Once you've read some pages (p. 41 is due Wednesday, Oct. 1), type three questions you have here. These questions will shape our discussions and help us excavate more. The more analytical your questions, the better. None of your questions may be the same as any other student's. This exercise is worth 10 points and is due at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1. Remember to type your class period in front of your three questions.
(This picture is the Ken Kesey, the author, with his bus called "Further." He was Head of the hippies in the '60s; the Merry Pranksters and others joined him on psychedelic journeys.)
103 comments:
pd 1
Why does the Chief act deaf and dumb? I know he's trying to go unnoticed but everyone notices him. So does it honestly make any difference?
Why is he so afraid of the Black Boys? Have they done something to him in the past to make him act like that?
Why is Nurse Ratched so mean? Has she always acted this way? Has she ever been nice?
How long has Chief been there? He was once a normal boy at one point.
What happened to his family?
Does he always have mixed realities? (He mixes in memories of when he was younger into his daily life) Does he know how to deal with reality? He seems emotionally and mentally immature; Is he always like this? And is he educationally "Challenged? He doesnt appear to be very bright at all. Has he always just been taught by his father or was there anyone else who has helped him learn throughout the years?
Bravo, Brittany! Exemplary and impressive. Where did you get the novel? On what page are you? Have you seen the film already, too?
The Chief acts deaf and dumb to hide from what has made him feel terrible throughout his life.
The black boys are part of the Combine, his delusional system that petrifies him.
More answers to come...
7
1. Are the three big black men workers of the mental institute or are the paitients?
2. because chief told us that he dosnt remember everything does that make him unreliable. but, he also told us that all the events are true. does that make him reliable?
3. I dont really understand everything that happened in the shaving room. Why did chief have to go in there in the first place? i didnt see what he did wrong. Why did he go into the closet to hide from them?
3 Why did Ken Kesey make his main character Native American? Is there a symbol behind it?
Why does Chief Bromden imagine black boys and not boys of another race?
Why does the Big Nurse not keep doctors around for very long? Does she have a bad past that makes her so uneasy with people?
Why does Chief hide in the Closet?
Why does Chief imagine the nurse as such a big and powerful person? what is she really like when she is not at work?
Why is Chief out in the hallway cleaning? Is that a job that he is required to do?
I'm in period 5
3.
What is the white fog in the shaving room? Is it water? or actual fog? or shaving cream?
Why does Chief find Big Nurse's figure so unbalanced and 'manufactured incorrectly', when most men would find it appealing and attractive?
Who are the black boys and what are they cleaning up? Are they patients or workers, and what kind of 'sex acts' are they cleaning up at the beginning of the novel?
5
What did cheif do to get sent here?
Why is Big Nurse so mean to the black men?
Why do they have to shave him in the morning?
3
What exactly happened to Cheif to make him feel so insignificant. Obviously it was something major, maybe while he was in war.
How could someone fake being deaf and dumb for so long. I believe Mr. C said for some decades, but how. I definitely couldn't take it. Do people really buy that its real, and not fake?
How does Ken Kesey know how this guy should feel. Did Kesey go through similiar experiences as Cheif is and will be going through throughout this novel?
5
Are the three black males patients at the institute or just workers?
Does Chief wish these things he makes up or imagines were real?
Does the nurse abuse the patients or maybe do the patients abuse her?
pd 3
1. Why would McMurphy want to be in a mental hospital when he's not mental? I know he hated farming, but to be in a mental hospital as to farming?
2. Are some of the things the Chief sees real or imagined? Like the fog that goes around his face alot... imagined?
3. Did Ken Kesney write this book WHILE he was on LSD or after he had been on it?
P. 3
1. Why doesn't Chief like being shaved before breakfast?
2. Does the orange lipstick and fingernail polish that Big Nurse wears represent something?
3. Does Chief become crazy before, during, or after the war ,or was he born crazy?
P.3
1. What is the day room? Is it like a gameroom?
2. Is McMurphy even a psychopath, and if not why is he there?
3. Why, on that particlar day, can't chief go see the Admission like he has before? Why does he have to sit in the chair and only listen to what is going on?
