Chuck Palahniuk

Edgar Allan Poe’s techniques have indeed proven their efficiency. Not only do they allow the reader to accept the uncanny side of the story, but they also inspire future writers to write similar works based on Poe’s texts. To name a modern classic book that resembles Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, one must not look farther than Stephen King’s 1977 horror novel: The Shining. The critically acclaimed book, which instantaneously lifted Stephen King’s rank among horror authors worldwide,…

INTRODUCTION Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 cult novel Fight Club and it’s subsequent film adaptation, directed by David Fincher, are a prime example of internalism’s importance in adaptation, to the extent that the protagonist is known widely as the Narrator in the absence of any other name being given. The narration in the film is massively important as the majority of the plot, as we find out near the end, has actually taken place inside the Narrator’s own head, and so the view the audience gets…

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I 've ever known.”- Chuck Palahniuk. Chuck Palahniuk states that our own identities are not only formed by ourselves, but also by the culture around us. Gene Luen Yang 's Boxers & Saints follows the lives of Bao and Four during the Boxer uprising in China, as they struggle to find their identities. The uprising forces Bao and Four to chose whom they identify with, their fellow countrymen or the foreigners and christians. Through…

Imagine… you open your eyes to a field, full of students. This was it, it was finally your graduation day. After this day you would start living your life as a college student, and at the moment it seems surreal. It is almost your turn to step on the stage to get your diploma handed to you. As you walk up, your favorite literature teacher looks at you and gives you two thumbs up, and you know she will remember you. But who else will remember you? And what will your legacy be? A legacy is how…

able to be stable minded and strong no matter what happens is the key to overcoming the hurt. “It 's so hard to forget pain, but it 's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” Chuck Palahniuk,…

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense… There is no free will. They are no variables,” by Chuck Palahniuk. Old Major’s dream had no positive effect: life ended up in the same class-based society because, like it or not, history just repeats itself. No matter how many times people want world peace nothing is going to change. Corruption and competition…

It is the year 2021. You hear your name echo through the auditorium as you are called to the front of the stage. All eyes are on you as you walk towards the principal who is holding the piece of paper for which you have worked so hard; all of the hours of work, studying, and preparing. Accepting your diploma, you smile and think about your life ahead. You have just graduated high school- now off to college. How will you be remembered as a student? What will you have done? A legacy is how you are…

Herr. We humans are the smartest creatures living in this planet. When we put our minds to it we can literally create or end lives. Whenever we go against the laws of nature, and choose to defy death, we end up creating something incredible. Chuck Palahniuk once said, “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Most of us will read this and reflect upon what we have done in life that people are going to remember forever for. Victor…

All in all, insomnia is devastating to have to go through. One may think that there is only sleep disorders,but there is actually sleep deprivations as well. “ When you have insomnia, you are never really asleep, and you are never really awake.”, Chuck…

dull the edges, a consolation prize in place of a real, fulfilling life." This is why we need to understand the hollow Chronos existence of Saturn worship. What the media and adds tell you to do. The materialistic pursuit for joy you go on. A Chuck Palahniuk novel. I know, I know. I like the Flight Club book, there is a lot of important messages. If you are not familiar with the Fight Club film. It is about the Psychological break down. And his rejection of social capitalistic norms. (Oh.…