Fight Tyler example essay topic

Joshua Cobble y period 14-9-00 Synopsis Night has fallen. Bombs are placed in the worlds largest building. A man rants about how the first step to take towards eternal life is death; while he shoves the barrel of a gun into the mouth of his best friend. ' We won't really die. ' Tyler says. 'This isn't really death, we " ll be legends.

'. But soon were the two men are standing will be nothing more than a point in the sky. A time laps camera will pick up all the action in 9 minutes. 'Here is the Parker Morris Building standing. Second picture, the building at an 80 degree angle. Then a 70 degree angle.

The building is at a 45 degree angle in the fourth picture skeleton starts to give and the tower gets a slight arch to it. The last shot, the tower, all one-hundred ninety- one floors, will slam down on the national museum which is Tyler's real target. ' And this is where our book beings. We examine a man. A man given no name. As the reader we know him only as the narrator.

This is a normal every day man. We see his kind a thousand times a day in the business district of any city. This is exactly what he is trying to escape. His entire world is factory produced.

All he is in society is a consumer. And he is losing it. He is suffering from real bad insomnia. He goes to the doctor who's only reply is 'Nobody has ever died from insomnia.

If you want to see real pain go to Trinity Episcopal church Thursday nights. ' So he did. There at in the basement there is a support group for sufferers of brain parasites. After the meeting he finds himself feeling better.

He can sleep again. Soon he is going to not only the brain parasites group but others as well: Testicular cancer, blood parasites, ascending bowel cancer, and others. It is easy or him to feel alive in these groups. That's why it helps.

Until one night during testicular cancer she walks in. Enter Marla Singer. Faker, get out of here you tourist, he repeats to himself. Her presents brings out his every lie in these groups. And they stop working for him pushing him a little farther.

Upon returning from a business trip he finds a crater that use to be his apartment in the side of his building. Everything he has worked for in life is now scattered in the street. While surprised he is completely impartial. Enter Tyler Durden. He uses the last bit of change in his pocket to call Tyler. They agree to meet at a bar they have a couple pitchers of beer and Tyler offers the narrator a room at his place on one condition.

'I want you to hit me as hard as you can. '. In that blow to Tyler's ear everything changed. Somewhere in between moments the man that was began to die and a man was born.

'You want me to what? !'. .. 'Have you ever been in a fight?' Tyler ask " No. ' 'Well neither have I... I just don't want to die without my scars.'s oon after dozens of men gather for 'Fight Club'.

At first they are there to feed their curiosity but that motive soon changes. More and more men gather to hear Tyler's philosophies. We are the Middle children of history, with no purpose or place. We have no great depression.

Our war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We are a generation of me raised by women. Tyler speaks to people. He say's the things many have thought but never said, and he dose something about it.

Fight Club spreads like a wild fire. Soon it is not just in the basement of one local bar It's all over the city. Then the country, at each one the words are chanted " The first rule of Fight club is you do not talk about fight club. The Second rule of fight club is you do not talk about Fight Club.

The third rule of Fight Club is when someone yells stop taps out or goes limp the fight is over. Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirt or shoes. Fights go on as long as they have to; and if this if your first night at fight club you have to fight.

' Tyler realizes that this is not enough. Fight Club is the first step to something much bigger and more important. Something Tyler calls Project Mayhem. Only the most determined members of Fight Club can make it into the project. Tyler wants to bring down society and civilization. He wants a world were men can climb the side of the Sears Tower on vines.

Where you can hunt wild elk on Broadway Av. This whole while our narrator has been along for the ride. He has helped Tyler render fat to make soap for the Paper Street Soap Company. He has no clue what Tyler is doing any more.

He hardly sees Tyler and the 'space monkeys' as they are called wander around the house. Tending to the garden, rendering fat, and doing Tyler's homework assignments. The narrator feels lost and betrayed. He and Tyler started Fight Club, but now Tyler is gone all the space monkeys are running around the house and he is lost. He finds Tyler. He finds him when he wanders into a bar and the bartender says to him 'Welcome back Mr. Durden.

' Slowly at first then the flood gates in his mind open and he sees that he is Tyler Durden. Tyler is the other half of his personality. That first night after his apartment was gone it was his own ear he was hitting. And now he was shoving a gun into his own mouth on top of the Parker Morris Building while Tyler speaks; and the whole building is wired with explosives. I wont tell you how the book ends. I will let you see that for yourself should you ever read the book.

It is far better than what I have hear but this is none the less the story. This book has power. This is what pushes the weak minded over the limit. This is what people blame for Columbine.

It is a dark, dark, dark book. If you open the pages I must warn you. Get ready for a pretty wild ride.