, "I have never seen anyone read so intensely before in my entire life. I have to meet that girl."1
Rory is frequently hailed as one of the most well-read characters in TV and a role-model for bookworms everywhere.2 She even spawned the "Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge," accompanied by book clubs both online and offline, which challenges people to read
The Transformation Of Alexis Bledel From Gilmore Girls To Now
ByCatriona Mactaggart
If you're a fan of the teen comedy-drama, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," or TV dramas such as "Mad Men" and "The Handmaid's Tale," then you'll know the name Alexis Bledel. But to TV lovers around the world, Bledel is best known by another name: Rory Gilmore. She played the studious coffee-lover in "Gilmore Girls" from to However, fans may not know that "Gilmore Girls" was her first ever acting role. Being a fresh-faced college grad made her stand out to the show's casting director, Jill Anthony. "Luckily, we had videotaped one of her early auditions. We popped that in, and they saw her on camera and she just jumped off the screen, you know. Those blue eyes," Anthony told Vanity Fair.
The early years of her career were defined by "Gilmore Girls," but as she has progressed, Bledel has turned her hand to a variety of projects, from dark dramas to TV movies, all while trying to live out of the public eye. Keep reading for a closer look at the transformation of Alexis Bledel from her early life — including the reason she decided to pursue acting which led he
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