Chuck Palahniuk

Not Your Typical Story As humans, we are often very stubborn to accept and understand the lives and thoughts of other people. We cannot truly comprehend the lives of other people until we are able to fully experience what they feel. It is for this reason that Ken Kesey’s novel One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is so enticing. The story reveals the life of Randle McMurphy, a deeply flawed man who faked mental illness in order to avoid laboring in a work camp for his crimes. As a result, he is…

Before he ever wrote Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk’s father was murdered, he despised being a journalist, he worked with NPR, and for a while, he worked with people who were terminally ill. (Chalmers) Published in 1996, Fight Club was made into a movie only three years later. The book was based heavily on his own life experiences, such as his membership in the Cacophony Society, which inspired “Project Mayhem”. His work with the terminally ill, especially the death of a patient to whom he had…

The novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest tells the story of a mental institution and the people and events inside of it. More specifically, it tells the story of a man and his journey to sanity, as well as of the people who help him progress. It is only when a new patient, McMurphy, arrives in the ward that the main character, Chief Bromden, truly begins to progress toward sanity. In the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, Chief Bromden goes through several stages while…

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 began to make more sense on subsequent movies…

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…

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…