PowerPoint presentation about Fight Club: -Author -Plot and structure -Characters -Quotes -Themes

1. By Chuck Palahniuk

2. Chuck Palahniuk
Novels:
 Fight Club (1996)
 Invisible Monsters (1999)
 Survivor (1999)
 Choke (2001)
 Lullaby (2002)
 Haunted (2005)
 Rant (2007)
 Damned (2011)
Born in 1962 in Pasco,Washington.

3. Fight Club - Plot
▪ 1996 novel which follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist
struggling with insomnia.
Inspired by his doctor's exasperated 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 namedTyler Durden and
establishes an underground fighting club as
radical psychotherapy.

4. Characters
 Narrator
He is the nameless insomniac protagonist
of the book and a co-creator of Fight
Club, along with Tyler Durden.
He attends support groups for
individuals struggling with terminal
diseases, though he is physically
healthy.
The Narrator later learns that he andTyler are actually
the same person.

5. Characters
Tyler Durden
Co-creator of Fight Club, Tyler is the
charismatic and vicious leader of Fight
Club who eventually starts Project
Mayhem.
He starts out as the Narrator's friend
but becomes the main antagonist.

6. Characters
 Marla Singer
A young woman who the Narrator encounters at
the support groups.
She begins a relationship withTyler, which upsets
the Narrator.

7. Characters
 Big Bob
A middle-aged former steroid
abuser who the Narrator
meets at a testicular cancer
survivor support group.
 Space Monkeys
The term the Narrator uses to
describe the anonymous members
of Project Mayhem.

8. “You are not special. You are
not a beautiful or unique
snowflake. You're the same
decaying organic matter as
everyone else, and we are all
part of the same compost pile.”
Fight Club

9. Themes
Emasculation
Chaos
Violence
Consumer Culture
Absent Father figures

10. Thank you for the attention.
Chiara Costumati