Final Project

For my final project I decided to look at the book Fight Club. I chose to read the novel and after write 3 new synopsis' for the book as if it were different written with minor changes.

To begin here is the original synopsis of Fight Club: 

 Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret boxing matches in the basement of bars. There two men fight "as long as they have to." A gloriously original work that exposes what is at the core of our modern world.


Fight Club if it were a comedy: 

Title: Comedy Club
Synopsis: Comedy club follows the life of an your average ordinary business man, Tyler. Tyler lives a boring life of traveling across the country inspecting deadly car accidents. This life is not providing him with the life he wants causing him to create something never conceived. On his own accord Tyler creates an under ground world of comedians and clowns who come together once a week, gather in a circle, and do their best to make each other laugh. The first rule of comedy club is : you must laugh at comedy club. Comedy sets go on as long as the jokes stay well delivered and are well received.

Fight Club if it were an supernatural fantasy:

Title: Supernatural Club
Synopsis: Tyler lives an ordinary life as a vampire hunting and killing other things, drinking blood, avoiding sunlight, you know, the usual. But this life is boring to him. He's being doing it for centuries and it feels like the same thing over and over. Kill, drink, avoid, repeat. Over and over. He wants excitement in his life. Tyler comes up with a brilliant idea of creating an underground underworld club. At this club all types of supernatural beings come and hang out. Tyler creates the worlds first dance club for the supernatural. In doing this Tyler becomes super rich and famous and lives an awesome life and continues to do so for several hundred years, without anybody questioning how he hasnt aged, until one day he forgets about daylight savings and is tragically killed. But nobody knew, the maid just thought it was dust.

Fight Club if it were about cooking competition:

Title: Culinary Club
Synopsis: The novel Culinary Club follows the life of you're average everyday restaurant chef Tyler Durden. Tyler works at one Jeff Ruby's restaurants, he gets paid well but is quite bored. Every day he makes the same meals over and over again with little to no variation. The constant conjuring up of new dishes for the restaurant has kept Tyler awake for weeks and made him insomnic. The head chef of the restaurant tells him his dishes aren't good enough and to just give up. This puts him over the edge. Tyler leaves his job and rejects societies norms. The following week as his new found mental illness sets in Tyler thinks of the idea of Culinary Club. In this club people come together and cook against each other in a fierce competition. The cooking lasts as long as it has to until a winner is chosen. 

To end this post here is a picture of the T-rex from the first Jurassic Park movie: 

Lets talk about 'Fight Club'

“Fight Club” is an interesting book to say the least. Written from the view point of an insomnic man who lives a boring every day life as a recall analyst and spends his free time ordering furniture from IKEA magazines who’s life is turned upside down when he meets Tyler Durden, shortly after his apartment is blown to bits.

Throughout the novel many interesting things occur. First of all being that two grown men with jobs start an underground fight club that attracts other grown men with jobs. This club serves one purpose: to go against the basic laid down rules of society and as well as being a way to make these people feel free. Every thing about fight club goes against social norms, these men beat the crap out of each other and love it no matter if they win or lose, they just love the rush.

This book is written in the most weird ways I’ve ever seen. The book transitions from the main characters conversations with others to the conversations he has with himself while having conversations with others. The book is also written in quite a jumpy way. One minute he is talking to his boss, the next he is noting how if his boss is wearing  a gray tie it must be Tuesday, the next he is talking about how him and Tyler sabotaged some soups at some fancy rich hotel restaurant. The book flows like the mind of the main character. He is not consistent with any of his thoughts and is mind is constantly traveling from place to place, even though most of those places have nothing to do with the intial conversation he was involved in. By writing like this the author has really embodied the insomnic and metal problems the character is going through. Also, it talks about how it possible to make explosives from parts of soap. You may need that later on, you never know.

Overall,  if dark humored, twisted novels are not your thing I’d recommend staying away from ‘Fight Club,’ but hey, if you’re looking for a new writing style to check out or read about some really interesting characters I would highly recommend reading this novel. It could also mentally scar you though. For instance I was unaware that you could make soup by using human fat. Interesting.

To end this post here is a picture of Dave Franco: