Fight Club: An Awakening To Life
Fight Club: An Awakening to Life
At 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 doesn't 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 narrator's 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 aren't alive anywhere like your alive at fight......
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