Period 1.
1. I have seen the movie, but not recently. How close related is the novel to the movie, considering the perspective of the novel is through a "deaf/dumb" person?
2. After reading some of the "visions" the author has, I'm wondering if the "visions" are going to have a theme or are they just going to be random memories?
3. Other than random memories, are his "visions" symbolic for anything through out the novel or foreshadowing for the ending?
period 3
Why does chief hold onto McMurphy's hand for so long?
Why are the black boys so concerned about taking McMurphy's temperature in the shower? Are they homosexuals?
Is McMurphy and the Big Nurse smiling at each other for awhile a sign that they will hook up later on?
7 Will McMurphy and the chief get along and help each other?
Will Chief ever get out of the nut house or is he stuck there till he dies?
Will the nurse end up losing her job for the way she treats the paitents?
Period 7
Why doesn't the Chief like to be shaved?
Why does Cheif think everything is a machine?
What happend to Cheif earliere in life to make him the way he is today?
3
1. If Chief was trying to act deaf why would he go hide in the closet as soon as he heard the head nurse mention shaving him.
2. Why have the people combine workers not tried to fix Chief like the other Chronics.
3. What is McMurphy really trying to accomplish by acting friendly to everybody.
pd5
1.)Why is Chief in the Phsyco ward anyway? What outrageous thing did he do to get into there?
2.)Why does the author use three black males in the story, and an indian as a main character...? Wheres the typical white male? Is he the head doctor of the novel.
3.)Does Chief act dumb and deaf because his partents neglected him as a young boy? Like treated him bad, never had faith in him, maybe called him names, or they could have ignored him so much he just became silenced? Or is this just how he was after he came out of war?
period 3
I dont really understand why the black boys always chase the other guys with the thermometer. What is the significance behind the thermometer?
On page 20 Ruckly is treated very badly. Is he really getting treated like this or is the narrator just exaggerating again?
Why do the 3 black boys treat everyone so badly? Are they patients? Do they act this way on other people because they have mental problems?
period 5
why use the mop to push people away since he works at hospital why not a different tool?
Why does he believe that people are gonna rape them, I could see why he would think that people could harm him, but why does he think the people want to commit a sex act on him?
Why does mcmurphy dress himself as a cowboy when hes in a hospital?
P.3
1. How was it possible for Chief to talk to one of the Negro girls? Black people always got in trouble for talking to white people back then, so how come Chief didn't get into trouble?
2. Does Mr. Taber refuse to take the red pills every morning. Since they take medication every morning, does he have a memory problem that he has to ask the nurse what they are?
3. Is the main goal of this hospital to make the patients become better so they can be successful out in the real world. Is that why Chief calls the ward a factory so they can fix them up and make them better to be shipped out and used?
period 3
1.How did Chief begin thinking that everyone working at the ward is somehow a robot or part of some big machine?
2.Why is the person in charge of the ward a woman instead of a man? Is Kesey trying to say something about the role of women?
3.Has Chief always been apart of the Chronics or did he use to be an acute but got worse over time?
Period 1
1. How does Mcmurphy find out that Chief Broom is faking his blindness and deafness?
2. What kind of trauma would make someone like Chief Broom think that everyone is made of robot parts
3. Does nurse Ratched actually think what she is doing is helping the patients of is she trying to prolong their stay.
Pd 5
What historical events are going on during this time period?
On page ten when Chief is describing nurse and saying her wicker bag is the shape of a tool box does this represent something if so what?
What does Chief mean when he says "They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed?"
Period 5
1.)Has Kesey himself been in a psychiatric ward, or maybe worked in one in his lifetime? Other wise how does he know what it is like in one?
