Rarely does one novel connect to multiple generations at once. For a long time this country has moved from being a producing country to consuming country. Every generation has had their fair share of material possession and obsessions. Sometime these objects can cause people to lose sight in what is most important in their lives. It’s getting to the point where we care more about what kind of car somebody drive or the label on their clothes than what kind of human they are.
Fight Club reveals how we have become a society of consumers and how it can cause people to lose their sanity. How we are being brainwashed into thinking we need more things. We have become believers that we cannot survive without out material belongings. Chuck Palahniuk …show more content…
When the narrator’s house blew up, he wasn’t worried about where he was going to stay; his main focus was all of his belongings inside. When the narrator describes his belongings to the readers he makes sure that he is very precise on what they look like, because he wants the readers to know what kind of life he was living. “A big bomb had blasted my clever Njurunda coffee tables in the shape of a lime green yin and an orange yang the fit together to make a circle. Well they were splinters now. My Haparanda sofa group with the orange slip covers design by Erika Pekkari, it was trash now (Palahniuk, 43).” Society has tricked him into believing that he needed all of those high end things to be complete.The narrator admits that he is a slave to his belongings. He no longer owned them, they owned him. “ And I wasn’t the only slave to my nesting instinct. (Palahniuk, 43) “You tell yourself …show more content…
When the two are making soap Tyler explains to the narrator how he can be free. “If you don’t lose your nerve before you hit rock bottom you’ll never really succeed. Only after a disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after losing everything that you’re free to do anything (Palahniuk, 70).” Tyler explains that if the narrator want to be free from all this tension in his life he needs to learn to let it all go. All those things we own or don’t own don’t define us. The jobs we have don’t define us. People who are caught up in these things are trapped in a world that is hard to
Fight Club reveals how we have become a society of consumers and how it can cause people to lose their sanity. How we are being brainwashed into thinking we need more things. We have become believers that we cannot survive without out material belongings. Chuck Palahniuk …show more content…
When the narrator’s house blew up, he wasn’t worried about where he was going to stay; his main focus was all of his belongings inside. When the narrator describes his belongings to the readers he makes sure that he is very precise on what they look like, because he wants the readers to know what kind of life he was living. “A big bomb had blasted my clever Njurunda coffee tables in the shape of a lime green yin and an orange yang the fit together to make a circle. Well they were splinters now. My Haparanda sofa group with the orange slip covers design by Erika Pekkari, it was trash now (Palahniuk, 43).” Society has tricked him into believing that he needed all of those high end things to be complete.The narrator admits that he is a slave to his belongings. He no longer owned them, they owned him. “ And I wasn’t the only slave to my nesting instinct. (Palahniuk, 43) “You tell yourself …show more content…
When the two are making soap Tyler explains to the narrator how he can be free. “If you don’t lose your nerve before you hit rock bottom you’ll never really succeed. Only after a disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after losing everything that you’re free to do anything (Palahniuk, 70).” Tyler explains that if the narrator want to be free from all this tension in his life he needs to learn to let it all go. All those things we own or don’t own don’t define us. The jobs we have don’t define us. People who are caught up in these things are trapped in a world that is hard to