Type a 50+ word excerpt from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest that helps your mind visualize something poignant. Your 50+ word excerpt may not be the same as another student's. Then, write 80+ words explaining your choice. Imagery is a literary device Ken Kesey employs masterfully. See my example, which is the first comment on this post; yours should look a lot like mine. And remember to type your period number before your comment. This exercise is due on Monday, October 13, at 10:00 p.m. and is worth 20 points.
136 comments:
"That laugh banged around the day room all evening, and all the time he was dealing he was joking and talking and trying to get the players to laugh along with him. But they were all afraid to loosen up; it'd been too long. He gave up trying and settled down to serious dealing. They won the deal off him a time or two, but he always bought it back or fought it back, and the cigarettes on each side of him grew in bigger and bigger pyramid stacks. Then just before nine-thirty he started letting them win, lets them win it all back so fast they don't hardly remember losing. He pays out the last couple of cigarettes and lays down the deck and leans back with a sigh and shoves the cap out of his eyes, and the game is done" (74-75). I enjoy this excerpt because it shows how energetic McMurphy is. How alive he is. How badly he wants to breathe life into the rest of the men, all of whom have felt inadequate and stale (and safely so) for so long. I can see this game. I can picture and imagine Chief watching the men lose, then win. I've read and seen this scene so many times that it is embedded into my memory. What a story! McMurphy has analyzed the situation quickly and realizes they need a spark. Nurse Ratched must be challenged, just as any dictator or enforcer must if people are to remain thoughtful and invested. Humanity can be stifled, but only if it allows itself to be stifled. Or, maybe humanity can do the stifling?
I also enjoy how Kesey says that the laugh "bang[s]" around (74). I like when noises are given physical qualities; this laugh whacks against the wall and echoes in a bellicose fashion. I can see this laugh searching for people to infect. This laugh has been personified by Kesey, creating a great effect for me.
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"It's Mr. Turkle that pulls me out of the fog by the arm, shaking me and grinning. He says, "You havin' a bad dream, Mistuh Bromden." He's the aide works the long lonely shift from 11 to 7, an old Negro man with a big sleepy grin on the end of a long wobbly neck. He smells like he's had a little to drink. "Back to sleep now, Mistuh Bromden." Some nights he'll untie the sheet from across me if it's so tight I squirm around. He wouldn't do it if he thought the day crew knew it was him, because they'd probably fire him, but he figures the day crew will think it was me untied it. I think he really does it to be kind, to help--but he makes sure he's safe first. This time he doesnt untie the sheet but walks away from me to help two aides I never saw before and a young doctor lift old Blastic onto the stretcher and carry him out, covered with a sheet--handle him more careful than anybody ever handled him before in all his life"(82).
I chose this expert for a couple reasons. One reason is because of the symbolism that Mr. Turkle represents. I think he represents humanity, kindness, and a sort of friendship, or at least as close as Chief will come to having a friend. Even though he is risking his job and his safety by caring for Chief, that does not stop him. He makes sure he is safe, but then cares for Chief as if he is 'actually' human. He is African American just like the other boys who work there, but instead of holding grudges and being upset about being repressed like those boys, he treats each person with kindness. The second reason I chose this exerpt was for the last couple lines of it. I found it amazing that people could really value a life more when it is dead, than when it was alive. They really have no hearts. They would rather have a body to preform experiments on, than to have a life to share experiences with. This exerpt shows the humane and inhumaneness of the time simultaneously.
Wonderful job, Tracy! Insightful, aware, wise, and enlightened. Mr. Turkle is an important character, for what he represents and for what he does now (and later). Kesey communicates a lot through Mr. Turkle. (And the actor who plays Mr. Turkle, Scatman Crothers, is one of the coolest and best actors ever.)
P.3
"I remember real clear the way that hand looked: there was carbon under the fingernails where he'd worked once in a garage; there as an anchor tattooed back from the knuckles; there was a dirty Band-Aid on the middle knuckle, peelin up at the edge. All the rest of the knuckles were covered with scars and cuts, old and new. I rember the palm was smooth and hard as bone from hefting the wooden handles of axes and hoes, not the hand you'd think could deal cards. The palm was callused, and the calluses were cracked, and dirt was worked in teh cracks. A road map of his travels up and down the West. That palm made a scuffing sound against my hand. I remember the fingers were thick and strong closing over mine, and my hand commenced to feel peculiar and went to swelling up out there on my stick of an arm, like he was transmitting his own blood into it. It rang with blood and power. It blowed up near as big as his, I remember..."(27).
The reason why I chose this excerpt is because it gives an awesome description of how McMurphy tells his life to Chief by just shaking his hand. From the way it looked to the way it felt, Chief knew that McMurphy worked with his hands and knew that he did some pretty intense labor. You can tell a lot about a person's past or personality by shaking their hand. If Chief shook Harding's hand, there would be a huge difference, and Chief would be able to tell that Harding has feminine hands and that he takes care of them. I have shaken cold, warm, rough, strong, and many other kinds of hands, and they all tell a different story. So that's why I really like this excerpt because you can know about someone's life or past without them telling you; all you may have to do is shake their hand.
Terrific, Mallory! Scholarly and exacting. You're right: description like this makes Cuckoo's Nest among the finest novels written in American literary history (and in the American literary canon).
pd. 3
"He goes to the bed and with one hand grabs the old Vegetable Blastic by the heel and lifts him straight up like Blastic don't weight more'n a few pounds; with the other hand the worker drives the hook through the tendon back of the heel, and the old guy's hanging there upside down, his moldy face blown up big, scared, the eyes scummed with mute fear. He keeps flapping both arms and the free leg till his pajama top falls around his head. The worker grabs the top and bunches and twists it like a burlap sack and pulls the trolley clicking back over the trestle to the catwalk and looks up to where those two guys in white shirts are standing. One of the guys takes a scalpel from a hoster at his belt. There's a chain welded to the scalpel. The guy lowers it to the worker, loops the other end of the chain around the railing so the worker can't run off with a weapon."
I chose this excerpt because this entire dream sequence of Chief Bromden's is quite eccentric. Right when you think that Chief Bromden is the only sane one on the ward, he has a dream that seems so realistic and out there that you don't really know if it's happening or a dream. Reading the book, I see it as a dream; but from the Chief's point of view, this event actually happened. By telling people, he would sound insane. To not tell anyone, makes me see it as a dream. The parts that make it a dream to me are in this excerpt. "...with one hand grabs the old Vegetable Blastic by the heel and lifts him straight up like Blastic don't weight more'n a few pounds;...". This line shows that this was most likely a dream. Later on in the paragraph (in Chief's dream) Blastic is killed, but w/o any blood because Blastic (like everyone else in the ward) is a robot and is made of metal and rust.
Mine was on paige 80 by the way
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"She listens a minute more to make sure she isn` t hearing things: then she goes to puffing up. Her nostrils flare open, and every breath she draws she gets bigger, as big and tough-looking` s I sseen her get over a patient since Taber was here. She works the hinges in her elbows and fingers. I hear a small squek. She starts moving, and I get back against the wall, and when she rumbles past she` s already big as a truck, trailing that wicker bag behind in her exhaust like a semi behind a Jimmy Diesel. Her lips are parted, and her smile` s going out before her like a radiator grill. I can smell the hot oil and magneto spark when she goes past, and every step hits the floor she blows up a size bigger, blowing and puffing, roll down anything in her path! I`m scared to think what she`ll do."
