Charles Palahniuk is an American author known for his transgressive and shocking fiction. He grew up in rural Washington and found inspiration for his writing from traumatic personal experiences like his parents' divorce and deaths. Though his early novels were rejected, Fight Club was published in 1996 and became a film, launching his career. Palahniuk's works often explore dark themes and push boundaries through controversial topics, but have earned him a devoted following for his unique style of storytelling.
Charles Palahniuk is an American author known for his transgressive works and darkly comic style. He grew up in rural Washington and was inspired to write after the death of his father. Palahniuk's early works were rejected by publishers due to their dark tones. His breakthrough came with the novel Fight Club, which was later adapted into a successful film. Palahniuk often draws from his own experiences with death and loss in his writing as a way to process trauma. While his works are not conventionally entertaining, Palahniuk believes that finding inspiration in misery through art can help people.
Charles Palahniuk is an American author known for his transgressive and shocking fiction. He grew up in Washington in humble beginnings and was inspired to write by his fifth grade teacher. Palahniuk attended the University of Oregon and worked as a journalist and diesel mechanic before fully devoting himself to writing fiction. His breakthrough novel was 1996's Fight Club, which brought him mainstream success. Palahniuk often draws from his own life experiences in his writing, including the deaths of his father and mother, which inspired the novels Lullaby and Damned respectively. Though his work is dark, Palahniuk finds inspiration in confronting misery and transforming personal wounds into art.
Charles Palahniuk is an American author known for his transgressive and shocking fiction. He drew from his difficult childhood, volunteering with the homeless and those in hospice, and membership in the subversive Cacophony Society to inform his darkly comedic novels. His breakthrough came with the publication of Fight Club in 1996. Later works like Lullaby and Damned were inspired by personal tragedies like the murder of his father. Palahniuk's unconventional style transformed his pain into critically acclaimed stories that have endured.
Kate Chopin used her writing to express her views on women's independence and sexuality in 19th century American society. Through short stories like "The Awakening" and "Desiree's Baby", she portrayed women's desires for freedom and control over their own lives and sexuality. However, her works were controversial at the time and condemned for their sexual openness. Chopin drew from her own experiences and sought to destroy barriers that restricted women in traditional society. Now she is celebrated as an early feminist writer ahead of her time.
Kate Chopin used her writing to express her views on women's independence and sexuality in 19th century American society. Through short stories like "The Awakening" and "Desiree's Baby", she portrayed women's desires for freedom and control over their own lives and sexuality. However, her works were controversial at the time and condemned for their sexual openness. Chopin drew from her own experiences and sought to destroy barriers that restricted women in traditional society. Now she is celebrated as an early feminist writer ahead of her time.
The document discusses Kate Chopin and her short stories and novel. It notes that many of her stories were published in Vogue magazine in the late 1800s, including "A Respectable Woman". Chopin's only novel The Awakening featured themes of adultery and mixed marriage that caused a scandal, leading Chopin to quit writing and she later died of a brain hemorrhage at a young age.
Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil in 1947 and had a tumultuous childhood and early adulthood, being committed to a mental institution by his parents and later arresting for subversive activities. He eventually found success as a songwriter and author. Some of his most famous books that have inspired millions include The Alchemist and Brida. His writing style promotes self-improvement and teaches life lessons through inspirational stories and quotes that compel readers to improve themselves and follow their dreams.
This document provides a summary of the poem "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath. It discusses the structure of the poem as a dramatic monologue in 28 tercets. It analyzes the title character Lady Lazarus as a female version of the biblical figure Lazarus, representing resurrection from the dead. The poem depicts the speaker performing public resurrections from simulated deaths for spectators, comparing the experience to that of a Jew in a Nazi concentration camp.
Charles Palahniuk is an American author known for his transgressive works and darkly comic style. He grew up in rural Washington and was inspired to write after the death of his father. Palahniuk's early works were rejected by publishers due to their dark tones. His breakthrough came with the novel Fight Club, which was later adapted into a successful film. Palahniuk often draws from his own experiences with death and loss in his writing as a way to process trauma. While his works are not conventionally entertaining, Palahniuk believes that finding inspiration in misery through art can help people.
