Right Club is a satirical novel written by Chuck Palahniuk and published on 17th August 1996. Enjoy Fight Club book summary by chapter with me. This is the most famous novel written by the author. Through the novel, the author depicts the experiences of an unexpressed protagonist who was struggling with his Insomnia.
When his doctor said Insomnia was not suffering, he was inspired by that and started to attend different support groups by acting like a seriously ill person with different illnesses in different support groups. That helps him recover from his Insomnia.
One day, he met a new friend, a mysterious person named Tyler Durden, and established the Fight Club as an underlying Psychotherapy. After these events, a chain of different unwanted events occurs. That makes the narration think again.
To summarize the story, we first need to remember these events. Here we will summarize the novel following the chapters of the novel. The novel is divided into 30 short plots. The plots have their unique flow based on different situational contexts. Remember, this book is one of the best self-help books you have ever known.
Fight Club Book Summary By Chapter Based
If I write the whole summary of the novel in a prose style, that would also be quite hard to understand and bothersome to read. The novel Fight Club is unique in its concept and context and contains a Social message or message for the anarchist. So, now it’s time to get to this article’s main topic, the summary of the chapters of the novel Fight Club.
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 1
- The story’s unnamed narrator is held hostage by Tyler Durden on the top floor of a skyscraper. Tyler Durden is a friend of the narrator and the co-founder of Project Mayhem.
- Tyler Durden has put a gun on the narrator’s mouth, and he is ready to shoot. The members of Project Mayhem are waiting at the bottom of the Parker Morris building, and some are breaking other offices on the building, and they have planted bombs around all the big skyscrapers in the area.
- Now the narrator is telling us that he knows how he got to this situation. And the narration goes to a flashback.
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 2
- In a doctor’s chamber, the doctor is saying to the narrator that Insomnia is not suffering and should sleep away. The doctor also added that to go and see the sufferings of the people with testicular cancer.
- Listening to the suggestion, the narrator got inspired, and he took a chance to see the suffering.
- In a big room below the church, all the testicular cancer people gathered there, and they shared their pain by hugging and crying.
- A man named Bob has gigantic man boobs. He was a bodybuilder in the past. Seeing the narrator, Bob hugged him and cried out his pain, his worst experiences. Hearing that, the narrator also cried that he was lost inside.
- The narrator doesn’t have testicular cancer, but he has Insomnia. He got relaxed by sharing his experiences, and it was like therapy.
- He continued those support classes for two years. One day, a woman came smoking a cigarette in a support group of testicular cancer-suffering people. And the narrator felt disturbed by the woman he wasn’t able to cry in front of her. So, again his sleep was away. And first, the woman was only at the testicular cancer support center, but now she is everywhere.
- Sometimes the narrator fantasizes that he is telling the woman to get out of the support class.
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 3
- The narrator will tell us how he met Tyler Durden but at the last of this chapter. But he is going to tell us about three things first.
- (1)Tyler Durden worked as a projectionist in a theater. He adds Pornography frames into children’s movies.
- (2)The narrator of the story does a lot for his job. He wakes up in the morning at different airports in the country.
- (3)He uses Shampoo, good food, and mouthwash, and in single-serving containers, he fantasizes about the plane crash.
- And it’s time to know about how Tyler and the narrator met. They met at a nude beach, and Tyler built a large vertical hand out of wood there. And at exactly 4:30 PM, he sat on the shadow of the hand, ” the palm of perfection he’d created himself.”
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 4
- In a Brain Parasite support group from above and beyond!
- A woman tells the narrator that Chloe, a woman from the support group, recently died. Hearing that, the narrator starts imagining what it must have been like when Chloe died.
- The narrator wants to live in “the miracle of death.” But he’s troubled with enjoying it cause Marla (the woman with cigarettes) was there.
- The narrator comes face to face with Marla during a therapeutic physical contact time. He tells her she doesn’t belong in these support groups. “You’re not dying either,” she tells the narrator too.
- At this fair point, they decide to compromise, and split up different support groups until they each have an equal number of cancer and parasite support centers.
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 5
- In the 5th chapter, a couple of unfortunate events befall the narrator’s life.
- First, his luggage gets confiscated because it was vibrating for no reason.
- In the second, his apartment blows up cause he left his micro oven before the journey.
- He moans about the loss of all of his personal belongings and calls Tyler for a place to stay but doesn’t tell him.
