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Essay / Theme of Being Zach Morris - 957
During one season of Saved by the Bell, two characters, Jessie and Kelly, are replaced for 12 consecutive episodes by a new girl Tori (Klosterman, 145). New girl Tori possesses traits that Jessie and Kelly exhibit and is immediately accepted and integrated into Kelly and Jessie's group of friends (Klosterman, 145). While the aforementioned girls are gone and Tori is there, none of the girls' friends mention them at all, Klosterman concludes that this is the most realistic part of the series (Klosterman, 145). This conclusion came after Klosterman conducted psychoanalysis and evaluated his own experience of the “Tori Paradox” (Klosterman, 146). When he first considers the idea of the “Tori Paradox,” Klosterman describes it as “silly, bordering on insulting, […and] unreal” (Klosterman, 146). After thinking back on his experiences in high school and college, he realizes that he and some of his friends have gone missing for long periods of time, just like Kelly and Jessie (Klosterman, 146). Additionally, as in Saved by the Bell, whenever he or any of his friends were not there, they were not mentioned (Klosterman, 146). His initial rejection of authenticity, he concludes, is the result of his "memory always [creating] the illusion that [they] were constantly together, just like those kids in Saved by the Bell" (Klosterman, 146). . However, in reality there were "long periods when someone who [...] seemed among [his] closest companions simply was not there" (Klosterman, 146). In the essay “Being Zach Morris,” Chuck Klosterman explains his well-supported theory that “important things are inevitably clichés” (Klosterman, 136). He uses many approaches to help with his explanation, one of them being psychoanalysis. Through this approach, Klosterman is able to help his readers fully understand his point of view.