Why We Fight

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, the reader is taken through the slow mental breakdown of the main character of the novel. This nameless narrator goes through several mental changes that can be reflected in the environment that he surrounds himself in. Also, Marla Singer is portrayed as the only tangible thing that connects him to the real world and acts as a mirror reflecting his lies. As the novel progresses, the narrator starts to sleep earlier and earlier thus giving the opposite personality of…

They see that they are unsatisfied when trying to achieve the male American dream and have no gratification in their lives. Fight Club members see that their job does not define them but often in the male American dream, a man’s job is his value. Through the constant pressure to conform to society’s standards, the male loses his true identity and becomes a slave to working for the male American dream, giving him no sense of self, worth or pride therefore losing masculinity and identity by only…

His speech to the fight club shows the new America that follows the baby boomers. “ God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression…

The Royal Tenunbaum is about a dysfunctional family that revolves around Royal (Gene Hackman), who failed as a husband for Etheline (Anjelica Huston), and failed as a father to his three children: Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson), and his step-daughter Margot (Gweneth Paltrow). Royal is trying to reconnect with his family after learning from his informant and servant to the family, Pagoda (Kumar Pallana), that Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), Etheline’s accountant, proposed to his estranged…

looking better than ever? Eli Pariser explains why this is happening in The Filter Bubble. Ultimately, the new web is changing how we think and what we read. In this essay, I will review the book and discuss the arguments inside. Right now, we think that the information that we are looking up is general information that is available to everyone else. In reality, when we search for something, it creates this personalized information that the internet thinks we would be most likely to look…

Anh Bui September 6, 2016 ENG 160 Writing Project 1 The Conjuring and the Return of True Horror In a world where people enjoy fear as a form of entertainment, the new film series The Conjuring by James Wan, released in July 2013, marks the glorious return of horror. Bringing back the classic ghost story with a touch of perfection, James Wan tells us the terrifying real story about the Perrons family, Ed and Lorraine Warran in a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse during the 70s. With the special…

The Hills Have Eyes was Wes Craven's second directorial film after The Last House on the Left (I'm not counting his stint as Abe Snake directing The Fireworks Woman). Much like The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes has a gritty, low budget, violent look, having been shot on 16mm film. Given the budget of approximately $230,000, Wes Craven was able to craft a violent, sometimes humorous horror film that to this day is still quite popular among the horror crowd. The film has gone on to…

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…

Leon Lamphear 10/4/2015 Film Studies: 1800, Prager Section B In the movie Fight Club (1999), directed by David Fincher, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt put on amazing roles in a movie about disrupting the norm of higher society. Edward Norton who from here on will be referred to as the ‘Narrator’, is a white collar employee who has not slept in months due to his severe insomnia. Brad Pitt plays the role of Tyler Durden who is a private salesman and manufacturer of soap. After meeting on a plane…

For the most part of the movie, the dialogue in Jim Uhls’ screenplay stays genuine to Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, yet still contained minor differences. In the beginning of the novel when the Narrator first met up with Tyler Durden, “Tyler and I, we met and drank a lot of beer, and Tyler said , yes I could move in with him”(46). The Narrator directly asked Tyler he could stay and live with him due to his apartment being destroyed in an explosion. Although Jack in the film does not directly ask…