2.)What happened to Chief in WWII?
3.)Why are Chief and McMurphy in the mental hospital if neither of them have anything mentally wrong with them? Is it destiny that these two meet?
5
-Why does he call them the three black guys if theyre not black?
-Does Big Nurse have a reason she is there, or does she have a motive?
-Has Chief always been like this even when he was a child?
period 3
Is there a reason behind Big Nurse calling McMurphy 'Mr. McMurry' or does she just simply make a mistake?
Why does Chief capitalize Before Medication? Is there any significance to the initials BM?
Chief thinks Big Nurse is hiding behind a fake persona. Why does he think this? What was Big Nurse's past like?
Ally--They are black men. All Nurse Ratched's immediate henchmen are.
7
How old is the Chief?
What did he do to get here?
Why did his mother abandone him?
3
1. Ellis represents Jesus by how he is "nailed like that on the wall", is there any other ways he represents Jesus?
2. On page 30, Miss Ratched says "this is an institution for the insane", does she know that McMurphy is not insane?
3. On page 30, why does Chief capitalize "inside" and "outside"?
5
-Where is all of Chief's family? Did they abandon him and that is what caused his "insaneness"?
-Will Chief become mentally strong and be able to stand up for himself at some point?
-Does Big Nurse have any idea whatsoever that Chief is only acting dumb and deaf?
Pd. 1
They mention Ellis, a patient, who is putt up against the wall in the form of a cross, with his arms going outward...
1. Is he actually hammered up against the wall with both his wrists nailed in? Or is this just what Chief sees?
2. Why is he the one who is against the wall? What did he do to separate himself from everyone else?
3. Is he being crusified? Or at least representing it? Is this a symbol or forshadowing something to come?
Period 5
1. At the end of chapter two when R. P. McMurphy says, can't you wait half a minute to prod me with the thermometer, does that mean he was walking around the whole time with no clothes on? And did he ever get showered?
2. I don't really understand who Cheswick is. Is he just another patient?
3. On page 37 when they are talking about Public Relation, are they taking about a certain person from Public Relation or is it all one guy? Why don't they give a real name there instead of saying Public Relation's?
3
1. They refer to ECT alot in the beginning. What is it and what does it do?
2. What is the fog that Chief always talks about?
3. Why does everyone need to take a shower on admission?
period 3
1. If chief pretends to be deaf and dumb so people think he is crazy, wehre does he get the idea that everyone is robots? He knows what everyone is talking about since he can really hear. So, is he really even crazy? or is he fakeing that too?
2. Why is McMurphy determined to meet everyone? Is avoiding the thermometer the only reason? And if not why does he care so much about why everyone els is there or what their story is?
3. What are the pills that the black boys force Chief to take? Why? What did they do to him while he was passed out? Is this where the sex acts come into play?
period 5
Why does chief always imagine there is fog around him? Does this foreshadow anything that is going to happen or is it something that has already happened?
Does everyone really believe that chief is deaf when McMurphy figures out he is faking right away?
Why does McMurphy go around to meet everyone? Why is it so important to him? Does he want to learn how he has to act to fit in there because he is not a psycho?
period 7
1. Why does McMurphey want to meet everyone?
2. What reasons is Cheif in there if he is faking being deaf and dumb?
3. What happens between the Big Nurse and McMurphy?
period 7
1. Why does McMurphey want to meet everyone?
2. What reasons is Cheif in there if he is faking being deaf and dumb?
3. What happens between the Big Nurse and McMurphy?
woah! i didn't know the black boys were part of the combine! Interesting..
5
Is there someone else that put Nurse Ratched in charge? And is there a reason why she got the job?
What does Nurse Ratched have against the people in the hospital? Why is she mean to them?
Why are all the people in the hospital men except for the nurses?
pd. 3
1. Why do they fight over trying to be the "craziest" person there?
2. Why is big nurse thinking that R.P. McMurphy will take over the place?
3. With the log book, why do they need to know all the stuff the the people have in their personal life? And why are the people rewarded for snitching?
