The mom

In the following chapters Victor and his friend Denny go to visit his mother in the care center. The only way that Victor is going to find out what his mother thinks of him is if Denny goes and talks to her and pretends that he is Victor. Another thing that happens is that Dr. Paige Marshall tells victor that in order to save his mother he has to have sex with her, which is not an easy task since he has been sober for about a week now. They will need to take the fetus and plant it into her brain so that she can create new tissue to fix his brain illness. Anyways as his mother talks to Dr. Marshall while Victor is there one day she has brilliant insight. She says that "People spend so much time in judging what other people create that they create very little of their own." She also says that we use "criticism as fake participations." It is funny how she is the one with the brain damage/illness and she is the one that sees how people are constantly perceiving people in the wrong way and in doing so they accomplish nothing in their lives. Also she says that because we use criticism we never really participate in our own lives, thus creating a fake perception to the world around us. I find it interesting how Palaniuk uses Victor's mom to actually convey this message, even when she can not even tell who her son is.

-- l. katz ( catcha later )