My Last And Final Haunting.

Comment on the perspective from which the book is told and how the
author’s choice affects your relationship with the book’s content.


Chuck Palahniuk write with a unique style and highly significant style. In Haunted, he chooses to write about people who are similar to him. These people are writers, people who have somewhat disturbed minds, and Palahniuk must have a disturbed mind to have written this novel.

throughout the entire book, he writes in the first person. At some points this is perfectly reasonable because at these points a person is telling a story about themselves or their lives. However, in other parts, he uses "we", but never "i."

"Its the greasy ghost of Comrade Snarky, what we'll have to smell every time we use the microwave. we're breathing her spirit. her sweet buttery stink will haunt us"(Palahniuk, 271).

This passage shows us the invisible we that appears on every page and also gives us the origin of the title. the reason palahniuk named this book haunted is not because of something haunting them, but because of the things they did to themselves that haunt them. the majority of the people trapped at the "writers retreat" cut off a number of their fingers and or toes, and just as the smell of comrade snarkeys flesh will haunt them, the absence of their digits.

None of the characters in this book are given names, simply little things to remember them by, whether its lady baglady who was wealthy and pretended to be a baglady because it was "in" and lost her husband, or saint gut-free who simply has very little guts because of an unfortunate accident. i believe these poeple are all just personalities of one very confused person, this invisible we.

Another oddity about Palahniuk's writing is his use of quotation marks. there are things said that indeed about enclosed in quotes, however many things said have no quotes whatsoever. i cannot think of a reason why Palahniuk would be selective about his use of these key punctuation marks.