Period 1
1. Is McMurphy normal ? Because the way i see him, he walks in there talks fine and tries to talk to everyone.
2. Is their any girl patients?
3. Does Chief have a family that has waited for him to get out all these years?
pd. 7
1. Has Chief always seen things that weren't there or did his schizophrenia develop later in life?
2. Does everyone think that Chief's mute or dumb (as in he isn't intellegent enough to make sense of what he's doing) as the reason he doesn't talk?
3. Is the Big Nurse actually big, as in fat, or is she "Big" because she's mentally smarter than any of the patients?
3
Do the black boys rape the guys? why do they spend so much time with vasoline and a closed door if they aren't?
Is Ellis really nailed through his hands to the wall? if so, after awhile won't it not work?
Do they really make homemade catheders out of condoms? or are they actual medical ones?
ps i think i'll like the book more because it's easier to get into something when it's different. i have never read a book from the point of view of a sckizo(sp). That would be hard to in a movie. For example in the movie Secret Window with Johnny Depp, through the entire movie you see things through his chararcter Mort. It's shown by going through glass in the beginning and then at the end when you see he is fully crazy. So everything between the shots of the mirrors are in his head. When finally at the end and out of the mirror you see his house is a mess and ruined. It's interesting.
Pd.7
Why is Chief at the ward when he is not insane? Is that where he feels like he fits in?
Why does Bromden imagine that the hospital is full of hidden machinery that Nurse Ratched uses to control patients?
How does Chief fake being deaf and dumb for so long?
pd.7
The black boys seem to be really mean to the patients. Why do they treat them unfairly and inhumane? I know they were treated unfairly and inhumane as well but by doing the same to these people they're being just as low as the others.
Why is the head nurse so mean? She doesn't really care about the patients. It seems like she just wants to be in control of something.
Are there patients in there that probably don't need to be besides McMurry?
Pd.3
1. I still don't understand the whole significance of the 3 black boys. Are they patients? If not where did they come from?
2.It seems like the Big Nurse and everyone just make fun of the patients. Isn't the idea of the hospital to help them? So why are they like this?
3.Is McMurphy really insane from the farm working or is he just trying to go somewhere better? It really does seem like he is taking over the hospital, is he eventually going to be a big part in helping the patients?
1st
Why don't the acutes and chronics ever talk to each other? I don't see what would be wrong with mixing the groups together?
Why does Chief want to be known as deaf and dumb? Don't most people want to be noticed and have attention?
What makes Chief think that everything is robotic? What happened to him earlier in his life? Did something at the hospital convince him that everything is robotic?
Pd. 3
Why, if the Chief is so physically dominant, can he not control the black boys?
If Chief's false identity as a deaf and dumb man was so easily uncovered by Dale Harding, why could no one else in the past 20 years at the hospital recognize Chief's lie?
Why don't the health inspectors recognize the alienation of the more severe cases in the ward as abusive and demeaning? They say conditions in mental hospitals have improved, but the story of this ward begs to differ.
What is the age group of the people at the hospital? If they get to old do they go to a nursing home?
It takes alot for someone to go crazy I think, what is it that made Chief go over the edge?
Why is McMurphy there, did he have a trial for something and plea insanity?
What is the public relation doing in the hospital?
Why does Big Nurse go through so many doctors and black boys before she picks one she likes?
Why do some people come in as acutes but end up as chronics?
Pd. 3
Are the three black men workers of the hospital, or the hospital's own patients?
Why would Chief act dumb and deaf? It would be such a hard way to live your life.