- They go to a bar and get drunk. When they are coming out at the parking lot, Tyler says to the narrator, “I want you to hit me as hard as you can.”
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 6
- For the rough fight they had, the narrator has a black eye, a puffed face, lost a few teeth, and a mouthful of blood.
- While the narrator’s boss gives a software presentation to Microsoft, the narrator sits in a dark corner.
And in the meantime, the narrator is telling us the rules of the fight club. - The Rules of Fight Club:
1st RULE: Never talk about FIGHT CLUB.
2nd RULE: Never talk about FIGHT CLUB.
3rd RULE: When someone says “stop” or goes numb, taps out; the fight is over.
4th RULE: Only two guys fight at a time.
5th RULE: Only one fight at a time.
6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes allowed, and fight with bare-knuckle.
7th RULE: Fights will go on as long as the fighters want to.
8th RULE: If this is anyone’s first night at FIGHT CLUB, he must fight.
- There was a lot of thinking about man and masculinity in the narrator’s mind. He had a fight with Tyler first and after that with other fight club members.
- The presentation of the demo ends, and the narrator wonders what Walter must be thinking. He starts imagining what Walter is thinking, and he gets a negative impression of Walter.
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 7
- Though the narrator is dreaming of having sex with Marla, Tyler is doing that with Marla.
- The narrator started living in Tyler’s house after his house got burned.
- Tyler’s house was like a leftover fish on the plate a year ago. A run-down house on parer street, Smells like shit, is dangerous, and the only furniture in its place is a pile of magazines.
- “I’m going to commit suicide,” said Marla calling on the house landline. The narrator ignored her, But Tyler went to help her. Marla was brought back to the house, and she slept with Tyler.
- When the narrator got to know about their affair, he said ”Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 8
- The narrator got back home from work early because his pants were covered in dried blood, and his boss sent him back home.
- At home, the sound of Tyler and Marla humping and bumping is the only available thing.
- After that, Marla comes down to the kitchen and sits at a table; she puts a burn mark of a cigarette on her arms, insulting herself.
- Tyler tells the narrator that they need to make soap to wash the blood-stained pants, so the narrator sends Marla to the store to buy some lye.
- Before Marla went shopping, she said weird things about love, abuse, and abandonment.
- They have started rendering the fat in boiling water while Marla is shopping. Tyler happens to have a few bags of fat in the freezer.
- While the fat was boiling, Tyler and the narrator talked about what it means to hit bottom, and they said, “Only after disaster can we be resurrected?”.
- Marla comes back, drops off the lye, leaves, and tells the narrator to call her later.
- He gets her out the door and returns to Tyler as soon as possible.
- Tyler gives him a lesson. He says to the narrator that making soap and making dynamite are quite similar.
- Tyler decides to give the narrator a chemical burn by saying every kiss begins with lye.
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 9
- Tyler pours some lye on the back of the narrator’s hand, and then he kisses the hand. Tyler’s wet saliva ignites the narrator’s hand into an atomic meltdown pile of pain.
- When the narrator tries to get himself out of the pain, Tyler draws him into it again. According to Tyler, this is the most significant moment of the narrator’s life, and he shouldn’t get off somewhere missing it.
- Tyler again tells the narrator about soap and the value of human sacrifice for a noble cause.
- When the narrator pees himself, Tyler pours vinegar on the burn, and it gets cold, and a giant kiss-shaped scar is left behind on the back of the hand.
Fight Club Book’s Summary Of Chapter 10
- The narrator starts working with Tyler in the Pressman Hotel as a waiter, and Tyler pees in the soup.
- Tyler also tells a story. The narrator describes it, but he knows it because Tyler knows it.
- Tyler’s first story is about his mission as a service industry terrorist. When catering a party, “Tyler left a note for the hostess who said, “I have pissed an amount of urine into at least one of your many elegant fragrances.”. Though he didn’t really, she didn’t know that. So, she flips out all the bottles and thinks her husband did it. She locks herself in the bathroom, breaks all the perfume bottles, and starts to threaten with a half-broken bottle, taking an oath that she’ll kill her husband if he comes near her. After some time, she calms down, and her husband manages to pick her up, covered with glass and perfume; she was bleeding, and they got her and rushed an ambulance to the hospital.“
- Thinking about this story, the narrator wonders how to contaminate the desert with the hold of some hepatitis bugs.
So, This is the summary of the novel Fight Club from chapters 1-10. If You are interested in reading this book, download the PDF file of Fight Club from here. Download.
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