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Fight Club Chapter 19

2006-11-05T16:35:35Z

Rmcpherson: commentary added

== Summary ==
This chapter starts where chapter 18 left off in the car crash with the mechanic, Tyler Durden and three other space monkeys are in the back seat. The car has crashed and is off of the road. The space monkeys are in the back seat quiet, and the narrator wonders if they are passed out or asleep. The mechanic tells the narrator “You had a near–life experience. The mechanic explains to the narrator how the back bumper is hanging off of the car after he ran head on with another car. The narrator asks the mechanic if the car crash is a homework assignment. The mechanic explains that part of it is a homework assignment and that he had to make four human sacrifices and has to pick up a load of fat for the soap. The narrator ask the mechanic what Tyler is planning, and his answer sounds exactly the way Tyler would have said it if he was asked the question. “I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived…and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables”(141).The mechanic goes on saying young men and women are living in a world where they are chasing a false sense of reality by buying clothes and cars that they don’t need. He says that people work jobs that they hate just so they can buy what they don’t really need. “We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression” (141). The mechanic says that the only way to show people freedom is by enslaving them, and the way to show them courage is to frighten them. “The irony is that Fight Club, and later project Mayhem, reproduce the same effects of capitalism by creating the illusion of freedom through demands for self-regulation and self punishment” (Ta). The mechanic tells the narrator that they are headed to the medical waste incinerator to pick up the fat. == Notes ==

*'''Corniche[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Corniche]''' (140) - a Rolls-Royce's coupé and convertible version of the Silver Shadow produced between 1971 and 1996.

*'''Napoleon[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon]''' (141) - King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine

*'''Rockefeller Center[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_center]''' (142) - a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22-acres between 48th and 51st Streets in New York

*'''Robin Hood[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_hood]''' (142) - a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny.

*'''Hepatitis bug[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis]''' (142) -a gastroenterological disease, featuring inflammation of the liver

==Commentary==
In this chapter Palahniuk shows how Tyler has taken over the minds of the space monkeys. They all have the same thoughts as Tyler. Tyler's ideas of people working meaningless jobs to buy things they do not need is now what the space monkeys live by.

== Study Questions ==

#What herb is used in making the soap?
#How much is the soap sold for?
#What does the mechanic say they need to look for at the end of the chapter?
#Where does the narrator get hurt in the crash?
#What legendary character does the mechanic compare himself to when stealing the fat?
#Who is the soap bought by?

== Works Cited ==
Ta, Lynn M. “Hurt So Good: Fight Club, Masculine Violence, and the Crisis of Capitalism.” ''The Journal of American Culture''. 29.3 (2006). 265-274.

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Fight Club Chapter 19

2006-11-05T05:49:27Z

Rmcpherson:

== Summary ==
This chapter starts where chapter 18 left off in the car crash with the mechanic, Tyler Durden and three other space monkeys are in the back seat. The car has crashed and is off of the road. The space monkeys are in the back seat quiet, and the narrator wonders if they are passed out or asleep. The mechanic tells the narrator “You had a near–life experience. The mechanic explains to the narrator how the back bumper is hanging off of the car after he ran head on with another car. The narrator asks the mechanic if the car crash is a homework assignment. The mechanic explains that part of it is a homework assignment and that he had to make four human sacrifices and has to pick up a load of fat for the soap. The narrator ask the mechanic what Tyler is planning, and his answer sounds exactly the way Tyler would have said it if he was asked the question. “I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived…and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables”(141).The mechanic goes on saying young men and women are living in a world where they are chasing a false sense of reality by buying clothes and cars that they don’t need. He says that people work jobs that they hate just so they can buy what they don’t really need. “We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression” (141). The mechanic says that the only way to show people freedom is by enslaving them, and the way to show them courage is to frighten them. “The irony is that Fight Club, and later project Mayhem, reproduce the same effects of capitalism by creating the illusion of freedom through demands for self-regulation and self punishment” (Ta). The mechanic tells the narrator that they are headed to the medical waste incinerator to pick up the fat.
== Notes ==

*'''Corniche[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Corniche]''' (140) - a Rolls-Royce's coupé and convertible version of the Silver Shadow produced between 1971 and 1996.

