Weekly Review #1

Chapter 1-5

Why does the book fight club start out so erratic, why does it rotate from many different places and introduces many characters very quickly in the first 5 chapters. The narrator didn’t stick to one story he bombarded you with a ton of information and does go in much detail. The reason I think the author does this is to show the fact the narrator in confused and has an erratic personality. The author is trying to show how fast paced and how unconnected the narrators thoughts are. This random way the first few chapters was written is a way to show that the narrator is a bit mentally unstable. The book starts out with Tyler having a gun to the narrators head, and then quickly jumps to the description of the support groups this shows that the narrator has a wondering mind. He talks about how he can only sleep when he cries this can show he can become dependent on certain things. It seems to start out this way to add some context to what’s going it just runs through the events very quickly. If you know the story of fight club you can come to the conclusion that I did which is that the narrator has a mental illness and a way the author was trying to show this through rapid and random thought process. The narrator uses a lot and asks for more sleeping pills, is addicted to going to support group meetings, saying he want the plane hes flying in to crash, these are all references to his mental instability.