Fight Club Reading Journal
Order Description
As you read, keep a reading journal . Take notes chapter by chapter and focus on the following questions. Keep adding to your observations and be sure to cite specific passages that illustrate your points and that stand out to you. These will not only enable you to understand this novel on a deeper level, but will be very helpful when you write your paper.
Fight Club Reading Journal Questions
DIRECTIONS
As you read, keep a reading journal . Take notes chapter by chapter and focus on the following questions. Keep adding to your observations and be sure to cite specific passages that illustrate your points and that stand out to you. These will not only enable you to understand this novel on a deeper level, but will be very helpful when you write your paper.
QUESTIONS
1. Who is the narrator? Note his character traits, chapter by chapter. Do they change?
2. Who is Tyler Durden? Note his character traits, chapter by chapter. Do they change?
3. Who is Marla Singer? Note her character traits, chapter by chapter. Do they change?
4. What are these three characters looking for and protesting against?
5. What is the relationship between these three characters?
6. Why do so many join fight club?
7. What is the main idea of each chapter and of the entire novel?
8. How does the novel relate to other things we have read?
9. How does Freud’s theory factor into this story?
10. How does Stanley Milgram’s “Perils of Obedience” experiment relate to this story?