I chose this excerpt because I can completely picture Nurse Ratched getting very upset. She` s mad because McMurphy was brushing his teeth when he wasnt supposed to and he was singing. It shows every little detail of her getting furious. From her nostril flaring, to her working the hinges of her elbows. Chief explains her walking by him like a big truck. This just shows how upset she was and how overwhelmed and furious she was with McMurphy. He is so detailed in her getting upset that it is very easy to imagine her, as she gets bigger, bigger, and bigger with every step she takes.
mine was on pg 87
P.3
I definitely agree with tracy. You wouldn't think that an aid would risk getting in trouble by Big Nurse by caring for another patient, but Mr. Turkle takes this risk. I also agree on how shocking it is when they are more sincere and delicate to a person when they are dead, rather than being nice and caring to them when they are alive. This just doesn't seem right to me.
pd 1
The floor reaches some kind of solid bottom far down in the ground and stop with a soft jar. It’s dead black, and I can feel the sheet around me choking off my wind. Just as I get the sheet untied, the floor starts sliding forward with a little jolt. Some kind of castors under it I can’t hear. I can’t even hear the guys around me breathing, and I realize all of a sudden it’s because the drumming’s gradually got so loud I can’t hear anything else.(79)
I chose this excerpt because it shows how truly mad Chief is. He believes that deep in the heart of the mental hospital there is a machine, and it kills the patients one by one. He truly believes that at night they give them sleeping pills so that they don’t notice what it really going on, and that there is a robotic and mechanical world underneath their feet. It shows that he not only believes this hallucination but he is deeply troubled and his concept of reality is greatly twisted.
pd 1
I agree with Stephanie, it really seems that Chief is one of the only sane ones on the ward, but then he has this dream that he is convinced is reality and it's definitely too eccentric to be real. Chief was doing so well, he had us all convinced he is sane, and one of the only ones there who isn’t crazy in any way, and that he’s just there because they think he’s deaf and dumb. All of these mechanical people and machine-like activities begin to happen all around him once the room slips down and the walls fall away and he can see what’s going on. He makes these really far out accusations about what he sees and believes is going on in the ward, and how the nurse is a machine and so is almost everyone around him, or they will be soon enough.
pd1
There's a shipment of frozen parts come in downstairs-hearts and kidneys and brains and the like. I can hear them rumble into cold storage down the coal chute. A guy sitting in the room someplace I can't see is talking about a guy up on disturbed killing himself. Old Rawler. Cut both nuts off and bled to death, sitting right on the can in the latrine, half a dozen people in there with him didn't know it till he fell off to the floor, dead." (pg. 115)
I chose this excerpt because he has another one of these dreams that he describes so well, as if it were real, you could almost see these huge boxes of "frozen parts" rumble into this giant storage unit. In addition to this dream a guy dies by cutting his own nuts off (ouch!) and bleeding to death. I have not read after this page, but maybe this guy actually dies is real life also, just as Blastic did. Maybe Mr. Bromdin is somebody that has dreams of people dying and they actually do die in real life. I guess it will just have to be something that we'll find out when we read the rest of the book.
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"It's getting hard to locate my bed at night, have to crawl around on my hands and knees feeling underneath the springs till I find my gobs of gum stuck there. Nobody complains about all the fog. I know why, now: as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That's what McMurphy can't understand, us wanting to be safe. He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out in the open where we'd be easy to get at." [114]
I picked this expcerpt because I can just imagine Chief crawling around on the floor. I find that scene rather humerous. The fact that he finds his bed by touching the gum is kind of gross! This fact shows the uncleanliness of the ward. I can imagine the rooms being dirty and can see all the gum stuck to the bottom of his bed. It reminds me of when you're sitting in school and put your hand under the desk to find wads of gum sticking to it! Disguisting! I also like how Chief explains the situation with the fog and McMurphy. "That's what McMurphy can't understand, us wanting to be safe." Chief understands why these people act the way they do. They are too scared to step outside their box. They are safe in the where they are and don't want to go outside that. Chief's understanding of this concept shows me his intellenge level to be able to see past McMurphy's "great ideas".
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"He puts his hands in his pockets and starts shuffling down the hall to her. He never walks very fast, and I can see how if he don't get a move on she might freeze him and shatter him all to hell by just looking; all the hate and fury and frustration she was planning to use on McMurphy is beaming out down the hall at the black boy, and he can feel it blast against him like a blizzard wind, slowing him more than ever. He has to lean into it, pulling his arms around him. Frost forms in his hair and eyebrows. He leans farther forward, but his steps are getting slower; he'll never make it"(89).
I chose this excerpt because it shows that even the black boy is intimidated by nurse ratched. The black boy knows something is up when the nurse tells him to come. In this excerpt i get the image that he is so scared of her just like the patients, besides McMurphy. Kesey uses some great words to describe how he walks to the nurse. "...blast against him like a blizzard wind..."(88-89). This creates a huge image. When someone is looking at me i can never feel a blizzard wind. I just picture the black boy trying to walk but he can't move and his clothes and hair are blowing straight backwards. The wind is so strong on him that he can't even move. Really the black boy is so scared to see what the nurse has to say to him and i doubt he is really even trying to walk to her.
pd. 3
"Harding looks around, sees everybody's watching him, and he does his best to laugh. A sound comes out of his mouth like a nail being crowbarred out of a plank of green pine; Eee-eee-eee. He can't stop it. He wrings his hands like a fly and clinches his eyes at the awful sound of that squeaking. But he can't stop it. It gets higher and higher until finally, with a suck of breath, he lets his face fall into his waiting hands."(59)
I picked this excerpt because you can really tell how embarrassed and angry Harding is. He gets so frustrated and starts spinning out of control and ends up stumbling over his words and makes a terrible screech until he can't anymore. It is funny to visualize someone screeching in front of a bunch of people although it would be very embarrassing for that person, but he can't stop himself from doing it. Kesey describes it as, "the chords stretching out in his neck."(58) This helps to show exactly how much Harding is straining during his little speech. I can also relate to this excerpt; I can remember my freshman year when I was in speech and I got nervous talking in front of the class. I remember on a lot of my speeches Mr. Wrede would tell me to slow down and relax. Kesey writes, "He's been talking faster and faster"(58) which is exactly what would happen to me. So I chose this excerpt because I could relate, but it is funny also and I could really picture what was happening.
3.
At the end of Seth's exerpt there was one more sentence at the end of it. It states, "What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait."
That last sentence sums up how terrible their lives and thoughts about their lives are. He is saying that the guy downstairs did not have to cut off his balls and go through all that pain to die, all he had to do was wait. Chief is pretty much saying we all just live so we can die. The definition of 'living' is 'waiting to die'. But, maybe he is right. What is a better definition of life? It is the only definition that will never fail the word in a way. Death will always happen at the end of life, no matter what. But, I hope that most people can be optimistic enough to not look at it that way, and can look at it in more positive way, and live their life for other reasons than death, even though that is all of our destinations. I think it is very interesting how you can find out so much about what Chief thinks, and how he views life in just one single sentence at the end of the chapter.
Period 1
Mcmurphy shifts his feet a few times to get a good stance, and wipes his hands on his thighs again, then leans down and gets hold of the levers on each side of the panel. When he goes to straining, the guys go to hooting and kidding him. He turns loose and straightens up and shifts hes feet around again. (Page 110)
I chose this excerpt because Mcmurphy reminds me of me, in a way that I don't want to be told I can't do something. I also always have to do something just to see if I can do it first, then if I fail I try to get better. It also shows Mcmurphy's personality as never giving up a bet and staying ignorant till the end. He is also an honest man and admits defeat once beaten which I admire because he gives back all his money he has won off of the patients.
Period 1
"It's getting hard to locate my bed at night, have to crawl around on my hands and knees feeling underneath the spring till I find my gobs of gum stuck there, Nobody complains about all the fog. I know why now: as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That's what McMurphy can't understand, us wanting to be safe. He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out in the open where we'd be easy to get at".
~I've felt like this many times, not physically lost but lost subconsciously (at sleep, in mind). There are times when I need to be alone and kept alone and there are also times where, having a conversation for a short while can be very therapeutic. Everyone has felt this way at some point in their lives, a type of anger that can only be expressed through solitude. Its easy to keep a "straight face" but deep down you are really hurting and want a simple way out. In reality you're actually trying to find your own medication~That medication, being your "true friend". This is something you can't find instantly, it is something that has progressed and become well known. I've had many instances where this became a necessity. I sometimes feel like Chief Bromden. I some times yearn for adventure or extreme excitement such as Drifting/Racing, skateboarding and working on my new project. That is my experience and enjoyment.
"She knows what they have been saying. She's going to tear the black bastards limb from limb, she's so furious. She's swelling up, swells till her back is splitting out of the white uniform and she's let her arms section out long enough to wrap around the 3 of them 5,6 times. She looks around with a swivel of her huge head. --She Really lets herself go and he painted smile twists, stretches to an open snarl and she blows up bigger and bigger, like a tractor."
I chose this excerpt because it gives an amazing decription of how cheif sees big nurse in his mind. We know that she doesnt really look like that but to cheif she does. Its amazing how someone's mind can play such tricks on them. Cheif really believes that this is how she looks. this excerpt gives awesome detail, i can picture what cheif is seeing in my mind because of the great descriptive words and phrases used in the excerpt. It shows how angry big nurse is at the black boys and gives the reader a good idea of how she is and how cheif thinks she handles things. Its interesting to be able to see life in a new way, through someone else's eyes.
oh! mine was on page 11 and im in period 1
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"Some of us have b-been here for fi-fi-five years, Randle," Billy says. He's got a magazine rolled up and is twisting at it with his hands: you can see the cigarette burns on the backs of his hands. "And some of us will b-be here maybe th-that much longer, long after you're g-g-gone, long after this World Series is over. And ... don't you see..." He throws down the magazine and walks away. "Oh, what's the use of it anyway."(106)
I chose this excerpt because it shows the power that Nurse Ratched has over all of the patients in the ward. Just her presence sets fear into the patients because they've seen the consequences that people have had when they have challenged her. Something that most men would fight to watch on t.v., these male patients have had their self esteem lowered and they can't want to express their own desires. Billy sees that he will be hospitalized potentially for the rest of his life, and he doesn't want to suffer the punishment Nurse Ratched could give him for going against her wishes. McMurphy wants to give hope and happiness to what has been a gloomy hospital ward, but these men don't even know how to respond to hope.