Charles Palahniuk is an American author known for his transgressive and shocking fiction. He grew up in Washington in humble beginnings and was inspired to write by his fifth grade teacher. Palahniuk attended the University of Oregon and worked as a journalist and diesel mechanic before fully devoting himself to writing fiction. His breakthrough novel was 1996's Fight Club, which brought him mainstream success. Palahniuk often draws from his own life experiences in his writing, including the deaths of his father and mother, which inspired the novels Lullaby and Damned respectively. Though his work is dark, Palahniuk finds inspiration in confronting misery and transforming personal wounds into art.
Charles Palahniuk is an American author known for his transgressive and shocking fiction. He drew from his difficult childhood, volunteering with the homeless and those in hospice, and membership in the subversive Cacophony Society to inform his darkly comedic novels. His breakthrough came with the publication of Fight Club in 1996. Later works like Lullaby and Damned were inspired by personal tragedies like the murder of his father. Palahniuk's unconventional style transformed his pain into critically acclaimed stories that have endured.
Kate Chopin used her writing to express her views on women's independence and sexuality in 19th century American society. Through short stories like "The Awakening" and "Desiree's Baby", she portrayed women's desires for freedom and control over their own lives and sexuality. However, her works were controversial at the time and condemned for their sexual openness. Chopin drew from her own experiences and sought to destroy barriers that restricted women in traditional society. Now she is celebrated as an early feminist writer ahead of her time.
Kate Chopin used her writing to express her views on women's independence and sexuality in 19th century American society. Through short stories like "The Awakening" and "Desiree's Baby", she portrayed women's desires for freedom and control over their own lives and sexuality. However, her works were controversial at the time and condemned for their sexual openness. Chopin drew from her own experiences and sought to destroy barriers that restricted women in traditional society. Now she is celebrated as an early feminist writer ahead of her time.
The document discusses Kate Chopin and her short stories and novel. It notes that many of her stories were published in Vogue magazine in the late 1800s, including "A Respectable Woman". Chopin's only novel The Awakening featured themes of adultery and mixed marriage that caused a scandal, leading Chopin to quit writing and she later died of a brain hemorrhage at a young age.
Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil in 1947 and had a tumultuous childhood and early adulthood, being committed to a mental institution by his parents and later arresting for subversive activities. He eventually found success as a songwriter and author. Some of his most famous books that have inspired millions include The Alchemist and Brida. His writing style promotes self-improvement and teaches life lessons through inspirational stories and quotes that compel readers to improve themselves and follow their dreams.
This document provides a summary of the poem "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath. It discusses the structure of the poem as a dramatic monologue in 28 tercets. It analyzes the title character Lady Lazarus as a female version of the biblical figure Lazarus, representing resurrection from the dead. The poem depicts the speaker performing public resurrections from simulated deaths for spectators, comparing the experience to that of a Jew in a Nazi concentration camp.
Sylvia Plath's confessional poetry focused on intimate, taboo subjects like death, trauma, and depression from a first-person perspective that blurred the lines between Plath and the speaker. This style emerged in the 1950s with poets like Robert Lowell who shared their personal experiences. Plath's poems used lyrical craftsmanship to manipulate terrifying experiences like madness through poems alluding to her father's death and suicide attempts. While Plath felt one should control experiences through an informed mind, some critics argued poems like "Daddy" and "The Tour" revealed a need for complete control through their frantic pace and images.
Sylvia Plath wrote "A Secret" in 1962 after separating from her husband Ted Hughes due to his affair. The poem uses ambiguous imagery and shifting perspectives to represent Plath's struggle with the betrayal and her desire to conceal the "secret" of Hughes' infidelity. Throughout the poem, the narrator worries that the secret will be exposed and the consequences will destroy her, as represented by increasing unrest and violence in the imagery. By the end, the secret is revealed against the narrator's wishes, and she is left feeling weak and unable to cope with the fallout of the exposure.
