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Pain, both emotional and physical pain, are two very important aspects of humanity which can be defined by a multitude of emotions and states of minds. Chuck Palahniuk, in his book titled Flight Club captures this notion of pain and self destruction and the existence and importance pain has in each of our lives. Everyone experiences some degree of pain in their lifetime, whether the pain we combat is emotional pain, caused by a traumatic experience in life or physical pain that is caused by self infliction or by someone else. I think a lot of people use pain as an escape mechanism; in the novel Fight Club it certainly seems like it is used as a means of escape from life but oddly enough it is also used to represent life. The complete visceral and jarring experience of having your lights punched out seems to be Fight Club’s way of offering its characters a means of escape from a pathetically pampered, pain free existence, but at the same time it is creating life for many of the......

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