Fight Club is a perfect novel for the times. Many American men, including myself, have found that they are frustrated with modern day society’s views are how we should behave. Chuck took this issue head on, creating a character who was well behaved on the surface, but haunted by something dark deep down inside of him. This in turn made him want to fight, or “destroy something beautiful” not for any particular reason, but to just feel the pain from it or to feel anything at all. Justin Garrison writes in his article God’s Middle Children’ Metaphysical Rebellion in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club,
Throughout their lives, human beings seek meaning, community, and purpose. People want to understand what it means to be alive. They want to love and …show more content…
That is what the characters in Fight Club are doing. They are seeing that they are unhappy with their lives, and decide to change them drastically. I found that throughout my research so many people are able to connect with Fight Club because the character are so real and deal with the problems that we deal with on a day to day basis. The world is a lonely and unjust place and that is what makes Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club so important. It shows us that we don’t need to buy the newest piece of furniture or wear the fanciest clothes to be accepted, despite what the media feeds you, but that what we need to be truly happy is to find meaning in our lives whatever the cost may be.
Choke is another eccentric novel written by Chuck Palahniuk centered on a character that is willingly to put himself through great amounts of pain, both psychically and mentally, to rid himself of the identity that society has labeled him. Francisco Collado- Rodriguez wrote this about Choke in his detailed analysis Textual Unreliabilty, Trauma, and the fantastic, In Chuck Palahniuk’s
Throughout their lives, human beings seek meaning, community, and purpose. People want to understand what it means to be alive. They want to love and …show more content…
That is what the characters in Fight Club are doing. They are seeing that they are unhappy with their lives, and decide to change them drastically. I found that throughout my research so many people are able to connect with Fight Club because the character are so real and deal with the problems that we deal with on a day to day basis. The world is a lonely and unjust place and that is what makes Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club so important. It shows us that we don’t need to buy the newest piece of furniture or wear the fanciest clothes to be accepted, despite what the media feeds you, but that what we need to be truly happy is to find meaning in our lives whatever the cost may be.
Choke is another eccentric novel written by Chuck Palahniuk centered on a character that is willingly to put himself through great amounts of pain, both psychically and mentally, to rid himself of the identity that society has labeled him. Francisco Collado- Rodriguez wrote this about Choke in his detailed analysis Textual Unreliabilty, Trauma, and the fantastic, In Chuck Palahniuk’s