Kate Chopin was an American author born in 1851 in St. Louis, Missouri. She is known for her novels and short stories that explored themes of women's desires, independence, and the subtle complexities of Creole culture. Some of her most famous works include the short stories "Desiree's Baby", "The Storm", and "A Pair of Silk Stockings", which depict women struggling with their identities within marriage and motherhood. Chopin was a pioneering female writer who brought greater representation and understanding of women's perspectives to American literature.
This document discusses and provides discussion questions about poems by Sylvia Plath and Ann Sexton. It analyzes Plath's poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus," examining themes of father/daughter relationships, the Holocaust, and resurrection. It also provides discussion points about Sexton's poems "Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman" about body changes and motherhood, and "Sylvia's Death" about Sexton's relationship with and views of Plath's suicide in comparison to Plath's poem.
The document provides background information on Kate Chopin and her short story "The Story of an Hour". It discusses that Chopin was born in 1850 in St. Louis and started writing later in life. The story, published in 1894, is about a woman named Louise Mallard who discovers her own identity upon believing her husband has died in an accident. However, the story takes an ironic turn when her husband returns, alive. The document outlines themes of the story like female self-discovery and identity.
Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author born in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro. As a teenager, he wanted to be a writer but his parents opposed this and had him committed to a mental hospital at age 17. After traveling throughout South and North America in the 1960s, he returned to Brazil and worked as a songwriter. His first book was published in 1982, and his most famous work, The Alchemist, has sold over 65 million copies worldwide in 80 languages. Paulo Coelho is considered one of the best-selling authors of all time.
Kate Chopin was a 19th century American author known for her short stories and novels that explored feminist themes. She was influenced by her upbringing in Louisiana and the strong women in her family. Many of her stories, like "The Story of an Hour" and "Désirée's Baby", focused on women's struggles for identity and independence in Southern society at that time. Though controversial then, she is now considered a pioneer for early feminist authors.
Module-3 American Poetry "Daddy" by Sylvia Plathjitugohil
Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" expresses the speaker's intense love and hatred for her father through surreal and violent imagery. The speaker addresses her father directly, calling him names like "ghastly statue" and comparing him to Hitler. She describes being oppressed and living in fear under his influence for many years. While partly autobiographical, the poem more broadly examines themes of female oppression and the victimization of war through its symbolic representation of the father figure. It allows the speaker to relieve neurotic emotions through creative expression.
The document summarizes and analyzes the first 20 lines of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy". It provides background on Plath's life experiences, including her father's death from illness when she was young. Each member of the group then analyzes 2 lines of the poem, describing Plath's metaphorical comparisons of her father to a black shoe and marble statue stretching across the United States, as well as her changing feelings towards him from praying for his return to being freed from his influence.
Sylvia Plath was a renowned American poet born in 1932 in Boston. She had a difficult childhood after her father died when she was young. Plath published poems during her time in college and later married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956. After having two children, her marriage ended in separation and she wrote her famous collection Ariel before committing suicide in 1963. The poem "Morning Song" depicts Plath expressing her intense love and responsibility for her newborn child as a mother.
Sylvia Plath endured a difficult life, experiencing the Great Depression, her father's death at a young age, and a miscarriage, all of which influenced her poetry. She had her first documented suicide attempt in college and took her own life in 1963. Plath's life experiences with mental illness, loss, and suicide are reflected in many of her poems that often depict themes of suffering, sickness, and death. Critics analyzed how Plath's life experiences were embodied in her poetic works.
Shannon Selin's book about Napoleon is criticized for being very boring and dull, putting readers to sleep. The writing style is described as sadly written and less interesting than Wikipedia entries on Napoleon, which provide more information on him and his relatives. The reviewer considers it one of the worst books they have read.
