Chuck Palahniuk

Author Chuck Palahniuk has said, “The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than the people born here.” While this statement may bare truth for some, many other immigrants face difficulties when identifying his or her culture. Within the novel, The Book of Unknown Americans, by author Cristina Henriquez, several of the story’s narrators prove to be evident of this clash of cultures and loss of identity. Specifically, Mayor Toro, a teenager raised in America, with immigrant parents from…

Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Invisible Monsters, once said, “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” This statement, though downplaying individuality, speaks of an overarching truth. Anyone and everything that a person comes into contact with leaves some kind of impact. For me, without the combined influences of my family history, american culture, environmental surroundings, and charter school education, I would not be a health conscience, science…

The principle subjects of the story are dejection, realism, and opportunity from society. Tyler was made due to the absence of association the storyteller had with the individuals around him. The storyteller was desolate and went to such a large number of care groups on account of it. He was not dismisses at the care groups on the grounds that the individuals thought he was wiped out simply as were they. Realism is a reoccurring subject as the storyteller specifies how he has functioned his…

The Expendables movies are an action and thriller film, written by David Callaham and Sylvester Stallone, and directed by Stallone, Stallone, himself also starred in the lead role. These movies, have a similar plot, in Expendables one, was about suicide mission and the second edition, was about murder, which is similar to the first edition. By comparing these two posters, first and second Expendables edition, we all can see the differences on how they promote and sell these movies. I choose this…

The film A Dios Momo takes place in Uruguay and features a young boy named Obdulio. Obdulio works selling newspapers on the street for an unfair boss and aspires to be a famous soccer player. He is illiterate and refuses to go to school. Then, after a bad day at work, a mysterious stranger leads him to a night watchman at a newspaper office that decides to tutor him. At first Obdulio is reluctant, but he soon learns to read and write as well as helping the watchman deliver lyrics for a theatre…

In the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller, Walter Mitty (played by Ben Stiller) lives an unadventurous lifestyle as a negative assists manager at Life Magazine. After the company gets bought out, Walter’s new boss Ted Hendricks (played by Adam Scott) says there will be cut backs on employees. Most at Life start to worry including Cheryl Melhoff, Walter’s love interest/ co-worker (played by Kristen Wiig). When Walter losses the last cover’s negative, number…

Freedom or Dictatorship Who has the authority to say what is and is not moral? Should people have the freedom to do whatever they please, or should they be restricted in the name of safety? In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, the culturally accepted idea of morality in 1960’s America is constantly questioned. Kesey writes the novel through the perspective of Chief Bromden, a man in the ward who acts deaf and dumb but can still speak and hear. In this institution, Nurse Ratched has…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, is a brilliantly written novel that shows his view of the world. Kesey uses a quiet and overlooked upon character named Chief Bromden, to show his point of view of the ward. The ward is ran by a Matriarchy. A Matriarchy is something that is ruled or ran by women. As you know, the book was published in the 60’s, and men and women had to strongly different views of political power. Men thought that women should not be in charge, and women thought the…

Fight Club is a postmodernist novel, which shows the reader how a group of people created a club about dealing with officials and American structure, officials, and androgen pumped men. Fight Club is basically an escape of reality in which whoever joins it cannot tell anyone outside of it. Tyler Durden feels trapped in his schizophrenic mind, along with a woman named Marla Singer, who fakes her diseases to join Fight Club. There is another person who is in the club named Bob Paulson. Bob comes…

"You are not your bank account, you are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your Grande Latte. You are not the car you drive. You are not your …. khakis." (Fincher 1999) David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club is a movie discussing issues in modern masculinity, social stratification and relations of power. By presenting us with a character completely opposite in the extremes of his alter egos. From here he shows us the issues…