ISU Conference Blog #1

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Novel Title: Fight Club 
Author: Chuck Palahniuk 

Summarizing 

the three most important parts so far that I have read so far is that the main character ( that is unnamed) tells us about how he met his friend Tyler and 3 things about him. He tell us that Tyler works in a theater where he tries to put porn into children movies. he also tell us that he goes around the country looking for more jobs. And the last thing he tells us about is his other job: determining if a vehicle recall is worth it. Near the end of the chapter he tells us that he met Tyler at a naked beach. 

Questioning 

1) why would Tyler put a gun in his mouth then start talking about guns etc 

2) why would Marla join a testicular cancer club when shes not even a guy? 

3) why would bob goes to every person, hug them and then start crying 

Connections 

Some connections that I made with the book Fight Club is when bob goes to every person hugs them and then cry, this reminds me of my aunt because he would cry over any thing!!! another connection that I made with the book is when the main character says he has insomnia I can relate to that because for me its really hard to sleep. And the last connection that I have with the book is how Tyler tries to porno in to children  movies, this automatically reminded me of quagmire from 

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family guy because he the type of person that would do something like this. 

Child Solders

Child Solders

Connections: 

While I was watching the video it came to a part when he said he was forced to join the army at a young age and it reminded me of conscription during World War 1 & 2, also the both the military and the rebels preferred the young kids to fight the civil war because as young kids they can easily be manipulated and they were cheap ( they didn't have to buy them uniforms, pay them any salary etc.).

Challenges:

The part that I want to challenge is when he went to the military base why couldn't he tell the people over there to send him to another county with his family members so they can escape the war and start a new life.

Concepts:

Key Idea that is worth holding from the text is that  we shouldn't use children in wars because they could get traumatized and they can also change their way of thinking because of the war atmosphere that's around them 

Changes:

The changes in the text were gradually evolved throughout the story that was being told because the supporting sentences had the readers intention, and slowly building up the emotions.