Paul’s oedipus complex in sons and loversAbdo Zejem
This document provides an overview of D.H. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers and analyzes the Oedipus complex of the main character Paul Morel. It first introduces Lawrence and gives a brief summary of Sons and Lovers. It then reviews Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex before analyzing the close relationship between Paul and his mother and their conflicts. It concludes that Paul failed to properly resolve his Oedipus complex due to unhealthy family dynamics and social conditions brought on by industrialization.
Ewrt 1 c class 14 post qhq the story of an hourjordanlachance
This document provides an agenda and background information for a class discussion on short stories by Kate Chopin and Gabriel García Márquez. The class will discuss Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and García Márquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It provides biographical details and historical context for the authors and analyzes elements like point of view and setting in Chopin's story. The document concludes with potential discussion questions.
The document provides a detailed summary and analysis of Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour". It discusses the characters of Louise Mallard and her husband Brently, the themes of marriage vs. freedom and women's liberation, and symbols like spring. The story explores Louise's complex feelings of both grief and relief upon hearing of her husband's death, as it represents a chance at independence from the social norms of marriage. Her reaction highlights the suppression of women by society and marriage at the time.
David Herbert Lawrence was a British writer born in 1885 in Eastwood, England. Some of his notable works include the novels Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Sons and Lovers, published in 1913, is semi-autobiographical and focuses on the protagonist Paul Morel and his complex relationship with his mother. It explores themes of social class differences and Freudian psychoanalysis. The story follows Paul's love interests in Miriam and Clara and how he struggles with his mother's suffocating control over him. Lawrence drew from his own upbringing and relationships in the former mining community of Eastwood as inspiration for the novel.
Sylvia Plath was an American poet born in 1932 in Boston. She struggled with mental illness including depression from a young age. Plath attempted suicide in her youth and received electroshock therapy. She published her only novel, The Bell Jar, which drew from her experiences with mental illness. Plath married fellow poet Ted Hughes, but he left her in 1962 for another woman, plunging Plath into a deep depression from which she did not recover. She took her own life in 1963 shortly after publishing The Bell Jar under a pseudonym. Many of her poems, including those in her collection Ariel, dealt with themes of depression, death, and her relationship with her father.
Kate Chopin was a controversial writer in the late 1800s who wrote about women's rights and feminism. Her novel The Awakening was widely criticized for its themes of a woman rejecting traditional roles but is now recognized as an important early feminist work. Chopin used powerful and surprising endings in her stories to send messages about women's place in society and to provoke thought in her readers. Her works provided a representation of women's experiences during the time period in which she wrote.
Charles Palahniuk is an American author known for his transgressive and shocking fiction. He drew from his difficult childhood, volunteering with the homeless and those in hospice, and membership in the Cacophony Society to inform his darkly comedic novels. His most famous work, Fight Club, was expanded from a short story and became a film, bringing him mainstream success. Palahniuk continued writing novels that dealt with tragedy in his own life, finding catharsis through transforming his pain into creative works. He believes that inspiration can be found in misery and adversity.
1. Chuck Palahniuk is an American novelist known for his transgressive and disturbing fiction. Some of his most famous works include Fight Club, Haunted, and Choke.
2. Palahniuk draws from his own life experiences, such as volunteering at homeless shelters, for his writing. He targets his books toward younger adult males who feel like outsiders.
3. Palahniuk's books combine realistic fiction with satire. They depict ordinary characters in extraordinary situations to critique and question societal norms.
The document provides background information on American author Flannery O'Connor. It discusses her upbringing in Georgia, her education, her writing career, and her battle with lupus. It summarizes two of her short stories, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People", and notes that O'Connor is regarded as a master of the short story form despite her small body of work consisting of only 31 stories and 2 novels. She wrote about spiritual themes shaped by her Catholic upbringing in the Protestant South and continued writing up until her death from lupus at age 39.
