Chuck Hogan

I have been a fan of Fight Club since the first time I saw it. I feel my understanding of the movie was largely impacted by the fact that I was not born and raised in America, and English is my second language. The first time I watched the movie, I did not even catch most of the social commentary Palahniuk had added in his work. Things like consumerism made sense, but I was ignorant of them, either because of simply being naïve or not quite understanding most of the references. Either way, the…

Movie review Theme The Internship is about two watch salesmen, Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson). The two are cut off from their jobs after their industry realizes that technology (the digital world) is causing a decline in their business therefore leading to their employers going out of business. Billy then takes the initiative to enroll both him and Nick to an internship at Google, their entrance into this internship programme is a battle. However, they qualify and…

Fight Club is an exhilarating thriller directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Gone Girl). This movie was considered one of the most controversial of the year due to its “Fight the System” attitude. The narrator is a nameless, white-collared employee of a law firm who is plagued by insomnia and depression. He medicates his depression through consumerism, a frequent and steady acquisition of “things”. “I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person”, he asks…

Dr Heidegger invited four of his elderly friends over including Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and Widow Wycherley to his rather eerie study. All of them have used up their fortunes, and now they are unhappy. The three men used to fight over Widow Wycherly when they were younger, it was said to be that Widow was very beautiful when younger. When they guests arrives at Dr. Heidegger's house, they go to his study. His creepy study contains, among other things, a bust of…

The movie Fight Club takes place in Wilmington, Delaware and starts off with a narrator, whose name is unknown, that works for an auto insurance company. He suffers from insomnia and his doctor refuses to prescribe him medication for it. Instead he suggests that he attends a support group for testicular cancer victims. Once the narrator attends the support group, he realized that it gives him some sort of emotional release that relieves his insomnia. He quickly becomes addicted to attending…

POWER AND CONTROL IN 'ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST' One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1975 film based on the story written by Ken Kesey under the same name. The story revolves around Randle McMurphy as he experiences the life of an inmate at a mental institution, trying to escape the hard labour he had been sentenced with. Along the way he befriends the inmates, the giant Indian Chief who is believed to be deaf and dumb, the shy and stuttering Billy Bibbit, as well as many others all…

modern day society’s views are how we should behave. Chuck took this issue head on, creating a character who was well behaved on the surface, but haunted by something dark deep down inside of him. This in turn made him want to fight, or “destroy something beautiful” not for any particular reason, but to just feel the pain from it or to feel anything at all. Justin Garrison writes in his article God’s Middle Children’ Metaphysical Rebellion in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, Throughout their…

Fight Club is about how an average man is unfulfilled with his life. He’s an insomniac that goes to these support groups that help people go through diseases in hopes to get a nights sleep. He discovers that his spirit animal is a penguin; penguins are flightless birds that always wear a suit and are weak. He creates this masculine alpha male he wants to become in his mind. The theme is masculinity. Tyler Durden is what the narrator wants to be; confident, charismatic, powerful, sexually…

Kyle Kufrin Mr. Nicola Honors CP10 September 27, 2015 Relating My Piece of Literature to Foster Written about the daily lives of those inside a 1960s psychiatric ward, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest paints a picture in the reader’s head of the ongoing escape patients pursue from their reality inside their ward. Author Ken Kesey uses symbolism to portray psychiatric patient Randle McMurphy’s escape from misery. Religious imagery, coupled…

In the movie Fight Club, Edward Norton stars as an unnamed man, who is both the narrator and the protagonist. This man is discontent with his white-collar job, depressed, and plagued with insomnia. His only solace is to attend support groups for various afflictions and illnesses, none of which he possesses. In one of his various support groups, he meets a woman named Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter, who is also a support group imposter or “tourist.” Her presence robs him of his…