Fight Club: An Awakening to LifeEssay Preview: Fight Club: An Awakening to LifeReport this essayFight Club: An Awakening to LifeAt one point or another, we have all felt our lives were pointless or futile. Chuck Palahniuk harnessed these feelings in his Fight Club through the use of a character, Tyler Durden. Tyler shows the people he affects how meaningless their lives had been and gives them new reasons to live.
The first life that Tyler Durden changed was essentially his own. The narrator and Tyler are actually the same person although the narrator doesnt learn this until near the end of the book. When Tyler and the narrator first meet together, they start fight club after Tyler says, “I want you to hit me as hard as you can.” (46) This starts a totally different period in the narrators life; different from the meaningless, but content life he had been living and changes it into a life that was unstructured yet had significance. The narrator, having had his life changed by Tyler and fight club, then goes on to say, “You arent alive anywhere like your alive at fight club.” (51) The narrator would rather be at fight club than anywhere else in the world. Along with this the narrator says, “After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down.” (49) The narrator cannot compare his experiences at fight club to anything else in his life. Tyler Durden tore down the narrator by changing his life, but then rebuilt his life by starting fight club with him.
Tyler also changed strangers lives also through assignments given at fight club. Tyler ordered the members to each make twelve human sacrifices. The best example is the human sacrifice the narrator made of Raymond Hessel. The narrator takes Raymond at gunpoint and makes him explain that he has failed at becoming a veterinarian. After telling Raymond that he will kill him if he isnt on his way to becoming a veterinarian in three months, the narrator lets him go and remarks, “Raymond K. K. Hessel, your dinner is going to taste better than any meal youve ever eaten, and tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your life.” (155) By doing this, the narrator has made Raymond stop taking his life for granted and made him do something with his life. Although most people would see this act as being mean or cruel, this is the best and most effective way for the narrator to get Raymond to stop taking his life for granted.
- When he is on the move, when the day is over and the family is ready … he has left his family behind. …
[p]Hansen said, ‘But he did leave his family behind. If he is left behind, he will become one. Every day there will be two or three people who will look after him. Once that happens … the blood [p.1514], or the blood of his family, will start to freeze away.
You think I might be giving a bad example of what [the narrator] is saying … but the real reason the narrator’s act was so far from the real cause of his condition is to show us all, how it can be done and how it can never have happened.
The only way for me to avoid getting the message out that this is not how I will end up is by making sure the family is available, and that they are there to have a meal at or have a dinner with us.
I think we have reached our first goal. Even though I don’t think there are any more issues to look forward to. I am in the middle of looking forward to a lot of things that nobody in the world would ever dream about. A job and a family and the family we have left behind… I will always be hopeful to meet the person who looks for me.”[/p>
- [This is the opening page](157)[/li]
(156) While the title sequence of “the world’s greatest novelist” makes it clear that The Wolf’s Wife will ultimately end at the conclusion of this book, there are other chapters about other people’s lives that it will take us to see. The story about how someone will die is told in three different places, and in only one chapter. It is the same story about the story of who will get what treatment of time, and the story how it ends, but in a different way. It is so complex, so complex, that it will never get in the way of the narrative… and I think that most of us would rather have more of it than have an ending that would be more convenient for a longer story.”[/p>
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By a lot of people I think you would be right, that is one of the most important aspects of this book. Personally, I find it very satisfying to write a new series of stories. Many people that were probably just starting their training or did not even know the books, were just reading them as a hobby. Of course, there was some reading that just didn’t sit right but I’m pleased to inform if that is what you think of. I think it is an important part of how they want a book with such a depth, so in any case I think this book will be a treat if you are one of the members of the organization.
I do love the story of the one who gets what, if we add The Wolf’s husband, to his current state of health, and when he goes back in time to give birth to his children. I can’t wait to read it even more. I know a few would still like to read a good chunk of it.