Sylvia Plath's confessional poetry focused on intimate, taboo subjects like death, trauma, and depression from a first-person perspective that blurred the lines between Plath and the speaker. This style emerged in the 1950s with poets like Robert Lowell who shared their personal experiences. Plath's poems used lyrical craftsmanship to manipulate terrifying experiences like madness through poems alluding to her father's death and suicide attempts. While Plath felt one should control experiences through an informed mind, some critics argued poems like "Daddy" and "The Tour" revealed a need for complete control through their frantic pace and images.
Sylvia Plath wrote "A Secret" in 1962 after separating from her husband Ted Hughes due to his affair. The poem uses ambiguous imagery and shifting perspectives to represent Plath's struggle with the betrayal and her desire to conceal the "secret" of Hughes' infidelity. Throughout the poem, the narrator worries that the secret will be exposed and the consequences will destroy her, as represented by increasing unrest and violence in the imagery. By the end, the secret is revealed against the narrator's wishes, and she is left feeling weak and unable to cope with the fallout of the exposure.
Kate Chopin was an American author born in 1851 in St. Louis, Missouri. She is known for her novels and short stories that explored themes of women's desires, independence, and the subtle complexities of Creole culture. Some of her most famous works include the short stories "Desiree's Baby", "The Storm", and "A Pair of Silk Stockings", which depict women struggling with their identities within marriage and motherhood. Chopin was a pioneering female writer who brought greater representation and understanding of women's perspectives to American literature.
This document discusses and provides discussion questions about poems by Sylvia Plath and Ann Sexton. It analyzes Plath's poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus," examining themes of father/daughter relationships, the Holocaust, and resurrection. It also provides discussion points about Sexton's poems "Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman" about body changes and motherhood, and "Sylvia's Death" about Sexton's relationship with and views of Plath's suicide in comparison to Plath's poem.
The document provides background information on Kate Chopin and her short story "The Story of an Hour". It discusses that Chopin was born in 1850 in St. Louis and started writing later in life. The story, published in 1894, is about a woman named Louise Mallard who discovers her own identity upon believing her husband has died in an accident. However, the story takes an ironic turn when her husband returns, alive. The document outlines themes of the story like female self-discovery and identity.
Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author born in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro. As a teenager, he wanted to be a writer but his parents opposed this and had him committed to a mental hospital at age 17. After traveling throughout South and North America in the 1960s, he returned to Brazil and worked as a songwriter. His first book was published in 1982, and his most famous work, The Alchemist, has sold over 65 million copies worldwide in 80 languages. Paulo Coelho is considered one of the best-selling authors of all time.
Kate Chopin was a 19th century American author known for her short stories and novels that explored feminist themes. She was influenced by her upbringing in Louisiana and the strong women in her family. Many of her stories, like "The Story of an Hour" and "Désirée's Baby", focused on women's struggles for identity and independence in Southern society at that time. Though controversial then, she is now considered a pioneer for early feminist authors.
Module-3 American Poetry "Daddy" by Sylvia Plathjitugohil
Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" expresses the speaker's intense love and hatred for her father through surreal and violent imagery. The speaker addresses her father directly, calling him names like "ghastly statue" and comparing him to Hitler. She describes being oppressed and living in fear under his influence for many years. While partly autobiographical, the poem more broadly examines themes of female oppression and the victimization of war through its symbolic representation of the father figure. It allows the speaker to relieve neurotic emotions through creative expression.
The document summarizes and analyzes the first 20 lines of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy". It provides background on Plath's life experiences, including her father's death from illness when she was young. Each member of the group then analyzes 2 lines of the poem, describing Plath's metaphorical comparisons of her father to a black shoe and marble statue stretching across the United States, as well as her changing feelings towards him from praying for his return to being freed from his influence.
Sylvia Plath was a renowned American poet born in 1932 in Boston. She had a difficult childhood after her father died when she was young. Plath published poems during her time in college and later married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956. After having two children, her marriage ended in separation and she wrote her famous collection Ariel before committing suicide in 1963. The poem "Morning Song" depicts Plath expressing her intense love and responsibility for her newborn child as a mother.
