Fight Club Lesson 1

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Fight Club

Lesson 1

In Class Today

• Introduction to the theme & assessment
• Introduction to the author
• Introduction to the novel
• Start reading

Introduction to the Period

1. Introduction
2. The Narrator
3. Characterization
4. Mood & Setting
5. Foreshadowing
6. Symbolism
7. Theme
8. Plot
9. Altered Page 

The Assessment

Your goal for this theme is to transform or upcycle a book into a creative work of art that accurately analyses and represents literary components and your understanding of the novel you read with the class.

You will be utilizing a variety of different techniques and media to make your “Altered Book” interesting and eye-catching. 

This is a group assignment

But you will receive an individual assessment

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Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk, who was born in Pasco, Washington

 on February 21, 1962. 

He grew up in a blue-collar home, and after his parents were 

divorced, he often spent parts of his childhood living with his grandparents. 

He attended the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism in the 80’s and 

spent time working as a journalist. 

Chuck Palahniuk

Palahniuk was a hybrid worker, taking on blue-collar jobs, including one job as a mechanic, while also exercising his literary talents by writing how-to manuals for fixing trucks. 

He began writing seriously in his mid-thirties after attending a 

seminar hosted by writer Tom Spanbauer. This relationship would influence Palahniuk’s minimalist writing style. 

Fight Club

His first attempt at publication never garnered him an agent. He wrote a short story in response to his rejection from publishing agencies and this short story later became chapter six of his novel, Fight Club.  The first edition of the novel  had a short shelf life. 

Fight Club

 Interest in the novel from 20th Century Fox led to Palahniuk securing an agent, and later led to the film adaptation of his novel. 

The film and the novel have gone on to become cult hits, making Palahniuk an award-winning novelist.

Fight Club

Fight Club follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. 

Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy.

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