4th Annual WML Academic Symposium

What could drive a person to terrorism? Two contemporary American novels that examine this question are Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. In both works, terrorist organizations rebel against an unjust society. The Seven Days, a paramilitary group completely devoted to maintaining the ratio between whites and blacks, and Project Mayhem, a guerilla movement using prankish assignments to challenge a cruel social hierarchy. These two groups fight to achieve a utopian society with differing structure, tactics, and obstacles, while questioning the abstract existence of man.