Why won't the Big Nurse let herself be happy?
pd 5
1. Does Big Nurse know that Chief is just pretend to be deaf and dumb?
2. If Big Nurse don't know then why can't she or anyone get interpreter for Chief?
3. Did the Chief work on machines when he is in WWII?
Jaron A.'s: 1. Can the one black person really sniff out where Chief is hiding? 2. Why are some of the people referred to as vegetables? 3. I was also confused on the part where they say they're going to vote for Eisenhower? Is this because they are trying to prove that one person is better than the other?
Period 1
Josh M.'s: Has chief always been deaf and dumb like even in the military?... Does he have any friends that he talks to at the hospital or is he this way in front of everyone?.... Do the black boys just hate him or do they hate everyone? if just him why?
5
Did Chief always act dumb and def? Even before he got to the institution?
R.P. McMurphy. We discussed in class that his initals are RPM. Is the symbolic reference that he is really fast, or is he on Speed?
I know Ellis is a "vegitable" but he still has feelings. Why would he embarass himself everyday standing up against a wall using his pants as a personal bathroom?
pd 3
1. Does Chief have any reason behind acting dumb and deaf or does he just want to be left alone?
2. Why does Chief imagine everything as robotic? Did he have a bad experience with some kind of machinery in the War?
3. Does Chief have a family that brought him to the hospital? If not, how'd he get there?
pd 5
How does McMurphy convince the hospital to admit him?
Have the nurses made people worse like Chief said or were they already Chronics?
How many patients are at the hospital?
Casey N.:
period 5
why does McMurphy want to meet everyone?
Why do they want to be considered the "craziest" there?
Why is it that Chief doesnt want to get near the black men when Chief is strong as well?
p.5
Is McMurphy a patient or just wants to take over Mrs. Ratched's job?
Why is McMurphy not frightened by Chief? I mean he's quiet but he's 6'7" and thats a big guy.
When did this take place?
period 3
How does Chief end up in the ward in the first place?
When I was reading today, I noticed it said "I" and I'm kind of confused on who is the narrator. Is it Ken Kesey or Chief?
What happened to Tabor? Why isn't he there anymore?
And Can't they just do some kind of tests to find out if Chief is deaf? Or why wouldn't they do that?
3
1.Why dont they put a catheder in Ellis? the others get one, why should he have to sit in his own pee all day, everday
2.After the black boys take Taber into that room and Chief sees them undressing him, why does that last black boy stay in there with him for so long? do they rape the patients? or is chief just exaggerating the time that they were in there?
3. What is it about the residents that visit for 50 minutes a day that makes nurse ratched so uneasy, why do they make her feel like she doesnt have any order over the place over that period of time?
period 5
1.why does chief have to mop the floor if he is a patient at the hospital? isn't that what the staff is for?
2.If Chief's dad was so bad to him, then why does he want to remember their old camping trips?
3.Did Chief act deaf and dumb while he was in the war?
What does Chief do all day?
Why does McMurphy want to meet everyone?
Does Ellis feel pain in his hands when he is being "nailed" to the wall?
period 1
1.What drives Big Nurse to be so controlling and intimidating? Did something in her life bring her to be this way?
2.What significance does the title of the book have? Does it relate to the Chief in some way?
3.Although Chief mops the floors and cleans, does he get any treatment or help at the mental hospital?
1
I am kind of curious about the fact Cheif Bromden says the black boys are commiting sex acts. If they are when are they doing this, why are they doing this and exactly to whom are they doing it too? On pg. 36 and 37 there are clues that lead me to beleive they are doing such things to the patients, behind closed doors, is this true?
I don't understand why McMurphy wants to meet everyone?
When Taber asks what kind of medication they are giving him, they simply won't tell him. Why is that, what are they trying to hide?
Does Big Nurse have a boss?
Why doesn't she get fired for treating the patients the way she does?
What's the fog chief mentions? Does it have to do with the dog and hunting?
Who is running this hospital? Chief seems very afraid and worried all the time in a place where your supposed to be getting better.
How did Chief get placed into this hospital?
What was his diagnosis?
6
When Mr. Taber didn't take his pills, did they just inject them in the night?
