The movie, Fight Club, has always been one of my favorites, and it was inevitable that when I made my story change that Fight Club would influence my story. The twist and turns throughout the movie make it unlike any other movie out there and it keeps you wondering until the end. Also, the use of an unreliable narrator is something I haven't ever seen used in another movie. I think it was this movie that made me want to use an unreliable narrator. I want the reader to be wondering who my narrator is much the same way the viewer is trying to figure out whether they can trust the words of the unknown narrator in, Fight Club. However, I have taken the same idea of Fight Club, and I have tried to scale it down to a lower level so that younger kids are trying to figure it out and can come to the same realization as we do while watching the movie. I got these ideas while watching the movie.
When I found out that the movie was actually based on a book I was actually somewhat excited to read something as my mentor text. Surprisingly, the movie, Fight Club, is a good representation of the book. However, regardless of how good the movie is, the book is always better. It takes the use of an unreliable narrator to a whole new extent. The book opens up with the un-named narrator explaining his current predicament, which involves him having a gun barrel in his mouth. This immediately puts questions into the readers head, as the reader wonders whether or not a man with a gun in his mouth can be trusted. Another thing I found interesting in this novel was the way that Chuck Palahniuk jumps around within the novels. Sometimes he will start off a chapter on one subject, leave it, then return to it again near the end of the chapter. Other times he will mention a topic in one chapter and return to it chapters later. An example of this is when the narrator mentions that Tyler works part time as a banquet waiter in chapter three. It isn't until chapter ten that the narrator goes on to talk about Tyler working as a banquet waiter. Personally I think that the jumping around is interesting and reminds me of the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. All together I think the novel, Fight Club, was very influential to my own childrens book.
