Monday, November 18, 2013


My group and I chose to read the book Flight Club this book is about a guy who just can’t find himself in the real world. He has spent many sleepless nights, according to the narrator he has insomnia, he says he doesn’t know if he’s awake or asleep. The narrator wants something to make him go to sleep, but the doctor doesn’t want to give him anything for the insomnia the doctor actually suggests to go to support groups. There although he is not severely ill he feels like he belongs there because everyone listens to him and his problems after that he is able to sleep. In these groups he meets Marla and he can’t cry and can’t sleep. So he joins the fight club. Long story short the narrator and Tyler Durden is the same guy, Project Mayhem, the dead of Bob, blowing up buildings was the side of the narrator that was scared to come out, but without knowing he came out and his name was Tyler Durden. In my group we wanted to touch base with some past concepts of the class for example we talk about Post Modernism how it ties to the support groups that the narrator went to. Those support groups where irrational and unscientific because the narrator wasn’t sick he just liked the attention and felt good hearing the diseases that other people had and he liked when people herd his problems, he also liked the fact that he could cry freely without the fear of being judged. We talked about consumerism and media, how for example Tyler was alter ego of the narrator, which is why he did the things, he did. We talked about simulacra which he said that with insomnia nothing is real its just a copy of a copy. Also, we talked about Risk Management related to his job, how he would forget when he scanned things in the printer cause he was so tired, at first he was scared to lose his job he would do everything his boss told him to do. Lastly we talked about Feminism, which was my slide. How Marla is related to feminism in the way that she did what she wanted to do, she didn’t need anyone she will feed herself by stealing food from her dead neighbors she would steal clothes and sell them, that is how she got she got money. I talked about how she is related to feminism because she will always get what she wants; she used sex to get the things she wanted. Marla talked about having Tylers babies and abort them, while she thought she over dosed on pills she implied that she couldn’t fall asleep and that she needed to stay up and by that she was talking about sex. With this slide I ask the classmates to give examples of feminism related to Marla or examples over all about feminism. I also edited some of my groups’ slides; I contributed on deciding that the class should be divided into two and start a debate. I also wanted to add a slide about what Tyler’s acid kiss meant and why he did it. I was going to ask my classmates why they though Tyler did that. I though it was because it was a way of control of the other people kind of like their master. I took the slide away just because of time issue, but it was discusses with my group members.

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