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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