Rant Essay

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Essay outline
Introduction:
“Do you ever wish you’d never been born?”
Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey written by Chuck Palahniuk.
Chuck Palahniuk’s latest novel is a fictional collection of over forty confessions which collaborate a biography of a person named Buster “Rant” Casey – whom may or may not of actually existed.
Summary of Rant Casey
Introduce the idea of reality distortion
Thesis: Rant struggles all of his life to maintain one constant reality – everything to time travel to pig guts to opinions and perceptions, a constant battle between reality and manipulation takes place throughout the duration of the novel Rant: The Oral Biography of Rant Casey.

Argument #1: Buster Casey’s nickname
“Listen up, Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet’” (15)
 Rant shows how through perception, you can decipher a person in thousands in different ways, it all depends on who you are and how you feel. This quote relates to the whole idea that Rant’s nickname came from a collaboration [which is this novel] over multiple people ranting about this person who has died.
“You only ever is in the eyes of other folks” (15)
 This quote exemplifies the fact proven in the above quote and shows how Rant Casey now only exists within the eyes and memory of other folks – mainly through the confessions and interviews of the witnesses in the novel.
Thesis: Buster Casey is what started off as a blank canvas and his character was manipulated and illustrated through the words, opinions, perceptions and interpretations of the witnesses, all mashed together to make one beautiful trainwreck named “Rant.”

Argument #2: Boosting Peaks
“Your basic experience, what people called a “boosted peak,” is just the file record of somebody’s neural transcript, a copy of all the stimuli some witness collected while carving a jack-o-lantern or winning the Tour De France” (67)
 This is an overview of what boosting actually is within it book. Upon boosting these “futuristic media souces” it hacks into your nervous system and allows the user to experience new events through the sight, smell, sounds, touch, taste that someone else is experiencing.
“A solid method is to boost for the consumer-product market. You know, those boost peaks when you’re… eating stuff that tastes so incredible, so drool-inducing, that you know the taste track had to be rewitnessed through some starving tribesman in some famine-ravaged nowhere.” (69)
 Displays how boosting is used within the media. Also – and more importantly – it deals with how people are escaping their own reality and doing things such as witnessing a situation in which you are extremely poor but just put on your brand new Nike outfit, or you come from a starving nation where food seems to be a luxury and all of a sudden are served a big mac.
Thesis: Within the novel Rant, the population uses the reality-withdrawing technique called boosting in order to escape what seems to be put in front of them. Without satisfaction in these humans lives, they resort to living through the eyes of another person, animal, or object, in order to find their happiness within a makeshift fake reality.
Argument #3: Party Crashing
“That bullet or drunk driver or tumor with [our] name on it, the way [we] tolerate that fact is by Party Crashing. Here’s one night when [we] control the chaos. [We] participate in the doom [we] can’t control. [We’re] dancing with the inevitable, and [we] survive.”
 This is one of the main reasons why people seem to party crash. To take their lives into their own hands and be able to ‘control the chaos’ and participate in the ‘doom they can not control.’

theres HALF of my essay outline to the essay i'm writing. happy?

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i dont suppose you could help me out any? if you could refer to my other post "so im a n00b and i need some help" i'll i really need is a point in the right direction, nothing to specific.

It's been 7 months now since I read the book so I got no idea on specific chapters or anything like that. I'd say just scour through all the threads in the Rant forum and see if anything turns up there. Somebody currently reading the book might be your best bet on getting specific chapter listings though .