Choke

'The question is always: So what do you feel like choking on tonight?' (Palahniuk 75).


Choke is a medical dictionary of things you do not want to be diagnosed with and it is all from the charismatic mind of Chuck Palahniuk. Where the characters are so well written they are almost real.
Choke is about a med school drop out Victor Mancini, who dropped out to pay for his mother’s hospice, in order to do that along with working at Colonial Dunsboro, a reenactment museum, a goes to upper class restaurants, with the assistance of his best friend Denny, and makes himself choke on the food in order to get saved by one the patrons where they will then give him money for their grief.
Chuck holds nothing back in his satirical abilities. Every word is calculated and meaningful. Even his seemingly random additions of medical knowledge are
tasteful as well as insightful for the reader.
‘Author Chuck Palahniuk, requires that you dive through the looking glass into a labyrinth where personal identity is fluid. At one point its cheerfully snarky narrator and self-proclaimed sex addict Victor Mancini…’ Stephen Holden, New York Times.
Choking for cash and dropping out of med school is not the only flaw our narrator retains, he is also a sex addict trying to get through his fourth step ‘When he first had sex.’
We then learn more about his mother as her Alzheimer’s makes her believe that her son his a series of men she has come across his her life i.e. mainly her lawyer, and his father, we learn that she was in a and out of jail for number of things as well kidnapping Victor as a child from his foster homes, we also learn that she comes from very well off family in Italy that knows nothing of Victors’ existence.
In his attempt to sleep with the one girl who actually wants to get to know first he finds out that she is in fact a mental patient posing to be his mother’s doctor.
The ending is not necessarily as heart wrenching as Invisible Monsters, or as odd as Fight Club but it does however end with main character learning a life lesson.
The question is always: So what do you feel like choking on tonight? (Palahniuk 75). Choke is a medical dictionary of things you do not want to be diagnosed with and it is all from the charismatic mind of Chuck Palahniuk. Where the characters are so well written they are almost real.
Choke is about a med school drop out Victor Mancini, who dropped out to pay for his mother’s hospice, in order to do that along with working at Colonial Dunsboro, a reenactment museum, a goes to upper class restaurants, with the assistance of his best friend Denny, and makes himself choke on the food in order to get saved by one the patrons where they will then give him money for their grief.
Chuck holds nothing back in his satirical abilities. Every word is calculated and meaningful. Even his seemingly random additions of medical knowledge are
tasteful as well as insightful for the reader.

‘Author Chuck Palahniuk, requires that you dive through the looking glass into a labyrinth where personal identity is fluid. At one point its cheerfully snarky narrator and self-proclaimed sex addict Victor Mancini…’ Stephen Holden, New York Times.

Choking for cash and dropping out of med school is not the only flaw our narrator retains, he is also a sex addict trying to get through his fourth step ‘When he first had sex.’
We then learn more about his mother as her Alzheimer’s makes her believe that her son his a series of men she has come across his her life i.e. mainly her lawyer, and his father, we learn that she was in a and out of jail for number of things as well kidnapping Victor as a child from his foster homes, we also learn that she comes from very well off family in Italy that knows nothing of Victors’ existence.
In his attempt to sleep with the one girl who actually wants to get to know first he finds out that she is in fact a mental patient posing to be his mother’s doctor.
The ending is not necessarily as heart wrenching as Invisible Monsters, or as odd as Fight Club but it does however end with main character learning a life lesson.
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Work Cited
Photograph. PopCultureZoo. Web. .
Palahniuk, Chuck. "Chapter 12 Page 75." Print.
 Holden, Stephen. "Heimlich Maneuvers on the Way to Self." New York Times 26 Sept. 2008. Web.