*'''Napoleon[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon]''' (141) - King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine

*'''Rockefeller Center[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_center]''' (142) - a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22-acres between 48th and 51st Streets in New York

*'''Robin Hood[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_hood]''' (142) - a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny.

*'''Hepatitis bug[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis]''' (142) -a gastroenterological disease, featuring inflammation of the liver

== Study Questions ==

#What herb is used in making the soap?
#How much is the soap sold for?
#What does the mechanic say they need to look for at the end of the chapter?
#Where does the narrator get hurt in the crash?
#What legendary character does the mechanic compare himself to when stealing the fat?
#Who is the soap bought by?

== Works Cited ==
Ta, Lynn M. “Hurt So Good: Fight Club, Masculine Violence, and the Crisis of Capitalism.” ''The Journal of American Culture''. 29.3 (2006). 265-274.

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Trope

2006-10-16T15:45:08Z

Rmcpherson: added links to similie and irony;

A figure of speech. Childers and Hentzi say that “The major figures that are agreed upon as being tropes are [[metaphor]], [[simile]], metonymy, synecdoche, [[irony]], personification, and hyperbole, litotes and periphrasis are also sometimes called tropes”(309). A [[simile]] uses figurative speech in a way that compares two things using the words “like or as”. An example would be, The party was packed tight like a can of sardines. Cuddon stated that “...the most famous instance of such an interpolation was the ''Quem quaeritis'' (''q.V'') trope preceding the ''Introit'' on Easter Sunday”(222). Lucas says that “Some common descriptive tropes are portraits (word pictures) or descriptions of actions which somehow appeal to the senses of a reader” (Earthshine).

The idea of what trope is has been debated numerous times. Baldick states that “The theory of rhetoric has involved several disputed attempts to clarify the distinction between tropes (or figures of thought) and schemes (or figures of speech)” (264). It has been established that tropes change the meaning of words “by a turn’ of sense” (Baldick 264).

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[[Literary Terms]]

=== Works Cited ===
* Baldick, Chris. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
* Childers, Joseph and Gary Hentzi, ed. The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. New York: Columbia University, 1995.
* Cuddon, J.A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 4th ed. England: Penguin Books, 1998.
* Earthshine.org. Ed. Dr. Gerald R. Lucas. July 2005. Sept. 2006. <http://earthshine.org/glossary/7#lettert>
[[Category:Literary Terms]][[Category:World Literature]]

Trope

2006-09-18T02:12:30Z

Rmcpherson:

A figure of speech. Childers and Hentzi say that “The major figures that are agreed upon as being tropes are metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, personification, and hyperbole, litotes and periphrasis are also sometimes called tropes”(309). A simile uses figurative speech in a way that compares two things using the words “like or as”. An example would be, The party was packed tight like a can of sardines. Cuddon stated that “...the most famous instance of such an interpolation was the ''Quem quaeritis'' (''q.V'') trope preceding the ''Introit'' on Easter Sunday” (222). Lucas says that “Some common descriptive tropes are portraits (word pictures) or descriptions of actions which somehow appeal to the senses of a reader” (Earthshine).

The idea of what trope is has been debated numerous times. Baldick states that “The theory of rhetoric has involved several disputed attempts to clarify the distinction between tropes (or figures of thought) and schemes (or figures of speech)” (264). It has been established that tropes change the meaning of words “by a turn’ of sense” (Baldick 264).

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[[Literary Terms]]

=== Works Cited ===
* Baldick, Chris. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
* Childers, Joseph and Gary Hentzi, ed. The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. New York: Columbia University, 1995.
* Cuddon, J.A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 4th ed. England: Penguin Books, 1998.
* Earthshine.org. Ed. Dr. Gerald R. Lucas. July 2005. Sept. 2006. <http://earthshine.org/glossary/7#lettert>
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User:Rmcpherson

2006-09-13T15:34:43Z

Rmcpherson: introuced wiki syntax

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