ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Atavism, Testicular Cancer, Tantrum

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Cory Sampson

Document Summary

Foreshadowing: doesn"t mean a clue of what the ending is going to be. Event or symbol that connects to later event in text. Usually only becomes apparent after later event happens or upon rereading the text. If you don"t already know how it ends, you might not pick up on the foreshadowing. Allegory: a story that has deeper symbolic meaning. Chicken little represents a figure gathering rest of followers, fox is exploiting everyone. Bob is a symbolic womb for the narrator; surrogate mother where he is able to cry. Physical manliness taken away with testicular cancer; societal: (51) narrator talks about his father telling him what to do; father says get married. Tyler"s philosophy is atavistic; ancient violent nature of all male society in fight club of men who never have to grow up in therapeutic violence vs having to start a family of your own.