The Fight Club By Chuck Palahniuk

Australia is filled with many different aspects in which makes it the country it is today. I believe it is important to study texts that explore aspects of Australia by studying texts such as ‘The Club’, by David Williamson, a play written in 1977 about an Australian football club and movies such as “The Castle”, directed by Rob Stitch in 1997, about the daily life of an Australian family when their happiness is threatened when developers attempt to buy their house to expand the neighboring airport. Both these texts show us what Australian life was like in the past. By us looking at themes such as language, tradition and the mateship shown we are able to explore different aspects of Australia that make it what it is today.

Documentaries are usually boring, just spitting facts at the viewers. Not Michael Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine,” this film was very different from any other documentary. It was not simply facts, instead Moore took a different approach to get the attention of the less informed. Learning a lot throughout the film, it would be a great recommendation for anyone looking to learn about the gun accessibility and violence within America.

Fight club was a story about a man/the narrator struggling with a mental disease, he creates an imaginary friend so that he can feel that his emotions are not invalid. I discovered something captivating about his making of Tyler Durden and how it permitted him to change into who he wanted to be. Aside from the vicious and unlawful nature of the change, I thought it was really commendable. I cherished the fact that he could improve his situation and have an impact on others essentially by changing his mindset. This story helped me understand the power of the mind and where my potential could lead if I found my own ‘Tyler Durden’. The Metamorphosis was a story about a man who put his family’s needs over his. After his transition into a bug, he soon realizes he was only a burden on them. The way Gregor was treated before and after his transition was very cold and heartless. The story aimed to reflect a money-driven society, people’s mercenary and their cold shoulders toward human nature. It also reflected the distorted social realities under the influence of the society and teaches us not to take people in our lives for

or this project we viewed the original 1957 version of Twelve Angry Men, an American Drama, adapted from the teleplay written by Reginald Rose with the same name starring Henry Fonda as the lead role.

Harrison Bergeron by “Kurt Vonnegut” is set in the year 2081, where all the people have been made equal through mental and physical handicaps. No one is slower, weaker, or smarter than anyone else. Harrison Bergeron who is taken from is family when he was fourteen years old has escaped. He takes off is handicaps, declares himself emperor and chooses one of the ballerinas to become his empress. After dancing and flying, Handicap General Diana Moon Glampers shoots them both dead. The theme of this story is total equality is not ideal as people may believe. It’s a mistaken goal that can result into a dangerous outcome.

Kurt Vonnegut followed many principles in his writings. He claimed that “people do not realize that they are happy” (PBS NOW Transcript). Feeling that people had the wrong view on war, he felt that he needed to get the facts straight. Vonnegut believed that art can come from awful situations, and that the truth is not always easy to look at. Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse – Five to tell of his experience in the bombing of Dresden, as a prisoner in war and the atrocities that occurred.

The novel-based American drama movie Rumble Fish was directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983-the author of the novel S.E. Hinton also co-wrote the screen play. The cinematographer is Stephen Burum, the music is by Stewart Copeland, and the editor is Barry Malkin and the. Zoetrope Studios produced the movie with a 10-million-dollar budget (Clarke).

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut takes places on two contrasting planets. One is Earth, where war tears apart families and minds, and the other is Tralfamadore, where supernatural alien beings share their extended knowledge of the world. Vonnegut uses the two planets, Earth and Tralfamadore, to show the contrasting ideas of chaos and order, and that human actions have limitations that render them helpless against a meaningless universe.

“The American Sniper” by Chris Kyle is an account of the deadliest American sniper ever. He was called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyle 's kills (the previous American record was 109). Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him Al-Shaitan meaning “the devil” and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned

The literary element setting includes the time when the story happens and location where the story takes place. Some stories use variety of settings to initiate an interesting beginning. However, the 12 Angry Man has only one fixed setting – the jury room, which is not commonly used in a novel. The author, Reginald Rose, overcomes the limitation in setting by describing changes in weather, initiating different types of character and imitating the events of the murder.

The book “Among the Thugs” from 1992 written by William Buford, describes Buford’s own experiences with hooliganism. The text is about the British football culture and the hooligan-ism that follows. Throughout the text, we follow the American Journalist Bill Buford, who is located at a train station in Cardiff, where he for the first time became acquainted with hooli-ganism. Hundreds of Liverpool supporters robbed the station, terrorized the area and fought with everything and everyone. His reaction to their loud behavior and performances over-whelms him a lot. Later in the text, Bill meets a united ultra from Manchester United's firm, Mick. After hanging out with him, Bill is persuaded to join the firm on matchday. This was the beginning of a whole new day for Bill Buford as a thug and a member of the firm. This analytical essay will be based on comments from Bill Buford experiences, the structure, language, receiver and the purpose of the text.

The Public Enemy by William Wellman (1931) is a renowned gangster film that paved the way for an emerging genre whilst maximizing the use of sound technology of which the effects were still reverberating around Hollywood in the 1930’s to amplify and exaggerate the narrative as well as other elements such as mise-en-scene but also to assault audience with a new experience. The emergence of an all-talking gangster film that capitalized upon and left a lasting impression on the audience and on society as it commented on social and economic issues that surrounded the American people such as race and social status. However, at the time when The Public Enemy was released in 1931, Hollywood was beginning to feel the effects of the Wall Street Crash, which meant that they began producing films that their audience wanted to see and that we’re affordable which lead to the rise of the gangster genre, which flourished for the next few years. Ruth Vasey’s assessment of The Public Enemy is incredibly insightful into how sound impacted the film and its audience but also how sound was used in correlation with the other elements of the film to create its visceral impact on the audience. However with the introduction of sound, more obstacles we’re discovered such as the issue of censorship as it had a “perceived capacity to undermine middle-class vales”.

“If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized… There is no free will. There are no variables” (Palahniuk). In the book Survivor, one about a dangerous cult, Chuck Palahniuk writes this to clarify how powerless we are to the patterns of history unless we actively work to prevent them. This is not to say Polish culture possesses the mentality of a cult in any way, but the message still carries weight. The decades of sacrifice and struggle that Poles endured to rid themselves of communism may very well come undone in the coming years. Who could have predicted such political inversion in a country torn apart internally by a communist regime. Despite a relatively

At first glance, Chuck Palahniuk’s award-winning novel Fight Club gives the impression that it is a simple story revolving around a man who struggles to manage his insomnia. However, a deeper literary analysis will show readers that the novel is much more than that. Fight Club is actually a cleverly written novel that contains many elements of Marxist and psychoanalytic theories throughout the storyline. Marxism is based on the concepts of Karl Marx’s theories that focuses on class relations and social conflict. On the other hand, psychoanalytic criticism stems from Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychology. The novel is best interpreted from a Marxist point of view because Palahniuk uses Fight Club as a means of expressing his

The Truth Machine had a terrifying aspect about it. Halperin’s idea of a future with no lies sounds delightful at first, but once you scratch the surface and realize that includes white lies you can see the complications that may commence. I could see his future happening if we used the machine only in trials, but I would not eliminate a jury completely. Machines are able to be tampered with, no matter how well they are engineered. The Truth Machine furthered my belief that humans create themselves from their past experiences.