Period 1
She looks at McMurphy and waits till the razor-blade song is finished; then she gets up and goes to the steel door where the controls are, and she flips a switch and the TV picture swirls back into the gray. Nothing is left on the screen but a little eye of light beading right down on McMurphy sitting there. That eye don't faze him a bit. To tell the truth, he don't even let on he knows the picture is turned off; he puts his cigarette between his teeth and pushes his cap forward in his red hair till he has to lean back to see out from under the brim.
I chose this excerpt because it vividly describes how McMurphy is trying to get underneath the Nurse's skin. McMurphy realizes that the Nurse simply wants to create chaos by shutting off the World Series. McMurphy counters this by appearing totally satisfied watching a blank screen. This makes the nurse mad. This particular image really sticks in my mind because I can imagine McMurphy sitting back and enjoying a good smoke, knowing full well what he is doing. It is interesting that although McMurphy is a patient , he is using tactics of his own to beat the Nurses game. I believe that this is when McMurphy really begins his confrontations with the Nurse. I wonder how this battle will turn out at the end of this novel.
Mine was on page 127, and I am in period 7
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Kristin Parker's:
Period 5
"Then Cheswick goes and gets him a chair, and then Billy Bibbit goes, and then Scanlon and then Frederickson and Sefelt, and then we all put down our mops and brooms and scouring rags and we all go pull us chairs up. 'You men--Stop this. Stop!' And we're all sitting there lined up in front of that blanked-out TV set, watching the gray screen just like we could see baseball game clear as day, and she's ranting and screaming behind us" (128).
I chose this because this showed that McMurphy kinda won the part of the bet. All the patients grabbed the chair and joined McMurphy in front of the gray-screened TV, McMurphy earned their support and was successful in his "plan." He seemed to plan thsi whole time. McMurphy lifted the patients' spirits up more too. He gave them more hope and opened their minds. Also Nurse Ratched seemed ready to explode because she kept holding too much in then she couldn't hold the emotions anymore so she exploded.
pd. 5 pg 118
"When they first used the fog machine on the ward, one they bought from army surplus and hid in the vents in the new place before we moved in, I kept looking at anything that appeared out of the fog as long and hard as I could, to keep track of it, just like i used to do when they fogged the airefields in europe. Nobody'd be blowing a horn to show the way, there was no rope to hold to so fixing my eyes on something was the only way i kept from gettin lose. Sometimes i got lost in it anyway, got in too deep , trying to hide, and every time i did it seemed like i always turned up at that same place, at that same metal door with the row of rivets like eyes and no number, just like the room behind the door drew me to it,no matter how hard i tried to stay away, just like the current along the fog and pulled me back along it like a robot.
I used this becuase it shows how Chief still has flashbacks from the war. Noone really knows what these fog, if he sees it because the pills the nurses give him or he just imagines them but we do know that they use to fog the airfields in europe while chief was in war. It seems like when Chief doesn't take the pills he goes back to his normal self and does not see the fog. Everyone always questioned whether or not Chief was disabled or "deaf and dumb" because of the war and i think this fog has alot to do with the fact he was in war. He automatically thinks of the airfields when he sees fog. I have no idea what the fog is actually coming from in the hostpial maybe its steam from the kitchen??? Either way this is a great use of imagery because you can just see Chief trying to focus on one thing when he is in this fog like he use to in war.
pd 7
"I hide in the mop closet and listen, my heart beating in the dark, and I try to keep from getting scared, try to get my thoughts off someplace else--try to think back and remember things about the village and the big Columbia River, think about ah one time Papa and me were hunting birds in a stand of cedar trees near The Dalles. ...But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand sceps in through the memory. I can feel that least black boy out there coming up the hall, smelling our for my fear. He opens out his nostrils like black funnels, his outsized head bobbing this way and that as he sniffs, and he sucks in fear from all over the ward. He's smelling me now, I can hear him snort. He dont't know where I'm hid, but he's smelling and he's hunting around. I try to keep still (pg 12).
This excerpt makes me visualize two things very clearly. The first being the Chief seems like a small child whose parents are abusive and the fight all the time and the small child hides behind a couch or something hoping they don't find her and take their anger out on her. Chief seems very afraid that he will be found and just tries to put himself in a happy place away from the bad reality, like the child and her parents. I also can look at this from the black boys point of view, it's like he is hunting down an animal and can't wait to catch it. I hunt my self and i love walking right behind my dog as he sniffs out a bird to chase up and that seems to be what the black boy is doing. It quite a thrill and I think the black boys do it as a game but i shouldn't be that way with human and human.
pd.3
"I thought for a minute there I saw her whipped. Maybe I did. But I see now that it don't make any difference. One by one the patients are sneaking looks at her to see how she's taking the way McMurphy is dominating the meeting, and they see the same thing. She's too big to be beaten. She covers one whole side of the room like a Jap statue. There's no moving her and no help against her. She's lost a little battle here today, but it's a minor battle in a big war that she's been winning and that she'll go on winning. We mustn't let McMurphy get our hopes up any different, lure us into making some kind of dumb play. She'll go on winning, just like the Combine, because she has all the power of the Combine behind her. She don't lose on her losses, but she wins on ours. To beat her you don't have to whip her two or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she's won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help it"(101).
One reason I chose this excerpt was because it shows how much Bromden doesn't believe in him or in others. He believes that there is nothing in this world that can stop the combine or the ruler of the combine (Miss Ratched) from letting him live his life they way he wants to. He knows that you can try and beat her but no matter if you do in the end she will win because she has control of his very life. I believe that Bromden is not just referring to Miss Ratched in this excerpt, but he is referring to life. He has experienced the ultimate loss in life, that of losing control of yourself. Once you have lost yourself, you lose the battle of life. You give your life over to a higher power. He thinks that everyone eventually loses themselves because that is all he has known to happen. He doesn't get to see the people that achieve great things and that keep control of their life. Bromden knows that once you lose yourself you can't help but let someone control you and that is why he believes Miss Ratched can't be beat. If she is beat, he is lost.
5
There's a Monlopoly game going on in the day room. They've been at it for three days, houses and hotels everywhere, two tables pushed together to take care of all the deeds and stacks of play money. McMurphey talked them into making the game interesting by paying a penny for every dollar the bank issues them; the monopoly box is loaded wit change. (102)
The reason I chose this excerpt from the rest is that it foreshadows of what will happen and helps you visualize of what could happen and then what actually happens. For example the acutes have played games before and McMurphey of all people knows how patient he has to be with the exception of few such as Harding or Scanlon. Monopoly itself is a controversial game, everyone hates each other during the game acusing the winner cheated. So while they play the game they do argue but actually small compared to real arguements however despite them arguing during the game they act pretty maturely and decide to actually use real money, it may be just spare change but for the most part they make the most of it and I for one thought it was interesting.
period 3
“Right at your balls. No, that nurse ain’t some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I’ve seen a thousand of ‘em, old and young, men and women. I’ve seen ‘em all over the country and in the homes, people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow the rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin’ you where it hurts the most.” (57)
I picked this excerpt because I have encountered many people in my life that are ball-cutters in a way. I have seen people peck at each other and make fun one another all the time, with high school being a prime location for this going on. I don’t think I have ever met a single person ( myself included I admit) that has NOT made fun of another person for something, so I think it is a part of human nature to pick on the weaker. I also like this excerpt because McMurphy chose to say ‘ball-cutter’. It is a perfect way to describe Big Nurse because she emasculates the men by hitting them in their weak spots, such as questioning Harding about his relationship with his wife. This also reminded me of the movie Casino Royale because in it 007 is tortured by being repeatedly hit in the you-know-what (it made me cringe just watching it).
Period 3
"He gets three bets and takes up his butter pat and puts it on his knife, gives it a flip. It sticks a good six inches or so to the left of the clock, and everybody kids him about it until he pays his bets. They're still riding him about did he mean Dead-Eye or Dead-Eyes when the least black boy gets back from hosing Vegetables and everybody looks into his plate and keeps quiet. The black boy senses something is in the air, but he can't see what. And he probably never would of known except old Colonel Matterson is gazing around, and he sees the butter stuck up on the wall and this cuases him to point up at it and go into one of his lessons, explaining to us all in patient, rumbling voice, just like what he said made sense" (94).
