Fight Club

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to the poster and says, �Is that what a man looks like� (Fight Club, 1999). Society tells us how we should look, what to own, and even what to say. An object as simple as a billboard of a skinny, tall, starved supermodel can cause women all over the world to go as far as becoming anorexic to portray these images that society has provided. The unnamed main character was living a life with no direction or further future, he finds himself shopping from consumer catalogs to relieve himself from his everyday structured life. �A slave to the �IKEA nesting instinct,� Jack self-consciously offers up rhetorical questions such as �What kind of dining set defines me as a person?� But Jack�s IKEA-designed apartment appears to offer him no respite from the emptiness in his life, and his consumerist urges only seem to reinforce his lack of enthusiasm for packing himself as a corporate puppet and presenting himself as a Tom Peters up-and-coming �brand name�� (Dr. Giroux, 2010).
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main character was hesitant to hit Tyler, Tyler asks �Have you never been in a fight?� and the main character said �No.� Tyler responds by saying, �How much can you possibly know about yourself if you�ve never been in a fight� (Fight Club, 1999). Fighting was more than just a way to give themselves relief from their lives, it gave them a way to be a part of something bigger and meaningful. The fight club soon turned into a large group of males that were rebels of society, The fight club then transitioned to a group called �Project Mayhem�, and their main goal was to blow up the credit card company buildings to eliminate their records so that everyone would have a debt of zero and ...

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