Fight Club Research Paper

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Gerardo Diaz
EN 210
Can a story be true, even if it isn’t?

Throughout the course, we have read stories in which the settings take place in somewhere familiar to us (Fight Club), where we can recognize some aspects (ToTS) and where it is completely different to us (Androids). All these stories have a different image, each tells a different tale and each does not tell a true but only aspects of the truth. That’s not to say that these stories are not true at all, but if you were to ask some English major or any college student, they would say that these stories are not true but hold certain truths about the human psyche-as does any story ever told or written.
It’s hard to explain this concept without it turning into a physics/psychology/philosophy/spiritualistic approach, but that really is the only way it can be explained. Okay, I would like to start off with the multiverse theory, the multiverse theory is the theory that within this universe, galaxy, time and space there exists many different parallel us. Someone that looks like me but may have done something different, someone that may be older or younger than me, someone that probably died already or someone that wasn’t born. Vast amounts of parallel worlds exist, so within one of those worlds maybe these stories aren’t stories but someone’s life. DC comics has actually …show more content…

Some may say that it does and others may say it doesn’t. I would like to point out that it does, not because it is a physical thing and it has to make a sound. It makes a sound because once that question was posed on us, we manifested that tree falling and making a sound. If we never were told that question, we would have never thought of a tree falling in an empty forest. If I never saw my girlfriend, she would have never existed in my mind, but because I saw her once, I was able to know that she existed. Once a thought enters someone’s mind, it becomes

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