I chose this part because in my mind I can perfectly picture McMurphy flicking the piece of butter at the clock and the butter slowly sliding down the wall leaving a trail of yellow behind. It also shows McMurphy taking bets again like he always does. The men are shown acting like they are adolescents but maybe that is the whole point of showing this scene because many people believe that the mentally ill have the mental capacity of children. And the men actually might have laughed for the first time in a long time when they are giving McMurphy crap for missing the clock.
7
“The Chronics and the Acutes don’t generally mingle. Each stays on his own side of the day room the way the black boys want it. The black boys say its more orderly that way and let everybody know that’s the way they’d like it to stay. They move us in after breakfast and look at the grouping and nod. “That’s right gennulmen, that’s the way. Now you keep it that way.””
I picked this excerpt because it shows the control the nurses and black boys have over the ward. The residents are not even allowed to sit where they want. The black boys are segregating the two groups. It is unfair to them, especially those who are able to talk and think for themselves. The black boys are threatening the “gennulmen” by making them keep themselves in this particular order. By having control over where the residents sit they also have control over who they talk and interact with and what they do on a daily basis. Keeping this segregation gives the black boys more power then necessary.
pd. 1, page 129
"Just as the edge of my vision I can see that white enamel face in the Nurse's Station, teetering over the desk, see it warp and flow as it tries to pull back into shape. The rest of the guys are watching too, though they're trying to act like they aren't. They're trying to act like they still got their eyes on nothing but that blank TV in front of us, but anyone can see they're all sneaking looks at the Big Nurse behind her glass there, just the same as I am. For the first time she's on the other side of the glass and getting a taste of how it feels to be watched when you wish more than anything elso to be able to pull a green shade between your face and all hte eyes that you can't get away from."
I chose this excerpt because it begins demonstrating the effects of the patients and McMurphy standing their ground againtst the Big Nurse's overpowering ways. The nurse is very upset with them because they sit in front of the blank TV screen when the nurse deliberately said they are not permitted to watch the World Series. Figuratively speaking, the nurse is getting a taste of her own medicine in this circumstance. Just like the men would look into the window being stared at by a cold woman and want to hide, the nurse is now being watched when all she wants to do is pull a green shade in front of her face and hide. This excerpt shows the turnaround in attitudes of characters and the possibility of the downfall of the Big Nurse's reign.
P. 7
"He's got on work-farm pants and shirt, sunned out till they're the color of watered milk. His face and neck and arms are the color of oxblood leather from working long in the fields. He's got a primer-black motorcycle cap stuck in his hair and a leather jack over one arm, and he's got boots gray and dusty and heavy enough to kick a man half in tow. He walks away from Cheswick and takes off the cap and goes to beating a dust storm out of his thigh. One of the black boys circles him with the thermometer, but he's too quick for them; he slips in among the Acutes and starts moving around shaking hands before the black boy can take good aim. The way he talks, his wink, his loud talk, his swagger all remind me of a car salesman or a stock auctioneer--or one of those pitchmen you see on a sideshow stage, out in front of his flapping banners, standing there in a striped shirt with yellow buttons, drawing the faces off the sawdust like a magnet"(17).
This segment really set the tone for me to where I didn't want to put the book down. Kesey had the image of RPM in his mind and put it on paper. The description is almost too much, which is most likely his intention. Chief describes him as a salesman, relaying his charisma to the reader. At this point I don't think anyone knows what effect RPM will have except for Big Nurse. I can really picture his shirt and pants with his "watered-milk description." I've never thought of that comparison before, and its really clever. He already shows his rebellious mindset by avoiding taking the shot the black boys try to give him. Little does Chief know how much McMurphy will change the Hospital in the near future.
P.3
"I put my back to her and dig into the corner with my sponge. I lift the sponge up above my head so everybody in the room can see how it's covered with green slime and how hard I'm working; then I bend over and rub harder than ever. But hard as I work and hard as I try to act like I'm not aware of her back there, I can still feel her standing at the door and drilling into my skull till in a minute she's going to break through, till I'm just about to give up and yell and tell them everything if she don't take those eyes off me"(132).
When I read this excerpt the first image that popped into my head was Chief on his hands and knees. I can't imagine a six foot seven inch Indian scrubing what seems to be something created by Professor Phillip Brainard in the movie "Flubber" off the floor. Also, in this excerpt I can feel where Chief is comming from when he talks about Nurse standing and watching him as he works. Situations like these occur quite often. It is similar to when lets say you are doing a blocking drill at football practice and the coach is only watching you, so you don't want to screw up. You want to be perfect and don't want the coach to say anything or single you out. In both Chief and example there is pressure not to make an error. In Chief's case he is trying not to slip up and uncover something he has kept hidden for years.
period 7
"Up ahead of me in the lunch line I see a tray sling in the air, a green plastic cloud raining milk and peas and vegetable soup. Sefelt's jittering out of the line on one foot with his arms both up in the air, falls backward in a stiff arch, and the whites of his eyes come by me upside down. His head hits the tile with a crack like rocks under water, and he holds the arch, like a twitching, jerking bridge" (152).
Kesey did quite a beautiful job of describing what one of Sefelt's seizures looks and sounds like. I've never seen anyone spasm out from having a seizure, so when Chief tells of how Sefelt's arms were flailing, and then of how he collapsed into a bridge shape, I could image just how horrible it would be to have epilepsy. Also, when Sefelt's head hits the ground and it sounded "like rocks under water" I was able to interpret exactly the sound he meant because I've done that same thing before.
"The speakers in the ceiling are still making music. The music from the speakers isn't transmitted in on a radio beam is why the machinery don't interfere. The music comes off a long tape from the Nurse's Station, a tape we all know so well by heart that there don't any of us consciously hear it except new men like McMurphy. he hasn't got used to it yet. He's dealing blackjack for cigarettes, and the speaker's right over the card table. He's pulled his cap way forward till he has to lean his head back and squint from under the brim to see his cards. He holds a cigarette between his teeth and talks around it like a stock auctioneer I saw once in a cattle auction in The Dalles"(72).
I chose this selection because it gives an in depth characterization of McMurphy. He looks like a convict with the cigarette burning between his teeth. He also takes charge of the room with his personality that makes him appear to be a stock auctioneer. He is in full control of the blackjack table and is the center of attention. The music playing in the background is new to McMurphy so he is the only one who seems to hear it. This demonstrates how McMurphy is far removed from the situation in the ward. He is only there because of circumstance and doesn't truly belong there. This selection also relates to the unstable mind of the narrator. Chief Bromden believes that his world is mechanized and thinks of the music in the room as being beamed down and being interfered with by the machinery.
pd. 3
The residents, the black boys all the little nurses, they're watching her too, waiting for her to go down the hall wehre it's time for the meeting she herself callded, and waiting to how she'll act now that it's known she can be made to lose control. She know the're watching, but sh don't move. Not even when they start strolling down to the staff room without her. I notice all the machinery in the wall is quiet, like it's still waiting for her to move. (pg. 129)
The tension here is so thick you could cut it with a knife! Finally, everyone is backing up McMurphy because they themselves want Nurse Ratched to know that she doesn’t have as much control as the thinks she does. But, Nurse Ratched is onto McMurphy she is realizing that this is all a game to him and she is trying very hard not to lose control and let him win. Then, when in the staff meeting Nurse Ratched changes her mind about sending McMurphy up to the disturbed ward. She basically says sending him up there would give him what he wants so she wants to keep him right where he is at and make sure he suffers. Nurse Ratched and McMurphy are beginning to figure each other out and neither is willing to lose.
