Questions on Meaning
What distinction does Winn make between the “harmless pursuit of pleasure” and addiction?Marie Draws a fine distinction between the two, but she concludes in adding on the aspect that the two are not so dissimilar in the fact that something that may be considered harmless pursuit of pleasure like TV watching is an addiction.
In paragraph 2, Winn poses the question that leads to her thesis. What is the answer to this question? Do you find it explicitly stated anywhere?
Her question that leads to her thesis is, "People often refer to being “hooked on TV.” Does this, too, fall into the lighthearted category of cookie eating and other pleasure that people pursue with unusual intensity, or is there a kind television viewing that falls into the more serious category of destructive addiction?" She explicitly states the anwer to this question in saying, "Not unlike drugs or alcohol, the television experiences allow the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state. The worries and anxieties of reality are as effectively differed by becoming absorbed in a television program as by going on a “trip” induced by drugs or alcohol. And just as alcoholics are only inchoately aware of there addiction, feeling that they can control their drinking more than they really do. (“ I can cut it out anytime I want—I just like to have three or four drinks before dinner”), people similarly overestimate their control over television watching."
What does Winn think are the main problems caused by excessive TV viewing? Does Winn think there could be anything good about watching television? How do you know?
Winn says the main problems caused by excessive television viewing tend to be their sheer laziness and anti social personality as they have chosen to watch television rather than maintain a conversation, plant a garden, read a book, crotchet, etc.
Why does Winn take such care to define addiction ? What does this stipulative definition do for this essay?
Winn takes such great care to define 'addiction' as it is what she basis her thesis and the rest of her essay off of.
Winn does not answer her thesis question immediately after she asks it . Why, do you think? What is the effect of this delay?
The effect of this decision is to allow the reader to ponder over his own reason, and then for her to convince the reader otherwise, thus getting her point across efficiently and effectively.
Throughout her essay, Winn puts a number of words and phrases in quotation marks--- for example, “Hooked on TV” (para. 2), “high” (3), “trip” (7), “ought” (9). What does this punctuation contribute to Winn’s essay?
This allows television to be viewed more as a drug, just as other drugs have alternative names to them like scooby snacks, mary joe, etc. So does television watching.
Other methods. Study Winn’s Comparison between drug and alcohol addiction and TV addiction. How are the similar? Are they different in any ways?
Winn answers this in her essay in saying that not unlike drugs or alcohol, the television experiences allow the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state. The worries and anxieties of reality are as effectively differed by becoming absorbed in a television program as by going on a “trip” induced by drugs or alcohol. And just as alcoholics are only inchoately aware of there addiction, feeling that they can control their drinking more than they really do. (“ I can cut it out anytime I want—I just like to have three or four drinks before dinner”), people similarly overestimate their control over television watching. They are only different in the type of addiction they are - one to TV and one to Drugs.
What does Winn think are the main problems caused by excessive TV viewing? Does Winn think there could be anything good about watching television? How do you know?
Winn says the main problems caused by excessive television viewing tend to be their sheer laziness and anti social personality as they have chosen to watch television rather than maintain a conversation, plant a garden, read a book, crotchet, etc.
Questions on Writing Strategy
Winn takes such great care to define 'addiction' as it is what she basis her thesis and the rest of her essay off of.
Winn does not answer her thesis question immediately after she asks it . Why, do you think? What is the effect of this delay?
The effect of this decision is to allow the reader to ponder over his own reason, and then for her to convince the reader otherwise, thus getting her point across efficiently and effectively.
Throughout her essay, Winn puts a number of words and phrases in quotation marks--- for example, “Hooked on TV” (para. 2), “high” (3), “trip” (7), “ought” (9). What does this punctuation contribute to Winn’s essay?
This allows television to be viewed more as a drug, just as other drugs have alternative names to them like scooby snacks, mary joe, etc. So does television watching.
Other methods. Study Winn’s Comparison between drug and alcohol addiction and TV addiction. How are the similar? Are they different in any ways?
Winn answers this in her essay in saying that not unlike drugs or alcohol, the television experiences allow the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state. The worries and anxieties of reality are as effectively differed by becoming absorbed in a television program as by going on a “trip” induced by drugs or alcohol. And just as alcoholics are only inchoately aware of there addiction, feeling that they can control their drinking more than they really do. (“ I can cut it out anytime I want—I just like to have three or four drinks before dinner”), people similarly overestimate their control over television watching. They are only different in the type of addiction they are - one to TV and one to Drugs.
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