A few questions about this book. *spoilers*
Hi there,
I've just finished reading Survivor. It's my first Chuck Palahniuk novel.
Anyway, I've got a few questions that I need answers to.
1) If Adam was real and not made up by Tender then, why did Adam kill The Caseworker, The Agent and all the surviving Creedish?
I can partly understand why he ended the Creedish's lives. To put an end to the "Creedish Legacy", right? And if he really wanted to kill all the Creedish, why didn't he kill Tender too?
But what was the point of killing the Casewoker and stealing all her files and killing the Agent? All that did was make Tender look like a killer. What were Adam's motives?
2) If Adam was made up by Tender to blame Adam for his own serial killings, then what were Tender's motives to be a serial killer? Although this question isn't really important to me. It feels far-fetched but I want to look at it form all perspectives.
3) What was the point of the two brothers going to PornFill? I thought they were planning to escape the police and all.
4) Why did Fertility purposely let the truck leave with Adam and Tender, but without her? (The Chap Stick scene). What was the point of that?
5) Fertility says that they all die, in the long term, a very bad death. Yet, even if you look at it with the alternative ending, Fertility will survive.
6) Is Fertiliy pregnant with Tender's child or is it the child of the person Tender worked for? I assume it's Tender's but I guess it's open for interpretation.
7) With the "alternative ending", what was the point of Tender recording onto the tape recorder? Why didn't he just stop at the black box and jump with his parachute with Fertility? The tape recorder was gonna get destroyed anyway.
Forgive me for the fact that there are a lot of questions there. But this is the first time I've read a Palahniuk novel and I'm quite frustrated but all of these unresolved things.
I was also expecting some sort of major twist. I've read that Palahnuik has big twists in his novels. I wouldn't consider the end to Survivor to be that great of a twist.
No matter, this won't deter me from reading more of his novels.
Thanks in advance.
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;915974]7) he records it into the tape recorder so that it will be destroyed on impact, leaving just the black box account, so that everyone will think he was on the plane as it went down and they won't bother looking for him[/QUOTE]
But why bother to actually record it on a tape recorder. It would've served no purpose at the end as nobody would've known that were was actually a tape recorder. I mean, he could've just said "testing one, two -" and then jumped off the plane.
Thanks for your help.
Can anybody else answer the remaining questions that are kind of bugging me? 
because there would be a time descrepancy between when he was last talking to when the plane hit
with the tape recorder it sounds like he was on the plane to the very last
Oh, thanks. Now I understand that little bit.
That really helps.
Can anybody help me with the other little bits.
I've got a question too. If Tender really did that with the tape recorder thing, how did he survive? There were no more parachutes inside the plane.
Tender gets a half-dozen parachutes (and more tiny bottles of gin) while dropping off passengers in Port Vila. (pg. 2)
it's been awhile since i read that book but i think i remember a couple of these events
2) i think you answer that one in your first question about wanting to get rid of the "Creedish legacy"
5) i think that was a kind of existential remark about how we all die in the end.
6) i always read it as being Tender's kid
7) he records it into the tape recorder so that it will be destroyed on impact, leaving just the black box account, so that everyone will think he was on the plane as it went down and they won't bother looking for him