Pd 1
I’m further off than I’ve ever been. This is what it’s like to be dead. I guess this is what it’s like to a Vegetable; you lose yourself in the fog. You don’t move. They feed your body till it finally stops eating; then they burn it. It’s not so bad. There’s no pain. I don’t feel much of anything other than a touch of chill I figure will pass in time. (122)
This excerpt comes from the point of view of Chief. He compares death to the “life” of a Vegetable from the story. In his comparison he basically states that the two are the same. How can death be like some living being’s life? It’s very sad to think of a Vegetable as basically the living dead in some way. How they’re just waiting for death. How they are only being fed till they stop eating then they are burned. Also in the excerpt when it states “They feed your body till it finally stops eating…” they refer the living human being to a body while they’re still alive. They’re not even known as being alive when they actually are living. It’s a very depressing thing to think. Also, Chief is used to this way of living; he even states in the excerpt that he feels a chill that will pass in time because it happens so often. What a terrible place! How can there be no pain for the death of a living person? This excerpt along with many others from the book describes the cruelty and unfairness the patients experience everyday.
pd3
“I know how they work it, the fog machine. We had a whole platoon used to operate fog machines around airfields overseas. Whenever intelligence figured there might be a bombing attack, or if the generals had something secret they wanted to pull --out of sight, hid so good that even the spies on the base couldn’t see what went on – they fogged the field.”(116)
I choose this passage because I find it amusing. In the mind of our narrator, he truly believes what he speaks. As a schizophrenic his disorder overrules the obvious and forces him to believe things we cannot see. Even thought he can see them clearly, or in his case foggily. The fog is a symbol of the unknown, the secrecy of the combine. This passage also shows that his condition is not just based on random things; but instead is based on experiences through out his life that build to create his false world. This passage is also revealing of the trauma of war. With out war chief may be as normal as you or I mentally. War could have been his breaking point. I can see generals in WWII telling the soldiers to fog the air field so thick that you can barely see you limbs, and as the fog thickens and then clears, you are in a mental hospital. As the fog clears you become aware of where you are, in front of a metal door, now aware of what is about to happen to you. The fog is thick during this time, due to McMurphy’s arrival; the big nurse senses an attack and tries to reduce damage by blinding the patients to the McMurphy and his objective. In very few words you are able to see many things that may have or not been intended by the author, this is why this is a great book.
Period 7
(16)
He stands there waiting, and when nobody makes a move to say anything to him he commence to laugh. Nobody can tell exactly why he laughs; there’s nothing funny going on. But it’s not the way that Public Relations laughs, it’s free and loud and it comes out of his wide grinning mouth and spreads in rings bigger and bigger till it’s lapping against the walls all over the ward. Not like that fat Public Relations laugh. This sounds real. I realize all of a sudden it’s the first laugh I’ve heard in years.
I choose this passage because I found it to be very interesting. The way how Chief compares the two different laughs shows how sheltered the patients are and how they never feel anything real. Not even a simple laugh for them is more of a laugh in a face. It is a constant remainder that they will never be able to laugh again, at least not laugh at something meaningful because they are scared of the staff and what could happen to them. They are scared that if they show any type of rebellion they will be shut down and be a target for the staff to be even meaner then they are right now.
Erin Sudbeck's:
He laughs again and shakes hands and sits down to arm wrestle every time that black boy gets too near hem with the thermometer, till he’s met everybody on the Acute side. And when he finishes shaking hands with the last Acute he comes right on over to the Chronics, like we aren’t no different. You can’t tell if he’s really this friendly or if he’s got some gambler’s reason for trying to get acquainted with guys so far gone a lot of them done even know their names. (Page 25)
The reason why I picked this excerpt is because it kind of foreshadows that McMurphy is going to help everyone in a special way. I love how McMurphy is so different; he treats everyone with respect in equality. He never did or does look at any of the people in the ward weird, strange, or anything a normal person would think. He sees the real them and he wants to get to know the real them, the person no one sees, well that’s what I think is one of the things McMurphy is trying to do. McMurphy to me is a very interesting character he is my favorite. Like I said he’s different and the people at the ward know that and respect that. McMurphy I can relate to in this is another reason why I choose this excerpt because right when I read this I knew I would be able to relate to McMurphy. The reason why I relate to McMurphy because he doesn’t judge someone right away, he tries to open them up and get to know them. Which I also like getting to know someone because I think everyone is unique and deserves to get to know. The reason why I think this is because each person has something interesting to say. Also each person is interesting in their own way; just some don’t realize it and others do. It really all matters up to the person whether or not they want to show it, but everyone is interesting. That’s really the reason why I like McMurphy because he is very different and accepts everyone.
3
"The Big Nurse watches all this through her window. She hasn't moved from her spot in front of that one window for three solid hours, not even for lunch. The Day-room floor gets cleared of tables, and at one o'clock the doctor comes out of his office down the hall, nods once at the nurse as he goes past where she's watching our her window, and sits in his chair just to the left of the door. The patients sits down when he does; then the little nurses and the residents straggle in. When everybody's down, the Big Nurse gets up form behind her window and goes back to the rear of the Nurses' Station to that steal panel with dials and buttons on it, sets some kind of automatic pilot to run things while she's away, and comes out onto the day room, carrying the log book and a basketful of notes. Her uniform, even after she's been here half a day, is still starched so still it don't exactly bend any place; it cracks sharp at the joints with a sound like a frozen canvas being folded." (42)
I choose the passage because it shows how everybody is controlled by the littlest authority or simple routine. The patients don't sit down until the doctor does, which for me, I would sit down if I felt like it. These men have just grown so accustomed to this environment it's almost as if they can't think for act for themselves, until McMurcphy comes along. The Big Nurse also controls these men by the slightest look, which makes a man crumble into nothing. She is so strict and uptight, the men are too scared to cross her or even look at her. I enjoy this excerpt because it shows how controlling one single person can be and how damaging it can be on others. This passage also shows how helpless one can be and how easily they can submit to authority when the slightest things is "off balance".
7
"But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it. Then his breath exploded out of him, and he falls back limp against the wall. There's blood on the levers where he tore his hands. He pants for a minute against the wall with his eyes shut. There's no sound but his scraping breath; nobody's saying a thing. He opens his eyes and looks around at us. One by one he looks at the guys-even at me- then he fishes in his pockets for allt he IOU's he won the last few days at poker. He bends over the table and tries to sort them, but his hands are froze into red claws, and he can't work his fingers. Finally he throws the whole bundle on the floor-probably forty or fifty dollars' worth from each man- and turns to walk out of the tub room. He stops at the door and looks back at everybody standing around. "But i tried, though" he says. Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?"" (110-110)
I chose this exerpt because when i was reading the last lines hit me the most. McMurphy is trying to lift this extremely heavy control panel. In the line and for a second they almost thought he could do it, to me this stands for the fact that McMurphy is bringing hope for these patients. For once, even for a split second they have hope again. Even against the odds something can be done. McMurphy is bringing life back to these people. He is trying and he points this out to the others. When put up to something the other patients just crumble under Miss Ratched's power, but maybe now they realize that they can try too and they can try to over come her. McMurphy is healing these patients more than what Miss Ratched is doing and maybe from now on things will be different?
Pd. 5
page13
It's not a will power thing anymore when they get to my templates. It's a ... button, pushed, says Air Paid Air Raid, turns me on so loud it's like no sound everybody yelling at me, hands ouer their ears form behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. My sound soaks up all other sound. They start the fog machine again and its snowing down cold and white all over me like skim milk, so thick i might even be able to hide in it if they didn't have to hold on me.
I chose this passage because i can picture Chief just sitting in the chair getting ready to get shaved and him freaking out. Maybe Chief is over reacting just a little tad bit. When i picture the white snow i kind of think about maybe the guys are putting shaving cream on his face and since he's moving so much its getting all over the him. Shaving cream is think and you could probably hide in it if you had enough. The loud sound that everyone is trying to cover thier ears it maybe the sound of the shaver starting up and the patients just over think the sound.
7 "He keeps up his high-class manners around the nurses and the black boys in spite of anything they might say to him, in spite of every thrick they pull to get him to lose his temper. A couple of thimes some stupid rule gets him mad, but he just makes himself act moe polite and mannerly than ever till he begins to see how funny the whole thing is-- the rules, the disapproving looks they use to enforce the rules, the ways of talking to you like your're nothing but a three yearold-- and when he sees how funny it is he goes to laughing, and this aggravates them no end. He's safe as long as he can laugh, he thinks and it works pretty fair".(104)
I choose this excerpt because i think of all the places that have weird and crazy rules just because of a few people. Also some of the laws the goverment makes on teenagers is unfair. Like for example curfew is one of those rules that we should not have. Another one is when you first get your liscense if you get a traffic violation no matter how minor you lose your liscense for three to six months. Also at school we have to follow the rules the school board sets. I figure as long as you can just stop and laugh at the rules you can get through them. Its not like you are at school 24/7 like the guys at the ward. Laughter is an amazing thing that can make you go from being angry at the world and upset to being ok and happy. Im sure that it can even save a life. I think McMurphy is there to change things and help everybodys life at the ward for the better.
