Today we got our test back from the poetry unit. Mr. Laz also reminded people to make food for the potluck or bring money for pizza. We also discussed Fight Club. The main character likes to write haikus in order to deal with stress and the world around him. The nature haikus are also similar to Henry Vaughan's poem Man and they deal with entropy (order always moves towards chaos). The capitalization on pages 63 and 64 is used to bring attention to what the character is saying and to show his emotion, how he is angry that no one is noticing how "Zen" he is. We also discussed how it is another amazing coincidence that the job that Tyler found for him only requires black pants and a white shirt. We also discussed seamlessness vs. disorder because of the relationship between Marla and Tyler. Their new relationship is affecting the seamlessness of the main character's life.
Keep reading the next 6 chapters.
--Laura C.
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It's difficult to figure out why the haikus are in there. I can't really figure out their significance. Help!
Another thing I enjoyed discussing was the scene where Tyler is getting beat up by his boss. Tyler keeps egging his boss on and Mr. Laz pointed out that for the first time in the book, what Tyler says isn't put in quotes. This was a very interesting point because the author treads a thin line of what's actually happening vs. what's happening in the narrator's head. It will be interesting to see how the author uses this technique in the rest of the book and if there's any reason for doing it in that particular part of the book.
-Dan M.
I also wanted to take a second to reflect on the lecture we had at the very beginning of Fight Club. Mr. Lazarow seemed to be echoing Tyler's point during the beginning of Project Mayhem. The main point, to me, was that right now, you are not your own individual. You're just another member of society until you do something to change that. You need to make yourself a part of history. Although it seems like a strange and depressing scene in the book, it's actually an inspirational concept.
-Dan M. again, sorry
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