Sylvia Plath endured a difficult life, experiencing the Great Depression, her father's death at a young age, and a miscarriage, all of which influenced her poetry. She had her first documented suicide attempt in college and took her own life in 1963. Plath's life experiences with mental illness, loss, and suicide are reflected in many of her poems that often depict themes of suffering, sickness, and death. Critics analyzed how Plath's life experiences were embodied in her poetic works.
Shannon Selin's book about Napoleon is criticized for being very boring and dull, putting readers to sleep. The writing style is described as sadly written and less interesting than Wikipedia entries on Napoleon, which provide more information on him and his relatives. The reviewer considers it one of the worst books they have read.
Paul’s oedipus complex in sons and loversAbdo Zejem
This document provides an overview of D.H. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers and analyzes the Oedipus complex of the main character Paul Morel. It first introduces Lawrence and gives a brief summary of Sons and Lovers. It then reviews Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex before analyzing the close relationship between Paul and his mother and their conflicts. It concludes that Paul failed to properly resolve his Oedipus complex due to unhealthy family dynamics and social conditions brought on by industrialization.
Ewrt 1 c class 14 post qhq the story of an hourjordanlachance
This document provides an agenda and background information for a class discussion on short stories by Kate Chopin and Gabriel García Márquez. The class will discuss Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and García Márquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It provides biographical details and historical context for the authors and analyzes elements like point of view and setting in Chopin's story. The document concludes with potential discussion questions.
The document provides a detailed summary and analysis of Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour". It discusses the characters of Louise Mallard and her husband Brently, the themes of marriage vs. freedom and women's liberation, and symbols like spring. The story explores Louise's complex feelings of both grief and relief upon hearing of her husband's death, as it represents a chance at independence from the social norms of marriage. Her reaction highlights the suppression of women by society and marriage at the time.
David Herbert Lawrence was a British writer born in 1885 in Eastwood, England. Some of his notable works include the novels Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Sons and Lovers, published in 1913, is semi-autobiographical and focuses on the protagonist Paul Morel and his complex relationship with his mother. It explores themes of social class differences and Freudian psychoanalysis. The story follows Paul's love interests in Miriam and Clara and how he struggles with his mother's suffocating control over him. Lawrence drew from his own upbringing and relationships in the former mining community of Eastwood as inspiration for the novel.
Sylvia Plath was an American poet born in 1932 in Boston. She struggled with mental illness including depression from a young age. Plath attempted suicide in her youth and received electroshock therapy. She published her only novel, The Bell Jar, which drew from her experiences with mental illness. Plath married fellow poet Ted Hughes, but he left her in 1962 for another woman, plunging Plath into a deep depression from which she did not recover. She took her own life in 1963 shortly after publishing The Bell Jar under a pseudonym. Many of her poems, including those in her collection Ariel, dealt with themes of depression, death, and her relationship with her father.
Kate Chopin was a controversial writer in the late 1800s who wrote about women's rights and feminism. Her novel The Awakening was widely criticized for its themes of a woman rejecting traditional roles but is now recognized as an important early feminist work. Chopin used powerful and surprising endings in her stories to send messages about women's place in society and to provoke thought in her readers. Her works provided a representation of women's experiences during the time period in which she wrote.
Charles Palahniuk is an American author known for his transgressive and shocking fiction. He drew from his difficult childhood, volunteering with the homeless and those in hospice, and membership in the Cacophony Society to inform his darkly comedic novels. His most famous work, Fight Club, was expanded from a short story and became a film, bringing him mainstream success. Palahniuk continued writing novels that dealt with tragedy in his own life, finding catharsis through transforming his pain into creative works. He believes that inspiration can be found in misery and adversity.
1. Chuck Palahniuk is an American novelist known for his transgressive and disturbing fiction. Some of his most famous works include Fight Club, Haunted, and Choke.
2. Palahniuk draws from his own life experiences, such as volunteering at homeless shelters, for his writing. He targets his books toward younger adult males who feel like outsiders.