The first hand that comes up, I can tell, is McMurphy's, because of the bandage where that control panel cut into him when he tried to lift it. And then off down the slope I see them, other hands coming up out of the fog. It's like...that big red hand of McMurphy's is reaching into the fog and dropping down and dragging the men up by their hands, dargging them blinking into the open. First one, then another, then the next. Right on down the line of Acutes, dragging them, raising not just for watching TV, but against the Big Nurse, against her trying to send McMurphy to Disturbed, against the way she's talked and acted and beat them down for years (124).
I chose this excerpt because as I was reading I instantly got a picture in my head. I saw all the men sitting in their chairs facing foward not saying a word and just staring at McMurphy as he stood up to Big Nurse. McMurphy wanted to take a vote on watching the baseball game on TV and needed all the men to raise their hands to have the vote granted. As McMurphy raised his hands the men followed his lead. McMurphy didn't physically raise the mens' hands but it's almost as if he really did go around lifting everyone's hands up. The men only did it because McMurphy did and he influences them immensly. They not only raised their hands for McMurphy but also for their pride and their dislike for Nurse Ratched. I think this is a big part of how McMurphy is making the patients stronger. He is showing them how to stand up for themselves.
7
The black boy jerked at his arm again, and Pete stopped wigwagging his head. He stood up staight and steady, and his eyes snapped clear. Usually Pete's eyes are half shut and all murked up, like there's milk in them, but this time they came clear as blue neon. And the hand on the arm the black boy was holding commenced to swell up. the staff and most of the rest of the patients were talking among themselves, not paying any attention to this old guy and his old song about being tired, figuring he'd be quieted down as usual and the meeting would go on. they didn't see the hand on the end of that arm pumping bigger and bigger as he clenched and unclenched it. I was the only one saw it. I saw it swell and clench shut, flow in front of my eyes, become smooth-har. A big rusty iron ball at the end of a chain. I stared at it and waited, while the black boy gave Pete's arm another jerk toward the dorm. Page51
I choose this except because I can not only picture this scene but the feeling of it. I can picture this old guy, Pete, just feed up and tired with whats going on. He sees whats going on on the ward and can't take it. And because of this, the black boys try to keep him quiete. And insted of quietely going along with it like any another chronic, Pete retaliates. He fights back. I like how the ball is described as big and rusty. Rusty as in used up, worn out, past its prime. But, he still manages to knock out this black boy with this big ball and chain. So maybe these guys are all a little rusty, but they can still be good for something. They just need to be more like Pete and not be bunnies anymore.
"Her face is still calm, as though she had a cast made painted to just the look she wants. Confident, patient, and unruffled. no more little jerk, just that terrible cold face, a calm smile stamped out of red plastic; a clean, smooth forehead, not a line in it to show weakness or worry; flat, wide, painted-on green eyes, painted on with an expression that says i can wait." This paragraph describes nurse ratched and how she is so fake and robot like. How everything is fake like her makeup, her face, her everything. Suprisingly she is staying calm while Mcmurphy is bugging her, like a robot, cold, emotionless and electric.
Pd.1
“The Big Nurse is able to set the wall clock at whatever speed she wants by just turning one of those dials in the steel door; she takes a notion to hurry things up, she turns the speed up, and those hands whip around that disk like spokes in a wheel. The scene in the picture-screen windows goes through rapid changes of light to show morning, noon, and night-throb off and on furiously with day and dark, and everybody is driven like mad to keep up with that passing of fake time…”(70)
I really like the way Kesey uses the imagery to show the reader the visions that Chief has throughout day to day stay in the mental hospital. He uses originality in the simple tasks of how chief’s brain works on a normal subject. To a normal person we understand how time passes and why is seems to move quicker or slower than it truly is. Time is inevitable; it doesn’t slow or speed up for anything. Kesey also gives us the idea in this quote about the notion of having Big Nurse as being time. Chief sees her setting time, but her herself never seems to change. She sits the same way everyday never changing, like she is betting the inevitability of time itself.
Period 1
"The dorm floor slides on out of the shaft and into the machine room. Right away I see what's straight above us-one of those trestle affairs like you find in meat houses, rollers on tracks to move carcasses from the cooler to the butcher without much lifting. Two guys in slacks, white shirts with the sleeves turned back, and thin black ties are leaning on the catwalk above our beds, gesturing to each other as they talk, cigarettes in long holders tracing lines of red light. They're talking but you can't make out the words above the measured roar rising all around them." page 80
I chose this excerpt from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest because I like how Chief described what he saw and related it to something we as readers have seen so we can get a mental picture going in our heads. The fact that the whole dorm floor is moving goes along with the subject that the story is taking place in a pychiactric institute. You can tell that this part of the story is a dream or nightmare because of the rollers taking carcasses to the cooler to get butchered like a in a meat house. It is very descriptive and lets us know how Chief is thinking through all of his messed up thoughts of his.
Period 1
Nicole's excerpt is filled with very good imagery from the book and that is the total picture I had got out of that scene too. I like how Ken Kesey uses a lot of personification and descriptive details to describe things, which really helps me understand the story so much more.
3
"But she's too full of the stuff. While she's asleep it rises in hter throat and into her mouth, drains out of that corner of her mouth like purple spit and down her throat, over her body. In the mronging she sees how she's stained again and somehow she figures it's not really from inside her--how could it be? a good catholic girl like her?--and she figures it's on account of working evenings among a whole wardful of people like me. It's all our fault, and she's going to get us for it if it's the last hting she does. I wish McMurphy'd wake up and help me (143-144).
I like this excerpt because it's a creative way to write how a scar may happen if your schizophrenic. The scar doesnt actually go away when she scrubs it and it certainly doesnt come back from her drowling on herself. It's always there. Chief thinks it's there because of the patients on the ward and the stress she must go through. The last sentence of pleading McMurphy to get up and save Chief is a really good ending to hte paragraph.
Period 3
Yes. This is what I know. The ward is a factory for the Combine. It's for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches, the hospital is. When a completed product goes back out into society, all fixed up good as new, better than new sometimes, it brings joy to the Big Nurse's Heart; something that came in all twisted different is now a functioning, adjusted component, a credit to the whole outfit and a marvel to behold. Watch him sliding across the land with a welded grin, fitting into some nice little neighborhood where they're just now digging trenches along the street to lay pipers for city water. He's happy with it. He's adjusted to surroundings finally....(40)
I chose this excerpt because it shows how Chief sees the ward and the patients. I love how Kesey compares the ward to a combine. When you stop to think about life, it really does seem like a machine. It shows how when the people leave the ward, they are conformed and turned into robots. My favorite line Kesey wrote in this paragraph is the "welded grin". This makes me think of how the world conforms all of us. If we all "fit in" with this world, does it turn us into machine-like people?
"there's bananas for the corn flakes, and he takes a handful, tells the black boy that he'll filch him one 'cause he looks starved, and the black boy shifts his eyes to look down the hall to where the Nurse is sitting in her glass case, and says it aint allowed for the help to eat with the patients.
"against ward policy?"
"Tha's right."
"tough luck"-and peels three bananas right under that black boy's nose and eats one after the other, thell the boy that eny time you want one snuck outa the mess hall for you, Sam, you just give the word.
I chose this exert because i like how Mcmurphy is basically taunting the black boy with the food. He pobably knew that he could'nt eat with them but he still offered. And the black boy obviously wanted to eat something, being he had to check to see if the big nurse is wathing or not, or if she could find out that he eat with the patients. I kind of like how through out that whole section McMurphy is basically on top of the world even though he is still in the ward, that doesn't see quite right. He's trying to build everybody up and have a good time.
whoops for got my period.
period 3 by the way
"There's a shipment of frozen parts come in downstairs--hearts and kidneys and brains and the like. I can hear them rumbel into cold storage down the coal chute. A guy is sitting in the room someplace I cant see is taling about a guy up on Disturbed killing himself. Old Rawler. Cut both nuts off and bled to death, sitting with him didnt know it till he fell off to the floor, dead. What makes poeple so impatient is what i cant figure, all the guy had to do was wait." page 115
--This is an intense experpt. He says he can hear the hearts and kidenys and brains rumble into cold storage. Its like he is talking about when someone new comes into the Mental Institute, they all just die, not physically, but mentally. Like they have been put to their mental death and they cant get out. Old Rawler kills himself (how did he get something to cut them off? thats what i dont understand because he is in the disterbed part of the institute) It also says that why cant people just wait, why do they have to be impatient? I think that when they get in there (of if they think their life isnt great at all) they feeel like they need to get out and they take an easy way out not seeing what it does to the people who care about them.
I forgot my period!! Period 5!!
