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 * Fight Club **

**"On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero."** **"Just punch me." "It’s only after you’ve lost everything, that you’re free to do anything." **
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. -Reviewed by Louis Maistros
 * Unlike the film, the book version of “Fight Club” isn’t filled with lively, well-developed, pseudo-hip, angst-ridden characters. This is a narration where only the narrator really matters. This is a study in narcissism of the self-destructive variety. This is a counterculture rant **======


 * "Fight Club is amazing book, one i have read again and again and again.. Palahniuk forces breaths to be held from beginning to end, and inspires the reader to** **think about their own way of life by showing how by simply meeting someone who can make us think, this way can be completely changed. I love this man."** --Kookabara, Resident Scholar

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 * Although the story seems rather unsophisticated, it is anything but. It is the underlying message within this book that is fascinating. We do have an entire generation of men out there (perhaps several) who don’t know how to be men because they’ve had no father figure in their lives. They think to be a man means to fight and to destroy; they’ve never had someone show them a man doesn’t have to do these things to be “manly.” We have a whole generation of people who don’t know why they do what they do.** -William Foley

My first quote from the book is: "On a large enough time line, the survival for everyone will drop to zero." This means that no one is coming out of this life surviving. But what i think it means, pertaining to this book, is that: your gonna die anyway so why would you try to survive. This shows in the characters actions in the book. The characters do crazy and outrageous things not caring about the outcome nor the affect on the people around them. For example: Tyler has spent his whole life trying to bring everyone down. From peeing in rich people's soup to making homemade bombs, he just wont stop anything. The only time he will stop is when he has witnessed the world hit rock bottom. He knows he is no one will survive this life anyway so at least he wants to see people die miserable and be miserable for their whole lifes. Tyler thinks you might as well do as you please because everyone is dieing. And if Tyler is going down, he wants to take the world with him.

My second quote from my book is: "Just punch me." this is how the whole entire fight club got started. The narrator had just met Tyler, they were at a bar. Tyler told the narrator to punch him, saying it would make him feel better. The narrator finally delivers a sissy punch right to Tylers neck. They get into a fight. Tyler was right, the narrtor thought, it does make him feel better. This is how it all started. The narrator could not have guessed that one punch would be the start of such a horrid thing. Figth Club was made for Tyler, he wanted to destry the world, he had it planned all along, the narrator was just his pawn. Looking back at what the narrator did, I bet he really regreted listening to Tyler that fateful night when he took Tylers advice when he said, "Just punch me."

My third, and final, quote reads, "Its only after you've lost everything, that your free to do anything." This, i feel, is what Tyler lived by, and tried to get everyone around him to live by. This is true, in a way. Once you have lost everything, you have nothing else to lose. With having nothing else to lose, then your alot more brave because you have gacen up and stopped looking for reasons to live for. When you have nothing at all to worry about, you are free. Free to do whatever, not careing what happens to you. But when you have this thought stuck in your mind, things can get out of control. Take the narrator, for example, he felt he had nothing to live for, that his life had no meaning, so he started following this voice in his head that he believed was really a person, Tyler. He ended up going to complete extremes toMy pictuire bring meaning into his life, unfortuantly, it was a very negative meaning. The narrator allowed himself to be taken over by his soul-less, dark, alternate ego.

My first video, is labeled Fight Club Movie Trailer. Someone thought that this book was important and eventful enough to make a movie out of. It starts out with one of the most major events, how fight club started. It starts with that fateful punch that starts all the chaos to come. They it explains how boring and meaningless the narrators life is, his job and his home life. The narrator goes out seeking meaning in this world and this is when he makes the biggest mistake of his life, he meets Tyler. It also shows how draskic the rules are at fight club. The first and most important, you don't talk about Fight Club. This video shows how others knew they were fighting, from their various injuries, and if they knew how they got it, they couldn't talk with them about it. In the video, Tyler tells the narrator that, "You were looking for a way to change your life, and you got it." I don't think this was quite the extreme the narrator was looking for. Sure, he was looking for meaning, but I dont think he was looking for the type of meaning where all he wanted to do was watch the world burn. I think the narrator was looking for a little less.

My picture, is a man looking in a mirror. This is the narrator. This symbolizes him looking not liking what he sees in himself. When he looks at himself now, he sees Tyler. He sees what he has become and he is ashamed, he doesn't know how it got to this point. The narrator let Tyler completly take him over as a person. The narrator became this dark person that even he himself could not have expected. This picture could also be him realizing that he and Tyler are the same person, and realizing he had to get rid of Tyler. It was a big shock to him to know what Tyler has him and he was Tyler. The Fight Club and all the horrible things the narrator got caught up in blinding him from the truth. Blinded him from seeing who he had become and who he truely is.

Finally, my last video. It is titled Blazing Saddles-The French Mistake. As i was watching the movie Blazing Saddles, I made the conection to this book. In this video, people come barging in disturbing the peace. This is like Tyler barging into the narrators life and creating all the chaos. This shows your life can change in a split second, Once you meet that person, or once that wall comes crashing down, your life is instantly changed. Also, in this video, everything changes with just one punch. That punch sets off a chain of events that cannot be stopped however you try. Like in the book, that one punch set off a chain of explosive events that changed his life so it may never be the same again. It only takes a spart to light a out-of-control fire! One thing to start the sequence, and the snow ball of insane events starts. The events that happen after that opne punch, are not easy to stop, although very easy to start.