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You don't say anything because fight club exists only in the hours between when fight club starts and when fight club ends. You saw the kid who works in the copy center, a month ago you saw this kid who can't remember to three-hole-punch an order or put colored slip sheets between the copy packets, but this kid was a god for ten minutes when you saw him kick the air out of an account representative twice his size then land on the man and pound him limp until the kid had to stop. That's the third rule in fight club, when someone says stop, or goes limp, even if he's just faking it, the fight is over. Every time you see this kid, you can't tell him what a great fight he had.

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In Fight Club , the narrator is intent on reclaiming the male body from the aesthetic elevation it e ndured during these ‘high concept’ cinematic years and the spectacle of the well-toned physique is subject to scrutiny. For aesthetic reasons, Fincher’s interpretation of Palahniuk’s corporeal critique of ornamented masculinity is not only more accessible but more straightforward. Even as the narrator seeks to reconfigure his own perceptions surrounding masculinity, he never makes explicit his own corporeal anxieties – at least not before he becomes Tyler. In both the novel and the film, the ornamented male body is disparaged for its completeness and alignment with a culture obsessed with perfection and reproduction. Although Palahniuk devotes very little description to the narrator’s physicality, Fincher’s casting of Edward Norton – not immediately renowned for his hulking physique – as one half of the narrator’s consciousness and Brad Pitt as the other appears to establish a facile opposition that simultaneously subverts and reinforces the corporeal anxieties extant in the 1990s. If the narrator is intent on deconstructing himself and unsubscribing to the unreality of corporeal perfection, raw sexuality and constructed (and misplaced) affect, then why does he romanticize his alter ego to “look how [he] wants to look and fucks how [he] wants to fuck”? ( Fight Club

57 Freedom as a freedom of trade, unaffected by “coercion of a man by his fellow men” (Friedman 15), is conceptualized as an ideology which justifies inequality and depends on exploitation. The introduction of guns into Fight Club occurs as a pivotal moment in the story, which highlights how this specific conceptualization of freedom paradoxically depends on oppression. “It was so heavy for something so small,” the narrator describes the gun Tyler shows him, “as if a giant thing like a mountain or a sun were collapsed and melted down to make this” (122). Tyler views the gun as a powerful extension of the masculine body and lectures how “the barrel of the gun focuses the exploding power and the rocketing slug like a missile out of a silo, like our jism, in one direction” (122). The gun’s ability to consolidate power in physical form amplifies the novel’s critique of neoliberal freedom as a construct which allows a small elite to exercise power over exploited workers. “Tyler didn’t care if other people got hurt or not,” the narrator realizes, “The goal was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history” (122). The first time the narrator actually uses the gun occurs when he threatens an all-night-store clerk and forces him to talk about his failed dreams. “I know who you are,” the narrator tells the clerk after the clerk has told him that he wants to be a vet, “I know where you live. I’m keeping your license, and I’m going to check on you, mister Raymond K. Hessel. In three months, and then in six months and then in a year, and if you aren’t back in school on your way to being a veterinarian, you will be dead” (154). This scene reveals the sharp contrast between freedom as an ideology of unlimited power and its practical limitations; not only does the narrator ignore the social and financial

As a result of this decision, more bifurcations branched out in chapter 17 and 24. In chapter 17, Tyler demands more young men to join them. To do so, only resilient men are chosen (Palahniuk, p. 129). These men are labelled as space monkeys because according to Tyler, they are the people who act according to the instructions with no question asked: “...do the little job you’re trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don’t understand any of it, and then you just die,” (Palahniuk, p. 12). This is alluded to the monkeys and apes that were sent into space by NASA as test subjects before sending humans. Since Project Mayhem is Tyler’s first attempt to construct anarchy, the members are considered as test subjects as well, akin to the pawns in chess game.

O’Connor’s poetics, the redemption that comes because of violence in the text is what brings about this change. For Shannon, her self-mutilation catalyzes her connection with Brandy, and this relationship is the true objective of her journey. After Shannon mutilates herself, she befriends Brandy Alexander, and is one step closer to achieving redemption through human connection. Initially, Shannon values Brandy for the attention she gives her. When everyone “stopped looking” (262) at her after her accident, Brandy pays attention. Though Shannon first attaches herself to Brandy for superficial reasons, Brandy is instrumental in Shannon’s progress toward redemption. After they have met, Shannon grabs a notepad from the speech therapist’s desk and writes, “save me . . . please” (280, emphasis original). In the same way that the narrator in Fight Club appeals to Tyler to save him from his consumer-driven lifestyle, so Shannon appeals to Brandy. When Shannon tells her about the accident, omitting the detail that the gunshot is self-inflicted, Brandy responds, “You can’t base your life on the past or the present. . . . You have to tell me about your future . . . when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trash can . . . then we’ll figure out who you’re going to be” (282-83). Brandy’s attempt to liberate Shannon from her past self brings Shannon closer to redemption because she is finally moving away from the societal structures that cause her narcissism. However, Shannon can only be fully redeemed through loving another person, a feat which she has not yet accomplished.

Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dalam kaitannya dengan penggunaan deskripsi yang jelas dan sistematis tentang fenomena yang sedang dipelajari. Penulis menggunakan Psikoanalisis sebagai teori utama dari Carl G. Jung dan New Criticism sebagai teori pendukung. Metode deskriptif dalam analisis tekstual diterapkan dalam penelitian ini untuk menganalisis karakterisasi karakter utama antara dua karya sastra. Pertama, penulis mengumpulkan data terlebih dahulu dengan cara membaca cerita Shatterday dan Fight Club. Kedua, tandai kutipan yang terkait dengan pernyataan masalah. Analisis dilanjutkan dengan mengidentifikasi kepribadian dan bayangan yang diterapkan oleh karakter dalam cerita.

Every bar I walk into, every fucking bar, I see beat-up guys. Every If you can wake up in a different place. If you can wake up in a different time. Why can't you wake up as a different person? Every bar you go into, punchedout guys want to buy you a beer. And no, sir, they've never met this Tyler Durden. And they wink. They've never heard the name before. Sir. I ask about fight club. Is there a fight club around here, tonight? No, sir. The second rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club. The punched-out guys at the bar shake their heads. Never heard of it. Sir. But you might find this fight club of yours in Seattle, sir. You wake up at Meigs Field and call Marla to see what's happening on Paper Street. Marla says now all the space monkeys are shaving their heads. Their electric razor gets hot and now the whole house smells like singed hair. The space monkeys are using lye to burn off their

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If you share a pitch with another club or use one at the local community centre, this is your most accessible source of new members. When others (schools, other players, parents) are using the same pitch as your club, they can be targeted as potential new players, coaches or volunteers. Promotion at the club, pitch or local community/leisure centre can be done at minimal or no cost and may target the audience that you have selected. Using notice boards or leaving flyers at the reception is an ideal way to post club information informing members of training times and upcoming events, as well as inviting new members to take part. Ensure that there is a contact name and number for anyone who may be interested in your activities. The same can also be done at local schools or youth groups that may have juniors that you can target.

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Oh I see. So that was the point. After the break, Chuck saw that we five were still the only people in the bar, and the rain was still hammering away. “You two are the whole audience; you want us to play or you want to talk?” We wanted to talk, and so we continued for another 45 minutes. It was really great for us both. Chuck was a very kind man.

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