Period 5
"I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound. The dog could still hear them a long time after me. He was still standing with his paw up; he hadn't moved or barked when they flew over. When he couldn't hear them any more either, he commenced to lope off in the direction they had gone, toward the highway, loping stady andy solemn like he had an appointment. I held my breath and I could hear the flap of his big paws on the grass as he loped; then I could hear a car speed up out of turn. The headlights loomed over the rise and peered ahead down the highway. I watched the dog and the car making for the same spot on the pavement." (143)
I chose this exerpt because it shows how Chief finally looked at where he was. He now knows that the ward is out in the country. This shows how observent the Chief is. I can picture it in my mind the dog walking around and then the car coming up. I also like how Ken Kesey doesn't exactly tells you that the dog dies. He says that he watched as the dog and the car made for the same spot on the pavement. That says that they were going right for each other. Which means that in the fight between the dog and the car, the car would probably win. It is amazing to me how Chief is watching all of this happen and for the longest time nobody notices that he is out of bed. Usuallly they would have somebody in there right away strapping him to the bed. But Chief gets to stand there for the longest time and he gets taken from the window right before the dog and the car collide. I found that very interesting.
Prd.5
"There's a path running down through the aspen, and I push my broom down the path a ways and sit down on a rock and look back out through the frame at that visiting doctor talking with the residents. I can see him stabbing some point in the palm of his hand with his finger, but I cant hear what he says because of the crash of the cold, frothy stream coming down out of the rocks. I can smell the snow in the wind where it blows down off the peaks. I can see mole burrows humping along under the grass and buffalo weed. It's real nice place to stretch your legs and take it easy."
I chose this exerpt because I think it shows just how human Chief is. Just by looking at a picture on the wall he can escape everything at the ward and relax at peace in nature. He cant hear the doctor because the crashing of the stream drowns him out. He can smell the snow on the wind and can see the mole burrows in the grass. His descriptions make it easy for yourself to slip away into his outdoor fantasy. This experience could be a type of recollection he is having about when he was younger. You get a sense that the beauty of nature has never left his memory no matter how far he lets his mind slip into its fog.
3rd
Right now, she's got the fog machine switched on, and it's rolling in so fast I can't see a thing but her face, rolling in thicker and thicker, and I feel as hopeless and dead as I felt happy a minute ago, when she gave that little jerk - even more hopeless than ever before, on account of I know now there is no real help against her or her Combine. McMurphy can't help any more than I could. Nobody can help. And the more I think about how nothing can be helped, the faster the fog rolls in.
I chose this passage because it really summarizes the condition of the patients in the ward. Chief is so happy because he sees that there actually is some hope because of McMurphy. As soon as he looks at Big Nurse his dreams are crushed by the fog rolling in. It’s so thick that he can’t see anything but her face which is what is causing the fog and crushing the dreams of Chief and the other patients. Big Nurse is going to turn the Combine up to full speed now that McMurphy is getting her goat, meaning she is going to buckle down and be the biggest conformist ever. Chief and the Big Nurse both know that the sooner the patients realize this, the thicker the fog will be and the faster the Combine will go.
Period 7
“Her face is still calm, as though she had a cast made and painted to just the look she wants. Confident, patient, and unruffled. No more little jerk, just that terrible cold face, a calm smile stamped out of red plastic; a clean, smooth forehead, not a line in it to show weakness or worry; flat, wide, painted on green eyes, painted on with an expression that says I can wait, I might lose a yard now and then but I can wait, and be patient and calm and confident, because I know there’s no real losing for me.”
I chose this excerpt because it shows how strong Nurse Ratched really is. With her painted on expressions it can be inferred that there is so much more beneath what she will allow her expressions to show. I’m sure deep down, McMurphy is really getting to her, and in some parts of the meeting it is quite obvious. She is really clever though, in that she only speaks when she has something important to say. Also, when she feels it may hit or hurt the person,( doctor in this case about the carnival) the hardest. She seems to set her sites on someone, and wait for the most ideal moments to attack and make the most impression on that person, and others around them. McMurphy seems to be her target because I think she knows what he is trying to do, but can’t help to get a little flustered at his tactics. She also keeps her, “smile stamped out of red plastic”, always on so as not to show whether she is flustered or angry. Again, she is a very strong and controlled person, but I’m definitely rooting for McMurphy to get that woman to crack!
oops!! page 101.
pd7
I already had mine but i didn't really explain the imagery of it. I chose this one also because i can picture these guys all around him after he failed. McMurphy is dead tired after trying so hard against possible odds. He knows he's lost his bet and when he digs around his hands "are froze into red claws". What i think i like the most is when he drops the IOU's on the floor for everyone to sort out he says he tried. I can see the deep thought that all the other patients most likely have after. At least he tried... i can picture all of them going what have i done to try? have i even tried? I predict things will be different around the ward after this.
She looks around to see if anybody else is about to interrupt her, smiling steady as her head turns in her collar. The guys won't meet her look; they're all lookings for hangnails. Except McMurphy. He's got himself an armchair in the corner, sits in it like he's claimed it for good, and he's watching her every move. He's still got his cap on, jammed tight down on his red head like he's a motorcycle racer. A deck of cards in his lap opens for a hone-handed cut, then clacks shut with a sound blown up loud by the silence. The nurse's swinging eyes hang on him for a second. She's been watching him play poker all morning and though she hasn't seen any money pass hands she suspects he's not exactly the type that is going to be happy with the ward rule of gambling for matches only. The deck whispers open and clacks shut again and then disappears somewhere in one of those big palms.(43)
I chose this passage because I can instantly see all the patients in the room off in their own little worlds looking for hangnails. I find that pretty humorous. I picture McMurphy studying the nurse and thinking of ways he could possibly penetrate her invisible shield. I can also hear the cards cracking as he is doing the shuffling in the quiet room. You could probably hear a mouse fart in that meeting room. I can also picture McMurphy's big masculine red hand engulfing the deck of cards sort of what it would be like for BIG Will Castle to grasp a deck of cards.
Yes, Will Castle is a big version of what McMurphy is like. Shrink Will to 210 pounds and you have McMurphy, basically.
5
"Year by year she accumulates her ideal staff: doctors, all ages and types, come and rise up in front of her with ideas of their own about the way a ward should be run, some with backbone enough to stand behind their ideas, and she fixes these doctors with dry-ice eyes day in, day out, until they retreat with unnatural cills. "I tell you I don't know what it is," they tell the guy in charge of personnel. "since I started on that ward with that women I feel like my veins are running ammonia. I shiver all the time, my kids won't sit in my lap, my wife won't sleep with me. I insist on a transfer- neurology bin, the alky tank, pediatrics, I just don't care!""(31).
I chose this one because I can't imagine what it would be like to have ammonia running through my veins. For someone to have this effect on another by just looking at them, this must be one cold stare. He also uses examples that seem to be impossible; the doctor's kids won't sit on his lap or his wife not sleeping with him because of how cold he is. This is just another example of how Bromden explains how Nurse Ratched controls everything in the ward.
P.5 "Can't you even ease down the volume? It ain't like the whole state of Oregon needed to hear Lawrence Welk play 'Tea for Two' three times every hour, all day long! If it was soft enough to hear a man shout his bets across the table I might get a game of poker going-"
"You've been told, Mr. McMurphy, that it's against the policy to gamble for money on the ward."
"Okay, then down soft enough to gamble for matches, for fly buttons-just turn the damn thing down!"(95)
I chose this excerpt because I found it very humerous, how McMurphy wanted to play a game of poker, and he couldn't here and concentrate over the loud music. So he went up and started chewing out Nurse Ratched, but the whole thing got flipped around and she yelled at him because he was gambling for money in a mental hospital. I belevie this made Mr. McMurphy feel kind of stupid after she called him selfish because there's old people there that cannot hear as well and need it louder. So Mr. McMurphy kind of just walked away with his tail in between his legs.
"We can see the nurse's face get red and her mouth work as she stares at him. She looks around for a second and sees everybody watching what she's going to do -- even the black boys and the litle nurses sneaking looks at her, and the residents beginning to drift in for the staff meeting, they're watching. Her mouth clamps shut. She looks back at McMurphy and waits till the razor-blade song is finished; then she gets up and goes to the steel door where the controls are, and she flips a switch and the TV picture swirls back into the gray. Nothing is left on the screen but a little eye of light beading right down on McMurphy sitting there..........Harding shuts off the buffer, and leaves it in the hall, and goes pulls him a chair up alongside McMurphy and sits down and lights him a cigarette too. "Mr. Harding! You return to your scheduled duties!" I think how her vioces sounds likes it hit a nail, and this strikes me so funny I alomst laugh. "Mr. Har-ding!" Then Cheswick goes and gets him a chair, and then Billy Bibbit goes, and then Scanlon and then Fredrickson and Sefelt, and then we all put down our mops and brooms and scouring rags and we all go pull us chairs up. "You men -- Stop this. Stop!""
