Persuasive Essay on Fight Club by chuck Palahniuk
For this essay, your assignment is to compose an original persuasive essay of 2100 words on the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. In addition to referring to the novel itself through summary or paraphrase and brief, integrated quotations, you are required to incorporate material from a minimum of two articles published in PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARLY JOURNALS, you may also include additional, reliable source material (text or video) you have located on your own after the minimum has been met. All sources should be cited appropriately in MLA 8 style.
Please note that your analysis should not just focus on the plot of the novel, or what happens in
it, but rather should focus on one of the themes of the novel, such as authenticity, cults, consumerism, emasculation, identity formation, masculinity, mental health, physical violence, or revolution. Also, if you have seen the film Fight Club, you should be cautioned that the novel and the film are not identical. There are events that take place in the film that do not appear in the novel and events that happen in the novel that does not appear in the film.
When doing your research you should be aware there are not many articles published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals on Fight Club itself, but there are numerous articles about the ideas contained in the novel.
