Chuck Klosterman Book Report

IV IV by Chuck Klosterman is an assortment of eclectic anecdotes and interviews collected throughout his career as a journalist. The book itself revolves mainly around pop culture and perception. At first it may seem that every story in Klosterman’s book is very different in its own right; that is in fact true, but they also have quite a few similarities in regards to their themes. Perception is primarily one of the main themes throughout the book. The stories collected are of vastly different people who do different things, but they all somehow harmoniously intertwine to create one body of text. Klosterman himself is very opinionated and has his own perceptions of the celebrities he’s discussing. In the article Viva Morrissey! he perceives
It’s melodramatic and melancholy, which isn’t really what young Latinos are stereotypically in to. A twenty-three-year-old junior high teacher stated “…We see things within his songs that we can particularly relate to. He sings about loneliness. He sings about solitude. Those are things any minority group can relate to. (51)” She derived this assumption from the fact that Morrissey’s family immigrated to England from Ireland, and were socially segregated; similarly to most Latino immigrants. Then again, if it does have something to do with minority groups that can relate to certain music because of the songs of isolation and such, then why is it just the Latinos? They are of course not the only minority group to ever exist. Morrissey is a strange and eccentric person, people see him as vain and that he wants to alienate his older fans and wants nothing to do with them. He’s aware of his young Latino following and lets them know he appreciates them; he does so by saying that he wishes he was Mexican and other subtle gestures. The world may never know what Morrissey is trying to accomplish; all this makes him even more intriguing to young Latino