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What's So Funny
In the novel Fight Club, the author, Chuck Palahniuk, brings the reader
and doused in the ideas of tolerance and suppression of one's anger, the
Generation X man of the 90s had lost his primal connection to healthy male
aggression. Palahniuk shows both sides of the spectrum and their effects:
feelings, and attachment with one's self through expressing one's true
feelings through violence and chaos. Palahniuk satirizes the idea that the
begins by not being able to sleep. He is obsessed with material objects, and
feels distant from himself. He feels like he doesn't know who he is, and that
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his possessions define him. After taking his doctor's advice, he starts going
to support groups, most importantly, a support group for men with testicular
cancer, to see people who are in real pain. He cries with a man, Bob, who
developed breasts from steroid overuse, and had to get his testicles
than masculine characteristics. The narrator hugs him and cries, seeking the
animal, which is a penguin. A penguin is a bird that looks like a bird, and
characteristic. The narrator is a man that looks like a man, and technically, is
group; his sanctuary. She is the opposite of the narrator; she embodies many
that the narrator doesn't have testicular cancer. She knows he goes for the
support, and she doesn't accept him like the others do. An aggressive
yelling at her until she leaves. He is not a masculine character who does not
insomnia continues.
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masculine man. He "saves" the narrator from his old, emasculated life. After
the narrator's home gets destroyed, Tyler takes him in, and pushes him into
their masculinity through violence, and it acts a way to let him vent his
the idea that hiding your true feelings is feminine, and not expressing them
Generation X man has obtained, and made them less like actual men.
In the lye scene, Tyler forces the narrator into a situation of intense
pain and suffering. The narrator doesn't want to get a chemical burn, but
Tyler corresponds pain with genuine experiences. He feels that the only way
to have a true experience anymore is through violence and pain. Before the
objects, feeling detached from his own life. After Tyler made him suffer and
feel pain, he could become attached to his own life, and feel alive. Tyler
wants him to express all of his aggression, relinquish all control of his
emotions by inflicting pain on someone else to truly feel like a living man. He
also wants him to control all of his emotions, and accept the suffering when
connects man with their primal instincts of "kill or be killed." The narrator is
seeking acceptance in support groups, until he starts Fight Club. Only once
Generation X, acting violently is frowned upon, and men have to find more
1960s, it was fairly common for men to act violently. Tyler wants to bring the
acceptable. Once Fight Club gains popularity, Project Mayhem gets formed.
Tyler's goal for Project Mayhem is, essentially, to cause chaos. Chaos makes
people rely on their basic instincts; it brings people back to their primal
roots. Tyler wants to get rid of modern society with Project Mayhem in order
to cause chaos, and make people act like raw human beings, as opposed to
society so that he can bring people back to their primal state of living, and
believe that this was a good idea. Fight Club and Project Mayhem are
Palahniuk did not write Fight Club to be taken seriously. He did not
have any intention of convincing teenagers to make clubs in which they beat
each other senseless. He wanted to give examples of what life is like for
people who are consumed by our materialistic society, and people who have
what life is like for people who try to break down our society because they
are consumed by its flaws, and they cannot stand it. They let out their