Fight Club Lesson 9

Fight Club
Lesson 9

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Fight Club
Lesson 9

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Plot
Essay writing

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Freytag's Pyramid


Can you fill in Freytag's pyramid for Fight Club

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Plot - Exposition
The narrator describes the current state of his life, and how it is terrible living with insomnia. He starts attending support groups as psychotherapy for his insomnia, which soon stops working after Marla inadvertently exposes him of faking illnesses, causing him to feel guilty. He meets Tyler who invites him to move in with him under one condition, which was to "hit me as hard as you can." (p. 46)

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Plot - Rising Action
Fight Club is established and it soon evolves into Project Mayhem, a terrorist cult determined to create chaos as a means of opposing consumerism. 
One rebellious activity results in a close friend of the narrator's, "Bitch Tits" Robert Paulson, and realizes how destructive Project Mayhem is becoming.
The narrator learns the truth about Tyler's identity through Marla. The narrator decides to take down Tyler, but Tyler gets the best of him and as a gun pointed at his head. He then tells the narrator that the building they are in will detonate in a matter of minutes, planning to die as a martyr for his cause.

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Plot - Climax
Marla barely arrives in time with support group members, and as she was approaching the narrator Tyler suddenly vanished, as "he was my hallucination, not hers" (p. 204). The narrator now finds that he's pointing the gun at himself.
Marla and the support group members try convincing the narrator not to shoot himself, however he has already decided that it was the only way to get rid of Tyler for good. Making the first real decision of his own desire, he pulls the trigger.

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Plot - Falling Action
 The narrator thinks that he is in Heaven. God asks the narrator why he has caused him so much pain, why he hasn't realized that everyone is a sacred, unique snowflake, and how we're all manifestations of love. The narrator replies saying that none of us are special, but also, that we're not garbage either. Instead, "We just are." (p. 207)

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Plot - Resolution
In reality, the narrator survives, and is recovering in a hospital bed 
The employees of the hospital reveal themselves to the narrator as Project Mayhem members. The novel ends with the employees saying and whispering the following: "We miss you Mr. Durden" and "Everything's going according to plan" (p. 208). "We're going to break up civilization so we can make something better out of the world" and "We look forward to getting you back" (p. 208).
The narrator learns Project Mayhem continues.

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