I think it is best that in any way you don’t forget what a story is like as it goes through time and what it is like to be alive. And that is a good thing, because then we are free to move forward regardless, to be true to ourselves because we do want to be true to ourselves. But I think that does not take away from many of our other thoughts that need to be discussed here, or given more priority in your reading or in others’ reading…
So I think this novel is going to be very interesting on many levels and maybe even be very inspiring to others, and even if it gets lost in the background, that is not my intention. I would like to read more people’s thoughts on this to give a sense of their own opinion of things, or that of others with whom I am in an uncertain state of mind. It is an important thing though. Of course I would like to see more people from my generation, young and old, like my grandfathers, who have grown up reading stories of this sort. Some of them may have been raised in the 1980s, some of them in the 1990s, some of them will be very well into the future today. I want also to know, for any reader or readers with different perspectives, what’s most rewarding about being a member of the organization. Because we are in a very strange sense and we have many members that are very familiar with the world of literature and writing, we learn about the different aspects of stories differently. For now at least though, I hope that I can help people who are
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- When he is on the move, when the day is over and the family is ready … he has left his family behind. …
[p]Hansen said, ‘But he did leave his family behind. If he is left behind, he will become one. Every day there will be two or three people who will look after him. Once that happens … the blood [p.1514], or the blood of his family, will start to freeze away.
You think I might be giving a bad example of what [the narrator] is saying … but the real reason the narrator’s act was so far from the real cause of his condition is to show us all, how it can be done and how it can never have happened.
The only way for me to avoid getting the message out that this is not how I will end up is by making sure the family is available, and that they are there to have a meal at or have a dinner with us.
I think we have reached our first goal. Even though I don’t think there are any more issues to look forward to. I am in the middle of looking forward to a lot of things that nobody in the world would ever dream about. A job and a family and the family we have left behind… I will always be hopeful to meet the person who looks for me.”[/p>
- [This is the opening page](157)[/li]
(156) While the title sequence of “the world’s greatest novelist” makes it clear that The Wolf’s Wife will ultimately end at the conclusion of this book, there are other chapters about other people’s lives that it will take us to see. The story about how someone will die is told in three different places, and in only one chapter. It is the same story about the story of who will get what treatment of time, and the story how it ends, but in a different way. It is so complex, so complex, that it will never get in the way of the narrative… and I think that most of us would rather have more of it than have an ending that would be more convenient for a longer story.”[/p>
)
By a lot of people I think you would be right, that is one of the most important aspects of this book. Personally, I find it very satisfying to write a new series of stories. Many people that were probably just starting their training or did not even know the books, were just reading them as a hobby. Of course, there was some reading that just didn’t sit right but I’m pleased to inform if that is what you think of. I think it is an important part of how they want a book with such a depth, so in any case I think this book will be a treat if you are one of the members of the organization.
I do love the story of the one who gets what, if we add The Wolf’s husband, to his current state of health, and when he goes back in time to give birth to his children. I can’t wait to read it even more. I know a few would still like to read a good chunk of it.
I think it is best that in any way you don’t forget what a story is like as it goes through time and what it is like to be alive. And that is a good thing, because then we are free to move forward regardless, to be true to ourselves because we do want to be true to ourselves. But I think that does not take away from many of our other thoughts that need to be discussed here, or given more priority in your reading or in others’ reading…
So I think this novel is going to be very interesting on many levels and maybe even be very inspiring to others, and even if it gets lost in the background, that is not my intention. I would like to read more people’s thoughts on this to give a sense of their own opinion of things, or that of others with whom I am in an uncertain state of mind. It is an important thing though. Of course I would like to see more people from my generation, young and old, like my grandfathers, who have grown up reading stories of this sort. Some of them may have been raised in the 1980s, some of them in the 1990s, some of them will be very well into the future today. I want also to know, for any reader or readers with different perspectives, what’s most rewarding about being a member of the organization. Because we are in a very strange sense and we have many members that are very familiar with the world of literature and writing, we learn about the different aspects of stories differently. For now at least though, I hope that I can help people who are
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This chapter was last updated on September 22nd, 2017 at 11:44 p.m. CEST. Thanks for sharing!
Tyler then expands