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Fight Club vs. Zoo
Comparative Essay: Fight Club vs. Zoo Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and James Patterson’s Zoo are both two very different novels that revolve around supressed anger and the release of that emotion. Fight Club is about an insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker who form an underground fight club that transforms into a violent revolution. Zoo revolves around a young, twenty-three year old biologist, who drops out of college to bring forward his Human-Animal Conflict theory, to help protect the world and the human race from an upcoming catastrophe. Anger is an emotion related to one's psychological interpretation of having been offended, wronged or denied; and can be seen frequently in both novels. Anger in Fight Club, and the strong emotions connected to it, are portrayed through the characters Tyler Durden, Marla Singer, and the Narrator, while the emotions relating to anger in Zoo are portrayed by the characters Jackson Oz, Natalie Shaw, and Chloe Tousignant. Tyler Durden is angry and appalled by the selfish, rich people of the world. He hates their obsession with their material possessions and wants to free them from their objects before “The things they [you] own end up owning them [you]” (Palahniuk, 53). Tyler believes and lives by the idea that “You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world” (Palahniuk, 84). Tyler’s anger comes from his frustration with society because of their obsession with material objects, and he wants to open their eyes to all the wrong choices they are making. The specific situations he addresses in this line are circumstances that cause a great amount of stress in today’s society, and he wants to free us from that stress. Tyler is one of the most obviously angry and frustrated characters in the novel. Similar to Tyler, Jackson Oz is
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