At the end of Fight Club I decided to revise my theme for the story, I believe Fight Club is about a man seeing no purpose and no reason for everything in his own existence. So his mind creates a purpose for him to live. It forces him to become a leader, a lover, and a happier person. Tyler saved him from his own destruction in the end, he taught him to find his true manhood and well as his soul. At the end of the book he learns Tyler will soon blow up half the city. The only way to stop Tyler.. himself, is to put a bullet in his mouth. As Marla watches he shoots a bullet in his mouth. The bullet fly's out the side of his mouth, but kills Tyler. The act of attempting to kill himself in order to kill Tyler was enough to subconsciously kill Tyler, and he survived in the process. Fight Club in the simplest way, is about founding a purpose for yourself, in a world where there isn't one.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Fight Club: Plot Twist
The big revelation of Fight Club was revealed in my last reading and it all makes sense to me. The reason for the main characters confusion, his insanity, and his need for destruction. Tyler Durden is him. He is Tyler Durden. When he sleeps, Tyler wakes up and carries out Project Mayhem. Tyler is who he wants to be deep down. he wants people to look at him like they do Tyler, especially Marla. He realizes he's in love with Marla and that his brain created Tyler to reach Marla. But he doesn't want the world to burn. He doesn't want Tyler to carry out his plans. He is scared of Tyler. He plans on killing Tyler and saving himself from his own demise.
Fight Club: Characterization
Tyler has set in place "Project Mayhem" he wants human nature as we know it, to crumble and burn. He thinks we should roam the earth wild, fighting for our food and supplies. Survive rather than thrive. He hates everything and everyone, he wants to plant bombs all around a city and click the button that destroys it all. He says people try to find comfort through god in hard times, but they don't get his attention. He wants to get gods attention and he thinks this negative attention is better than being ignored by god. Tyler is recruiting 72 Fight Club members for Project Mayhem. They all have assigned jobs in the project. The first rule of Project Mayhem is.. Don't talk about Project Mayhem.
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