Elements of Fiction for Fight Club

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Elements of Fiction: Plot: Chapter 1: * The book begins with a weird friendship of Tyler Durden’s split personality. Tyler Durden 2, has a gun in his mouth by Tyler Durden 1. They talk about guns, explosives, and destruction. * They're on the top floor of a building, and the Mischief Committee of Project Mayhem is below, pushing desks and throwing filing cabinets out of windows. * The Parker Morris building will be destroyed, with Tyler inside it. * Fight Club then takes us into a flashback to build up to this event. Chapter 2: * Our narrator (Tyler 2) is in a church basement support group for testicular cancer and is being hugged by a man named Bob. * He doesn’t really have testicular cancer though. * Tyler Durden has insomnia and even though he doesn’t have all these diseases and cancer, he feels lost inside and cries to people which make him feel better and he can actually sleep. * Then there is a problem, a girl shows up to the testicular cancer group. * Her name is Marla. * Our narrator can’t cry now because Marla is at every support group he is and he knows she is a tourist just like him. * He also can’t sleep anymore knowing she is at all of these support groups and imagines him telling her off. Chapter 3: * Tyler 2 (narrator) tells us how he met Tyler 1 on a nude beach and what he does for a living like splices in pornography into children’s movies. * This is also where he talks about single serving friends because he travels around the nation for his job. * His job is to decide if initiating a vehicle recall is worth it. Chapter 4: * When Tyler 2 is in the brain support group he found out that Chloe died. * He then imagines what death is like but he can’t because Marla is there. * He tells Marla that she doesn’t belong there and she’s not dying and she tells him neither is he.

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