Shannon Looks like a Teacher

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.” At the end of the fight nothing mattered because they were not fighting over anything specific, they were just fighting to fight. The concept about nihilism ties into this phrase because it means nothing matters. To Tyler nothing matters, he brings these men together to fight; but what are they fighting about? These men all come to fight club to fight about something, but they really fight just to get their anger out. But then Tyler always says that he always wants to destroy everything beautiful, burn the Amazon forests and pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up the ozone. Tyler wants to destroy the beautiful things in life. For example in the book he destroys many things, such as buildings. The beauty in buildings is, in my opinion, the structure of them and what goes on in them during the day. These buildings being burned are the buildings of wealth; their business makes a lot of money. But if nothing matters than why do they want to destroy everything?

While reading this book i really liked when Chuck Palahniuk brings up insomnia. For example i high lighted "...i come dragging in with every muscle bruised inside and out, but my heart's still racing and my thoughts are a tornado in my head. This is insomnia." Personally i thought this line was very interesting because he has insomnia, and he cant sleep ever. The only way he can sleep is making himself depressed. He does this by going to meetings for the ill or attending fight club. At night time all he does is thinks, he can't get any rest because of this insomnia. In this book he always is confused if he is sleeping or not, he thinks that he could be dreaming or it could be reality. I just enjoyed reading this because even sometimes i can't sleep, or at other times I think I am sleeping but i am really not.