Fight Club Protagonist
Communication
Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
Personal Awareness and Responsibility
Collaborate to plan, carry out, and review constructions and activities: the protagonist and Tyler collaborated to make fight club, and then they carried out fight club activities every week.
Acquire, interpret, and present information: the protagonist went to support groups regularly, but didn’t share much about himself, and when he did, it wasn’t the truth.
Creative Thinking
Generating ideas: the protagonist and Tyler generated the idea of fight club in order to release pent up anger aggression therefore quieting their conscious.
Developing ideas: the protagonist went to fight club every week, but even though he kept getting injured, he still went to work that way and didn’t try to change what he was doing or reflect on his idea.
Critical Thinking
Analyze and critique: the protagonist shows that he likes going to support groups and fight club—when Marla suddenly starts going to the same support group, he loses the enjoyment of going. He also goes to support group and listens to other people’s perspectives of living with their illnesses, therefore, he can analyze evidence from different perspectives.
Social Responsibility
Develop and design: the protagonist doesn’t adjust his actions after getting beaten and having to go to work the next, which has happened multiple times.
Personal values and choice: the protagonist is apparent in how much importance he places on support groups and fight club in his life. Even though he has to go to work beaten up after fight club, he still keeps going. Not to mention, when Marla starts coming to support groups, we see how he feels upset—like the support groups were his special place to go, but then they were stolen from him.
Relationship and cultural contexts: the protagonist doesn’t discuss himself and his family very much. He plays a false identity in the support groups because he pretends to have illnesses he does not.
Well-being: the protagonist goes to support groups, which make him and support a positive state of well-being. While facing insomnia, he starts going to the support groups as a strategy to find peace in a stressful time.
Self-regulation: the protagonist isn’t able to talk about his feelings and emotions in a healthy way, so instead he starts fight club to have fights to release his emotions.
Building Relationships: the protagonist went to support groups and built relationship with various people over the time he went there, e.g. Bob, and eventually Marla. He also built a relationship with Tyler, which lead them to starting fight club. He was able to be a part of a group and be kind to others because of the support groups.
Solving problems in peaceful ways: in order to solve his problems, the protagonist started fight club and fought in order to release stress and “solve” his problems.