This week I'm reading fight club. I've already ready seen the movie so I know the basic plot. I usually end up liking books alot more than the movie version but I have heard that the movie is better in this case. Its going to be interesting reading this book because i pretty much know what happens so I can look at the differences between the two. I can also look for foreshadowing in the story.
Chuck Palahniuk has a very dark writing style the first chapter is very morbid. The narrator is a depressed insomniac that goes to cancer support groups to cry and feel better about him self. so he's obviously screwed up. Reading about all 0f these terminally ill people is really depressing, reading about the narrator going to these support groups even though he isn't terminally ill is more depressing.
The first place I see fore shadowing is when he talks about Tyler Durden in chapter two. the narrator talks about waking up in several different airports. In between this he talks about Tyler's job as a movie projectionist. He constantly says "I know this because Tyler knows this" this is the first sign indicating he has a split personality.
I'm not totally sure but I think this is also foreshadowing that the narrator is skitzo. "in change overs you have two projectors and one projector is running. I know this because Tyler knows this. The second projector is set up with the next roll of film." This quote symbolizes how Tyler Durden and the narrator are two parts of the same thing.
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