Why We Fight

David Fincher’s cult classic film Fight Club (1999) is considered one of the best movies of all time by both critics and casual movie fans. The film follows an unnamed narrator suffering from insomnia. The narrator eventually becomes addicted to attending support groups for diseases he does not have as because they helps him sleep. Eventually however, the support groups are no longer help him sleep and it is at this point that the narrator encounters the charismatic Tyler Durden. Tyler and the…

One day in April, Tyler was a part of a pirate crew and they were headed into the deep waters of the East Pacific Ocean. Armed with baskets of food and gunpowder, they were on a voyage to trade with others in Thailand. Tyler was a Jamaican crew member for the “Red Bearded Pirate Crew”. He met his crew in Scotland when he was picking up fur pallets. Tyler was around 6’2,” with midnight black dreadlocks that went to the middle of his back that were tied together with a pliable rubber band. He…

Fight Club the film compared Fight Club the book The 1996 book Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk is a classic satrical novel that contains interesting social commentary on connsumierism and masculinity in the United States, particularly for Generation X and Generation Y. The 1999 film adaption of Fight Club directed by is considered to be one of the best book-to-film adaptations ever, however it manages to change quite a lot from the original novel without damaging the themes, culutral…

Fight Club is about how consumerism and the effects of consumerism cause people to live repressed lives where we work long hours for money to buy things that we think will make us happy. Tyler Durden is the narrator’s fantasy about what an unrepressed man who fights this system might be like, so in some ways Tyler represents a potential answer to the problem of consumerism. He is the person the narrator wishes he was. Tyler is, however, dangerous and even self-destructive, so Fight Club warns us…

Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, Fight Club, was published in 1996; however, the depiction of masculinity in the narrative is still relevant to today’s society. According to Steven Hammer, “masculinity is typically measured by the size of one’s paycheck, wealth, power and status” (Hammer 1). Even if one is blessed with all these qualities that are allegedly required to be the ultimate male, all it takes is someone to threaten a man’s masculinity for him to act in an irrational manner to prove himself.…

Our society today has come to believe that we can not survive without materials and possessions. Motivation for life has become to possess expensive items, things of no real value, but for some reason, they complete human beings. This materialistic society is demonstrated in the novel, Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk is showing how society has become obsessed with material things. Tyler Durden, one of the main characters in the novel, believes that we are a society that has been built from…

child to have. She is a junkie, criminal, and we later find out a kidnapper. (Throughout the story we see her kidnapping victor from his foster families, but the big surprise doesn’t come until the end when we find out that Victor isn’t even her child. She stole him out of a stroller in Waterloo, Iowa when he was a baby. ) Needless to say, Ida’s character was perfectly portrayed as imagined from the book in the movie. Paige Marshall, the “doctor” who we find out was really a patient the whole…

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…