Fight Club
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In his debut novel "Fight Club," Chuck Palahniuk realisticly shows through writing techniques how the Narrator finds his father to be the source of all his problems. Throughout the Narrator's life his father had an extreme lack of personal interest in his son; he reaches middle age and finds he has no priorites. By using writing techniques such as word-choice, tone, characterisation; Palahniuk convincingly shows how the Narrator's problems originated due to many years of ignorance and neglect.
Somewhere in New York during the year 2000, a middle aged insomniac joins a brain parasite support group out of curiosity. He finds that when the group's members cry about their disease he can cry about himself, after his crying session he can sleep like a baby. He joins many other groups until realising his wrong doing; he stops attending the groups the insomnia returns. After a drinking session with an interesting new friend, Tyler, both men mock fight which becomes real. Both characters enjoy this, later that night the narrator sleeps soundly. This happens every week and other punters join the fights, Fight Club is born. Later Fight Club progresses into Project Mayhem where men cause anarachy for pleasure...