Fight Club

Words: 1503
Pages: 7

The novel fight club is written by Chuck Palahniuk. Everybody have their own dreams and wishes in the world that they want them to achieve, but it is not easy to find out what is important in life and what is unimportant. Some people have difficulties about their lives about what they want, but on the other hand some people knows very well. Narrator in fight club has no idea what he wants and what is the meaning of his life. In the novel narrator was trying to escape from the consumer culture that drown him in the unreal, meaningless, and loneliness life. The narrator creates and use his split personality, Tyler Durden form fight club, so he can feel alive and understand what is important for his life. Narrator of the novel is living …show more content…
At the beginning, when the insomnia starts, the narrator only goes to support the group, the places where people who have illnesses and diseases gather and tell each other’s their secrets and different stories, and use them as a cure for their insomnia. The narrator mentions that “I feel more alive than I have ever felt” (Palahniuk 22) that is why is feel alive to him to join this group. Gel Gizzo mentions that whenever he goes to support the group “where he is touched” the narrator feels like he is part of the something special and significant. For that reason narrator feels like he is alive and able to escape from his unreal and meaningless …show more content…
That is the main thing people do in the fight club they feel pain and fight for their injuries. “You are not alive anywhere like you are alive at fight club” (Palahniuk 51). That shows us that through pain the narrator really feels his existence. Asbjorn Gronstad confirms that “pain means to be directly exposed to being”. Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen also confirms that “through physical pain a sublime body: arises a living body” (65). The physical contact in fight club brings the narrator to his life as he