Outside Reading #3

Back to Survivor. A lot has happened since my last post on Survivor. We have learned a lot more about the church that the main character grew up in. They are called the Creedish, and are very much like the Amish, in the sense that no outside stuff is aloud. But they are very different in their beliefs. The Creedish only allow their first born to marry. They send the rest of the kids out into the outside world to work. That is what Tender Branson is. Also we learn that they believed that god would call to them to heaven, and as soon as he did they would commit suicide. In the novel all of the Creedish within the church district committed suicide. Tender is one of the last ones, until a killer starts triggering cluster suicides among the other survivors. Then Tender becomes the last one. The mass suicide within the district happened along time ago, and was a huge story. It is really interesting how Palahniuk shows how it has almost melded into the pop culture, by telling having some people in the bus tell "Creedish jokes". Like "why did the Creedish cross the road? Because he couldn't get any cars to hit him." Although it sounds awfull you can't help but see Palahniuk is making fun of our current society, not just the one in the book. He knows this is just the kind of thing that would actually happen.