3. Palahniuk's books combine realistic fiction with satire. They depict ordinary characters in extraordinary situations to critique and question societal norms.
The document provides background information on American author Flannery O'Connor. It discusses her upbringing in Georgia, her education, her writing career, and her battle with lupus. It summarizes two of her short stories, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People", and notes that O'Connor is regarded as a master of the short story form despite her small body of work consisting of only 31 stories and 2 novels. She wrote about spiritual themes shaped by her Catholic upbringing in the Protestant South and continued writing up until her death from lupus at age 39.
This document provides biographical information about American novelist Charles Palahniuk, known for his novels Fight Club and Choke. It gives his date and place of birth, occupation, notable works, awards received and spouses. It also includes a brief summary of his novel Choke, which follows the life of Victor Mancini, a man who cons people by intentionally choking in restaurants so they will save him and send him money.
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This document provides information about the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. It includes a list of group members, biographical information about Salinger, plot summaries, character descriptions, settings, themes such as alienation and phoniness, and influences on the novel. The document analyzes various aspects of the novel in detail through multiple sections and paragraphs.
Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Obsolete" tells the story of a community that decides to commit mass suicide after learning of an afterlife on Venus. The government orders everyone to kill themselves so they can go to heaven rather than remain on Earth. The main character Eve disapproves of this plan. Palahniuk's "Fight Club" follows an insomniac man who creates an alternate personality and starts an underground fighting club as a way to rebel against consumerism. Men join to reject masculine ideals portrayed in media and find brief liberation through violence. Palahniuk's style uses repetition to subvert expectations and portray how society and media influence identity.
This document provides a summary of a student paper analyzing Junot Díaz's novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The paper discusses how several characters in the novel, including the protagonist Oscar Wao, try to escape their problems through reading and writing. However, the characters ultimately cannot escape their family histories and pasts. The document also discusses how the author and poet Emily Dickinson, as well as the author themselves, have used reading as a temporary escape from reality. It concludes that no matter how hard people try, they cannot truly escape their family or cultural backgrounds.
This document provides biographical information about author Chuck Palahniuk and summarizes his novel "Survivor". It notes that Palahniuk was born in 1962 in Washington, and that "Survivor" tells the story of the last surviving member of a cult recalling events on a crashing plane. The excerpt examines society's focus on attention and fame surrounding death.
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.
2. “STRANGER THAN FICTION”
People prefer to live their lives rightly. They
try to make everything seem normal.
But the man this presentation is devoted to
clearly isn`t one of them.
In his life truth is sometimes stranger than
fiction. His biography is far from perfect,
albeit it is interesting. It is hard to tell exactly
where reality ends and the storytelling
begins.
He came from the humble beginnings and
made people live vicariously through his
stories.
3. This is the story
about Charles Michael Palahniuk,
the man
who transformed his wounds
into his art.
4. SOME FACTS
Born February 21, 1962, Charles spent his early childhood living out of a
mobile home in Burbank, Washington.
His paternal grandfather was Ukrainian and immigrated to New York from
Canada in 1907.
His parents, Carol and Fred Palahniuk, separated and divorced when he
was fourteen.
Chuck and his siblings spent much of their time on their maternal
grandparent’s cattle ranch.
In 1980 Charles graduated from Columbia High School in Burbank.
The catalyst for his first writing was his fifth grade teacher Mr. Olsen.
5. “Chuck, you do this really well.
And this is much better than
setting fires, so keep it up.”
Mr. Olsen, 5th grade teacher
6. journalist After high school, Chuck attended the University of
Oregon, graduating with a BA in journalism in 1986. He
& entered the workforce as a journalist for a local Portland
newspaper, but soon grew tired of the job.
diesel He then gained employment as a diesel mechanic,
spending his days repairing trucks and writing technical
mechanic manuals.
It was during this time that Palahniuk performed
volunteer work for a homeless shelter; later, he also
volunteered at a hospice as an escort; he provided
volunteer transportation for terminally ill people and brought
them to support group meetings.
