Fight Club and the Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Fight Club and the Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Fight club is an American drama film produced in 1999 following a novel publication of the same in 1996 by Chuck Palahniuk. This drama film incorporates a number or renowned actors, producers and directors. Norton is the Protagonist in the drama play. Norton is an everyman discontented with his white-collar job. He quits his job and forms a fight club that would bring a little more satisfaction in his life. Tyler Durden, a soap maker, joins him in the fight club, who later welcome in a number of men who also harbor the enthusiasm of recreational fights. The protagonist embroils himself in a relationship with a dissolute woman by the name Marla Singer. The main aim of the director, Fincher, in taking upon this film, was to develop them about violence. The fight club drama is all about recreational fights for money or for the dead (Palahniuk 22).

The director intends to use the violence portrayed in the film as a metaphor for the conflicts that occur between the advertising value system and generation of young people. The story provides an in-depth analysis of how violence and crime shape the character of an individual. The unnamed narrator is a sole travelling personality who uses an automobile moving from city to city. He is a victim of insomnia, and as such suffers greatly from lack of enough sleep. However, he attends a support group for people suffering from testicular cancer, after he fools them to think that he is a fellow victim. He later on meets Tyler Durden in a flight, and after a few drinks, engages in a fistfight outside the bar for fun, attracting crowds (Palahniuk 22).

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar is a 2007 bestselling novel written by a Dominican writer by the name Junot Diaz. This particular novel deals with the experiences that Diaz had in his ancestral homeland, of New Jersey. The book covers chronicles from the life of Oscar Wao