Character Analysis: The Joy Luck Club

like father like son, and that scares Tyler a bit. He sees domestic violence at home. He explains,

Tyler is like a termite or a cockroach as he is rarely seen in public; and when you do catch a glimpse of him, there are a thousand more of his

Bryce enjoys being around his friends and enjoys the extracurricular activities they get to participate in. He does a great job in expressing his idea and viewpoint on things he is passionate about and receiving feedback on even though I think sometimes feedback from his peers doesn’t matter to him. Most times in group or when with teachers Bryce is the example child or the child that would be most trusted to be the leader but if chosen not to be the leader he does good in following directions.

named after his father. His mother name was Willie Maxine Perry. He is one of 4 siblings. He grew up in an abusive home. His father was very abusive to him and he even got sexually molested as a child by his friend parent, a nurse and his parent’s friend. He describes his father “as a man whose answer to everything was to beat it out of you”. His mother was his only comfort and would take him to church. The way Tyler Perry wanted to separate himself from his father he even changed his name to Tyler at the age of 16 because of his abusive relationship with him. Tyler grew up in a poor neighborhood. He did not finish high school but he earned his GED

Tyler is hard working to the extreme and has never taken the easy way out of anything. My brother is a masonry meaning he lays bricks and fixes houses and building. He even builds houses’s. Tyler does the first and the second shift because he never passes opportunities up. He has left the house by 6:30 a.m. everyday and doesn’t return home till around 8:00p.m. doing a full day’s work. That’s over a 14 hour shift, and he’s only 19. These are some of the many reasons Tyler my brother is my Michigan Hero.

Tyler is also the son of Elizabeth (Arthur’s second wife) and had to move to Israel with her because it was written as one of her custody in their divorce papers. He was 8 when he heard that his father passed away and fled away from the country due to flu spreading vast fully throughout the world. 20yrs passes by and now he is known as the Prophet, the most feared person throughout the city, with a society of people who worship him because he is chosen by god. In chapter 53, we go back into the past 15mins before the play was about to start, Arthurs calls Tyler who’s angry at him because he attend his birthday but, they conversed over how great the comic book Station Eleven, not knowing that this would be their last discussion. This proves my thesis because it shows how Arthur didn’t really give/have enough time being with his son. Since he grew up without a father teaching him what’s right from wrong, Tyler became the fearful Prophet that ended up getting shot in the head by one of his believers. So in other words Arthur’s actions affected future events to become as what they are by making bad life choices that harmed Tyler’s path of life. If Arthur ending up as a loyal husband & father none of this would have

Tyler is a nihilist because he does not believe in the value of friendship or loyalty. Tyler's main drive is to destroy the narrator's life. Tyler has not emotional connection to people, and he also has no regrets. He, eventually, forces this philosophy onto the narrator and thereby transforms him into Tyler Durden. In the first chapters of the novel, it is difficult to distinguish the narrator and Tyler because of the effect that Tyler had on the narrator's personality. Tyler emphasizes this point when he says, “I used to be a nice person” (Palahniuk 98). Eventually, Tyler destroys the narrator's humanity and pulls him from the senses that control societal actions.

As an audience, throughout the film it is evident that there is a significant contrast between the narrator and Tyler as they view many things differently. Just like the Fight Club and the IKEA furniture, the narrator becomes obsessed with Tyler and the life he leads. When Tyler is first introduced as a passenger on the airplane, the narrator is immediately drawn to him in a way that is different than any other person he has met. He feels a connection with him that he has not felt before, which is why he calls him when his apartment burns and he loses all of his important IKEA furniture. Tyler tells him it’s “just stuff” (Fight Club) and “the things you own end up owning you” (Fight Club), which completely contradicts everything the narrator had previously believed about his home and the furniture. Through Tyler, the narrator starts to lose his need for material objects when Tyler tells him “Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may” (Fight Club), instead he focuses on the fighting and his friendship with Tyler since he has finally found something that fills the void in his life and gives it meaning. Though it may seem abstract that Tyler would fit into this argument, it all comes together at the end of the film when the audience finds

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¨The Joy Luck Club¨ by Amy Tan was an interesting novel. The book consisted of about eight characters, meaning eight different perspectives. Each of which, had a whole chapter or two dedicated to a short story in there life. They tell each other these life stories at a gathering they have every once in awhile to play mah jong. Throughout each story, or chapter, the mothers try to connect more with their daughters, and the daughters try to connect more with their mothers. It makes you wonder how well daughters know their mothers.

Throughout the movie though it seems that everything that Tyler did, he (Edward) did as well. Like everything was always was done together. Everything that needed to be expressed came from Tyler as if he was speaking for him (Edward). But then became the recruiting of their members from the fight club. When he started

I am an intern with the Quad City Mallards, and as I sit at the Fan Accommodations table I watch Tyler interact with the people. He has a way that makes people feel welcomed and he makes it his duty to remember everybody that he comes across. As I help fans, I will have at least 3 people come and ask where Tyler is. Most of the time it isn’t because they need help, they just generally enjoy talking to him. The way he holds himself is extraordinary; chin held high, always happy, and nothing you do can bring him down. No matter who you are, you can see the charisma that he carries with him from a mile away. Tyler is

I believe Jack created Tyler in order to find his masculinity. When Jack loses everything he has, he does not know how to cope with such an excessive amount of stress. At this point, he turns to Tyler. Together, the two of them create Fight Club, a new way for men to relieve their stress and find their strength. Jack confesses to Tyler that he never really knew his father because he abandoned him when he was about six years old. Since he was raised by his mother, this becomes the movie’s best indication of why he suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder. Jack never had a male role

We were missing another face between Gary and Tyler; Gray’s best-ever friends, charming, capable and downright tall too.

He lives in an old house that was most likely condemned a century ago. It sits in front of an old factory. His nearest neighbor is a mile and half away. Tyler makes and sells soap. He also has other jobs that afford him time to do not so pleasant things such as urinate in soup at high class restaurants and splice objectionable images into family films in major theater chains. Tyler has no rules, no limits, but he gives no breaks either, you either follow him or are against him. Tyler tries to better people in weird off the wall ways. Whereas Jack is such the sheep that he follows everyone else as compared to Tyler who is the one who tries to change society and Jack follows him because Tyler is the way he is not. Jack is intoxicated by Pitt’s character, Tyler Durden, who lacks inhibition, just as Jack lacks personal freedom.