& He also became a member of the notorious
rebel Cacophony Society. The Cacophony Society was
dedicated to experiencing things outside of the
mainstream and performing large-scale pranks in public
places.
7. Palahniuk began writing
fiction in his mid-thirties.
At the time he was
attending workshops for
writers to meet new
friends. Tom Spanbauer,
the host, largely inspired
Palahniuk's minimalistic
writing style.
8. Chuck’s first attempt at a novel, If You Lived Here, You’d be Home Already
was rejected across the board (although parts were later recycled for use
in Fight Club.) Unfazed, Chuck dabbled with even darker material, writing a
manuscript called Manifesto, which would go on to become Invisible
Monsters. As with If You Lived Here, agents just couldn't embrace the dark
tone in Chuck's work, and while his voice as a writer got some recognition,
nobody was willing to take a chance on him.
9. “Our real discoveries
come from chaos, from
going to the place that
looks wrong and stupid
and foolish.”
(Invisible Monsters)
10. That all changed when Chuck "gave up" on
the mainstream and decided to make his
next manuscript even darker. The experience of
working in terminally ill hospice and becoming
a member of the Cacophony Society was the
basis.
Fight Club came into existence.
After initially publishing it as a short
story (which would become chapter 6 of the
novel) in the 1995 compilation, Pursuit of
Happiness, Palahniuk expanded it into a
full novel, which—contrary to his
expectations—the publisher was willing to
publish.
But it wasn't until 20th Century Fox took notice
that Chuck nabbed an agent in Edward Hibbert
(best known as Gil Chesterton, the food critic
on Frasier,) who would go on to broker the
deal for Fight Club the movie.
11. Due to this success, Chuck was given free reign, creatively.
12. Chuck’s work has always been
infused with personal
experience, and his next
novel, Lullaby, was no
exception. Chuck credits
writing Lullaby with helping
him cope with the tragic death
of his father.
In the year 1999 Chuck`s father, Fred Palahniuk, had
started dating a woman named Donna Fontaine. He
met her trough a personal ad soon after her former
boyfriend, Dale Shackleford, had been imprisoned for
sexual abuse. Shackleford had vowed to kill Fontaine
as soon as he was released from prison. After his
release, Shackleford followed Fontaine and the senior
Palahniuk to Fontaine's home after they had gone out
for a date. Shackleford then shot them both and
dragged their bodies into Fontaine's cabin home,
which he then set afire. That man was found guilty
and sentenced to death in 2001.
13. “That's why I write,
because life never
works except in
retrospect. You can't
control life, at least you
can control your
version.”
(Stranger Than Fiction)
14. Another book, based on personal
experience, was released in 2011.
Chuck wrote Damned while his
mother was dying of cancer.
She was the prototype of the main character, 13-year-old
girl Madison who is in Hell. “On her medication my
mother became much more herself as a child; a child I
never would have known. I was playing in effect the role
of parent. It was a terrible time and perhaps that's why
Madison's such a glib person. She's covering up horrible
circumstances and pain”-says Chuck.
He tried to express somehow his grief at having then lost
both of his parents. That would not make a very
entertaining or particularly funny book, that`s why he
inverted the situation and made it this very plucky dead
child, who could mourn her parents while they were still
on Earth – but still she could miss them.
15. “We all die. The goal isn't to live
forever, the goal is to create
something that will.”
(Diary)
Charles Palahniuk
managed to find his
inspiration in his
misery. The art
cured him. And I
believe that his way
can help anybody.
Do you?
16. WEBLIOGRAPHY
• http://chuckpalahniuk.net/author/bio
• http://www.list.co.uk/article/1902-american-literature/
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/04/chuck-palahniuk-fight-
club-interview
• http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2546.Chuck_Palahniuk?page
=3
• http://www.notable-quotes.com/p/palahniuk_chuck.html
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/
• http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/p/chuck
_palahniuk/index.html
• http://www.stirrings-still.org/ss22.pdf
Made by Maria Alexandrova, RIMO-201