What did the black boys need with the vaseline for in the night?
Did Ellis really pee a hole in the floor and why did they let him do that?
1. If Chief Broom has never talked at the hospital how does he know their reaction to him would be the same as it was when he spoke in the real world?
2. What is the use of a catheter? How do second-hand condoms turn into some sort of shaving device?
3. Did Chief Broom show signs of being crazy before the war or is his condition completely because of the war?
Pd.1
Why does cheif always say that the public relations guy's hands always sound wet?
why doesn't the public relations man never look into the eyes if any of the patients?
how did cheif go from a strong state champion football player, to a big indian pretending to be deaf and dumb, so that attention isn't drawn to him?
1. Why does Chief Broom want to be freinds wiht McMurphy so bad what when he won't open up to other people, considering that McMurphy is so boisterous?
2. What happened to Tabur, they tell his story and why isn't he at the ward anymore?
3. Did Nurse Ratched have a troubled childhood like the black boys or is she just out to everyone to be mean?
1. Why did Ken Kesey want to write this book? Does he identify with the people he wrote about?
2. Does Chief Broom stay silent and hide because he is afraid that they will rehabilitate him and push him back out into the real world and society?
3. What is the significance of laughter?
Per. 3
1. How tall is Mcmurphy?
2. Are there any other staff members involved in the clinic?
3. What other kind of special privlages do the black boys get besides torturing the patients?
Pd. 3
Does Big Nurse know that Chief is preteding to be deaf and dumb and goes along with it or does she actually belives he is?
Why do the Acutes looked spooked and uneasy when McMurphy laughs? What is so wrong about laughing?
Why dont the Chronics and the Acutes mingle together? Why do the black boys like it this way? And why are the patients all men?
Period 7.
1. Is Chief really just faking deaf or is he actually deaf and just think he is hearing things?
2. Are the black boys paid to do their job or is their payment just to be able to treat white people the way they were treated their whole life?
3. When the black boys take the thermometer and the large amounts of vaseline, are they doing their job or doing some extra curricular activity?
5
1. What is Chief's true mental state? Does he even have a problem?
2. Why doesn't Chief ever react to his treatment from the black guys?
3. If Chief is so afraid of the "combine" why does think about it?
7
1. What else does Cheif do besides clean?
2. Why hasnt the correction center been reported or checked on by anyone else?
3. Did Cheif see the machines before he got there or after?
period 1
1) How are we able to tell when Chief is having his visions or when it is reality?
2) What exactly happened in the "Shaving Room" with Chief?
3) Why is one of the black boys trying to get a thermometer in McMurphy's behind? Is McMurphy enjoying this?
Why is the chief in there in the first palce?
Do the black guys rape the people in the nut hut?
What determines being sane in that place? (like how do they get to leave)
By the way my comment is so late because i got a flat tire i had a series of unfortunate events happen. lol its a good story i tell ya about it sometime.
Ethan
Per.5
Why do the staff get such pleasure out of tormenting the patients? It almost seems as if the patients are more sane than the staff.
Why does The Chief act deaf and dumb? If he spoke and showed that he is capabable of living on the outside again, wouldn't they let him out? Wouldn't he prefer that?
It's not a very deep question, but why do the staff take the patients temperature through anal probing? I understand they like the patients to feel scared, but it can't be very pleasurable for a grown man to mess with another mans' butt, can it?
1
Kelli Hoff (way before due date/time):
1. Why are the black boys (workers) constantly trying to stick thermometers up the patients' butts? Is it really to get their temperature or just their way of having fun? (Or, Mr. C's words: Is the Chief exaggerating the cruelty of the black boys?)
2. If it is the job for the workers to mop the floors, why do they have the Chief doing it? Or is he also a worker at the institution?
3. Is McMurphy a worker or a patient? Why is he trying to take over everything as soon as he gets there? Why is he there; what is his diagnosis?
