Granddad's Fight

Fight Club: How Consumerism Affects People Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO) says “What consumerism really is, at its worst, is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives” (IMDB). On a daily basis we are exposed to a plethora of advertisements. They are force fed to us in such a way that attempts to hide from them are proven futile. Not only are advertisers trying to sell us their product, but they are also selling us their standards. They tell us how to live our life, what’s…

Analysis Fight Club is told through the first person point of view by the protagonist, an unnamed narrator. The narrator is telling the story as if it were happening in the present, but all of it is the past. Viewing the novel from this point of view is important because the reader can see the internal and external struggles of the narrator, as well as his thoughts and feelings resulting from these struggles through great detail. The narrator also gives his view of the foreshadowed events,…

Time changes so quickly, and so do we. I think we have all noticed that in the short four months we have come to know each other. After receiving my acceptance letter to Grand View, I learned about LOGOs. At first glance, it just seemed like a lot of work and reading. Many upperclassmen warned me of the critical thinking and countless papers that would be formed during this course. However, I was still up for the challenge. When I first walked into our LOGOs classroom back in August, I saw…

Essay In this essay, I will be analysing the three act structure of ‘Almost Famous’, a film by Cameron Crowe (2000). A film about a music driven journalist,who is requested to write an article for ‘Rolling Stone Magazine’ and finds himself and experiences eye opening events, while touring with an almost famous band. Syd Field, author of Screenplay and The Screen Writer's Workbook, has outlined a paradigm that most screenplays follow. A paradigm is a conceptual scheme. Syd Field has divided…

before their first fight, which signifies that fighting, like sex, is an intimate thing. Before this scene takes place, the viewer discovers that the narrator’s apartment blows up, and he remains homeless. Having no one else to call, he calls Tyler, and Tyler takes him to the bar to buy him drinks. The narrator needs a place to stay, and Tyler tells him to “cut the foreplay and just ask” (Fight Club). Later on throughout the scene, the viewer finds out that the narrator must fight Tyler to live…

Fight Club: An Exploration of Identity Our society is full of people who have an inner desire to be perceived differently from how the world perceives them. David Fincher’s Fight Club portrays the struggle of identity and perception through the narrator’s character, who, ironically, is never assigned a name throughout the film. The narrator undergoes a shift from initially having a complete disconnection from the real world to adopting a second identity or alter-ego (“Tyler Durden”) that allows…

Abstract: The play “Red Oleanders” is first written in Bengali language under the title “RaktaKarabhi”. Tagore conveys the message that the Utilitarian approach and vast industrialization throughout the world would resulting in diminishing human compassion and cause Ecological Imbalance.So he used characters as a metaphor of human instincts such as greed, power, envy, love, trust, and sacrifice. The play Red oleanders is a One-act play which follows the Aristotle’s rules. He fallow’s three…

An Idiot Abroad What will happen when a touchy couch potato becomes a reluctant world traveler? An Idiot Abroad can give you the answer. In this British travel comedy series, a man named Karl Pilkington is sent by his friends, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, to travel to several foreign countries around the world. In the episode that is to be discussed here, he was made to visit Thailand and was asked to perform a variety of quirky tasks assigned by his friends. There are certain elements in…

Fight Club is a movie that follows the daily life of the main protagonist. Actor Edward Norton plays the unnamed protagonist who is commonly just known as the “Narrator”. The narrator is plagued by powerful insomnia however he is refused any real medical attention. His doctor instead directs him toward a cancer support group so he can realize just how small his suffering is compared to others. The narrator is embraced within the support group as they believe he also suffers from cancer. This…

Fight Club and Lullaby: Qualitative Differences in the Nature of Transgression" It can be stated that a transgression is born from a person’s past, something that we humans are victims of. The past is unforgivable, inevitable and difficult to get away from and though we are the captains of our own ships, there are certain moments in our lives that we can’t escape. It is when the antecedent events press on our comfort zones that transgressions seem to manifest. This is the case with Chuck…