Continuous theme... subtle spoilers?

[balancetheory]

Maybe I'm just reading too much into it, but has anyone noticed how almost every one of Chuck's books has a strong tie to parents? It seems like a general subject to link every book to until you think about it...

Fight Club- The obvious by-product of a dysfuntional childhood and lack of a parental influence. "Our fathers were our models for God.

Comments

[crumblingmoon]

Huh, you're right. I never thought about that. It makes sense, though, your parents are such a big part of who you are.

You forgot Mrs. Clark from Haunted, as well... a big part of why she joined them was because she wanted to know what happened to her daughter.

[balancetheory]

Yeah, it seems whether we try to be just like them, the exact opposite or some where in between, our parents make us who we are, regardless.

[curz]

I don't really have any ideas about parents and chuck, and this is totally off topic, but In Wes Anderson films it's the same thing. The main character has a problem with the father and then at the end it gets solved or it's a parental or sibling rivalry..I guess he has issues too.

[gonnafuckitup]

I've been thinking about this since I read Invisible Monsters after Fight Club, and I realized the theme of parents-as-God-or-not is all-pervasive through most of his literature. I think its a continuation on the modernist idea of God being dead, or God not caring. The more I read Palahniuk, the more I become convinced we are still smack-dab in the middle of Modernism, not in this false post-modernism we (in the general sense) would like to think we have created or evolved to. I don't know..

[celluloidhour]