4. If Harding and the Chief both have graduated from college how did Harding get to be the president of the Patients Council? Is Harding's wife a model, a prostitute, or is she just really gifted but keeps it to herself?
1
Erin Sudbeck
(way before due date/time)
1. Did something happen in Chief's past to make him want to be silent?
2. What happened to Chief's family?
3. Did Chief put himself in the hospital or did someone else?
period 7
What was the nurse like before she came to the hospital?
Were the black boys really badly treaten before?
Or do they just make it seem like, "oh, im black and i've had it rough"?
1
Kyera Nelson (before due date/time):
1. Why is the shaving room so dreadful & what does Chief have to be so afraid of?
2. Is Ellis literally nailed up to the wall or is this just something Chief is imagining sort of..?
3. I'm starting to wonder if all the bad things happening in the hospital are because of the Chief imagining or dreaming about them or if they are true?...It is a crazy hospital & all so maybe he thinks things that don't really happen?
7
Lori Dawidowicz (before due date/time)
What did Mr. Taber do that was so bad?
Where are the patients going when they have appointments in ET, OT, and PT?
Whatever happened to the little negro girl he [Chief] met at the mill?
7
Andrew Taylor
1. Why is Chief never mechanically "fixed"? So do only the Acutes get mechanically "fixed" to behave?
2. If the people who go to the hospital become better, then why does Nurse Ratched make it worse? So are they really getting better? Is Miss Ratched actually successfully healing people but is a bad person in the Chief's eyes?
3. What is Kesey's point in symbolizing Jesus being crucified?
(before the due date/time)
1. What ever happened to Mr. Taber, was he released, did he die?
2. What gives the Big Nurse the idea that McMurphy is going to be a "ward manipulator"?
3. What is the significance of the other nurse, Miss Finn?
Mike Keyman pd. 1
period 5
1.)Are chief's hallacuinations real or is he imagining them?
2.)Why is nurse Rathced so mean to the patients?
3.)How long has Chief been in the hospital?
Period 1 (yeah...I'm pretty late on this but I want to ask a few questions)
metaphor ~like taking a all-out Amish person and sending him to the Microsoft headquarters~ huge cultural shock
1)Why do people (especially the one's in the Mental Institute) think Chief Bromden is psycho?, cultural shock is a very common thing to immigrants and Native Americans. I don't remember hearing anything about Bromden shaking out of control in public areas or freaking out at all. Its all in his head and he is silent because of it. I literally have a friend exactly like Chief and is totally normal and he explains everything to me via the phone or email. Therapy is all that is needed not a mental ward. [FYI~people from WWII and the Vietnam War veterans go through this all the time with their nightmares and subconscious realistic dreams.]
2)What is the reason for Nurse Ratched to be so inhumane? Well...she isn't inhumane but just doesn't care (many people are like this throughout their lives). If she doesn't like what she's doing, why is she working there in the first place.
3)Why is McMurphy in the mental institute? Is it because he doesn't like the way his life is going or is it because he is lonely. There are many people in prison that have been there about half their lives and all of a sudden are able to merge back into the "technologically" advanced world we live in. But these former prisoners cant cope with what has happened and all the responsibilities.
You sure write/think well, Mr. Kruger. I mean it: scholarly, intellectual, and smooth.
1st
1.Why does chief have such an imagination?
2. how does kesey come up with such weird stories,(drug use?)
3.will mcmurphy and chief finally become friends?
Pd 5
Hey well I have a question about book. On the front of the book there is a person stand on the roof. How is it relating to the story? Also the name "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" how it is relating to the story?
1. How can Cheif think up these things? I read them and I'm amazed. It makes you think, what if people aren't psycho, but actually beyond intellegent?
2. I still don't understand the title of the book, why that name? Because they're all "cuckoo"?
3. I'm going to ask the same thing as Kristin. Why the guy on the roof? If is oreshadowing something?
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