I thought this was really funny, because the men completly ignored Nurse Ratched. She tried getting them to go back to work. McMurphy grabbed a beer and sat down in front of the TV and stared at it. All the other men followed him. McMurphy was trying to get nurse angry. He thinks he is in command when Nurse is actually in charge, but the fact that he stands up to her was really clever. I was surprised at how many of the men followed McMurphy. Nurse Ratched's expression was priceless. She is always trying to keep her cool, but when McMurphy ignored her orders, she flipped on them all. She yelled and they just sat there. She wouldnt turn the TV on to the baseball game. That is how this all started. Nurse has some compatition now.
5
We can see the nurse's face get red and her mouth work as she stares at him. She looks around for a second and sees everybody watching what she's going to do -- even the black boys and the litle nurses sneaking looks at her, and the residents beginning to drift in for the staff meeting, they're watching. Her mouth clamps shut. She looks back at McMurphy and waits till the razor-blade song is finished; then she gets up and goes to the steel door where the controls are, and she flips a switch and the TV picture swirls back into the gray. Nothing is left on the screen but a little eye of light beading right down on McMurphy sitting there..........Harding shuts off the buffer, and leaves it in the hall, and goes pulls him a chair up alongside McMurphy and sits down and lights him a cigarette too. "Mr. Harding! You return to your scheduled duties!" I think how her vioces sounds likes it hit a nail, and this strikes me so funny I alomst laugh. "Mr. Har-ding!" Then Cheswick goes and gets him a chair, and then Billy Bibbit goes, and then Scanlon and then Fredrickson and Sefelt, and then we all put down our mops and brooms and scouring rags and we all go pull us chairs up. "You men -- Stop this. Stop!""
I thought this was really funny, because the men completly ignored Nurse Ratched. She tried getting them to go back to work. McMurphy grabbed a beer and sat down in front of the TV and stared at it. All the other men followed him. McMurphy was trying to get nurse angry. He thinks he is in command when Nurse is actually in charge, but the fact that he stands up to her was really clever. I was surprised at how many of the men followed McMurphy. Nurse Ratched's expression was priceless. She is always trying to keep her cool, but when McMurphy ignored her orders, she flipped on them all. She yelled and they just sat there. She wouldnt turn the TV on to the baseball game. That is how this all started. Nurse has some compatition now.
pd 1
“McMurphy comes down the line of Chronics, shakes hands with Colonel Matterson and with Ruckly and with Old Pete. He shakes the hands of Wheelers and Walkers and Vegetables, shakes hands that he has to pick up out of laps like picking up dead birds, mechanical birds, wonders of tiny bones and wires that have run down and fallen. Shakes hands with everybody he comes to except Big George the water freak, who grins and shies back from that unsanitary hand, so McMurphy just salutes him and says to his own right hand as he walks away, ‘Hand, how do you suppose that old fellow knew all the evil you been into?’” (pg 25)
I chose this excerpt because it tells how crazy McMurphy can be. It also tells about a lot of the patients in the hospital ward. It shows that the vegetables are... well... vegetables for example. The hospital has all different kinds of people in it and it describes Chief in its own different way also. It tells about his surroundings and makes you understand what hes like and why he is in the hospital. I also like this excerpt because it really makes you wonder why McMurphy is so outgoing (or crazy, whichever way you want to look at it).
"The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see".
I chose this excerpt because i think it precisely describes the way the patients are tearing into Mr. Harding. They are attacking and riduculing the weakest one, when they too are next in line for this so called "theraputic" session. Ratched pecks the first peck and just watches the patients rip poor Mr. Harding to shreds. Ratched does this to gain power and to be in control and make all of the patients feel weak and small and to divide them. The patients do not realize that Nurse Ratched is manipulating them. I see alot of people that are like Nurse Ratched. People who pick on the weaklings to make themselves feel better about them selves and to gain power and to seperate the weaklings from other people or groups. It is sad that it only takes one peck, and then soon other people will join in to peck some more and to fit in or to conform.
oops.. Pd 1.
Excerpt was on pg. 55
period 5
"I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards-how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he'll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up. All that stuff. Every time we get a new patient on the ward the doctor goes into the theory with both feet; it's pretty near the only time he takes things over and runs the meeting. He tells how the goal of the Therapeutic Community is a democratic ward, run completely by the patients and their votes, working towards making worth-while citizens to turn back Outside onto the street." (Page 48)
I think that it is funny how the doctor tells the patients that the ward is run democratically and everyone casts votes so it is fair. But there is a few problems with running the ward this way. Some of the patients aren't well enough or have clear enough thoughts to be able to vote. Most of the acutes can vote and think about what they want, but the chronics are mostly brain dead and don't even realize what is going on. Since half of the patients in the ward are chronic, none of the votes can go through unless one of them can or will raise their hand to vote. Also Nurse Ratched makes sure that everything on the ward goes her way, so if all of a sudden the patients were to vote and overrule her she would somehow overturn that vote to get what she wants.
7
p.49
"Once,just one time that I can remember, four or five years back, did it go any different. The doctor had finished his spiel, and the nurse had opened right up with, 'Now. Who will start? let out those old secrets.' And she'd put all the Acutes in a trance by sitting there in silence for twenty minutes after the question, quiet as an electric alarm about to go off, waiting for somebody to start telling something about themselves. Her eyes swept back and forth over them as steady as a turning beacon. The day room was clamped silent for twenty long minutes, with all of the patients stunned where they sat. When twenty minutes had passed, she looked at her watch and said, 'Am I to take it that there's not a man among you that has committed some act that he has never admitted?' She reached in the basket for the log book. 'Must we go over past history?'"
I chose this excerpt because it shows how smart Nurse Ratched is with her mind games. She will sit there stony silent for twenty minutes looking back and forth over everyone until someone says something. And when no one says anything she will blackmail them about going through their history. Then the flood gates open and everyone tells everything. I see her as a master manipulated. In a way she almost reminds me of the way McMurphy will con her into doing something she doesn't want to.
pd 7
(143)"Then they crossed the moon--a black, weaving necklace, drawn into a V by the lead goose. For an instant that lead goose was right in the center of that circle, bigger than the others, a black cross openng and closing, then he pulled his V out of sight into the sky once more."
I enjoyed these sentances because it show how the patients in the mental hospital group together. When McMurphy came into the hospital he quickly became the lead goose. He worked to make the others follow uniformly, which finally happened when they voted for having TV time changed and continued to when they all sat in front of the blank TV. The lead goose being in the center of the moon is how McMurphy was the leader of the patients, and when the lead goose is off of the moon light shows the time when he begins to behave as the Big Nurse wanted him to and faded into the background.
Pd. 5
"She works the hinges in her elbows and fingers. I hear a small squeak. She starts moving, and I get back against the wall, and when she rumbles past she's already big as a truck, trailing that wicker bag behind in her exhaust like a semi behind a Jimmy Diesel. Her lips are parted, and her smile's going out before her like a radiator grill. I can smell the hot oil and magneto spark when she goes past, and every step hits the floor she blows up a size bigger, blowing and puffing, roll down anything in her path! I'm scared to think what she'll do." (p.87)
Wow, she must really be mad! I chose this section because i love how descriptive it is. Also I think it is odd/funny that that is the way Chief sees Nurse Ratched when she is angry. He has a very imaginative mind. I myself can picture that in my mind, the nurse rolling down the hall like a semi truck ready to run something or somebody over. My favorite part is "her smile's going out before her like a radiator grill." You can just see the hot steam coming out of her grill/"mouth" as she is rolling down the hall.
period 7
"He puts his hands in his pockets and starts shuffling dwon the hall to her. He never walks very fast, and I can see how if he dont get a move on she might freeze him and shatter him all to hell by just looking; all the hate and fury and frustration she was planning to use on McMurphy is beaming out down the hall at the black boy, and he can feel it blast against him like a blizzard wind, slowing him more than ever. He has to lean into it, pulling his arms around him. Frost forms in his hair and eyebrows. He leans farther forward, but his steps are getting slower; he'll never make it." (pg.88-89)
When reading this I think of Jack Frost when he blows his deathly cold breath and his frozen eyebrows. This also is a good comparison to Nurse because she is a cold person and the coldness just fits her personality. Big Nurse comes off as such a cold mean person and very scary too, but I wander if no one just wants to get to no her because they are just to afraid. I think if people would give her a chance she could maybe turn out different than what we all think she is.
Per 3
"Everybody keeps on at what he's doing, but they all watch out of the corners of their eyes while he drags his armchair out to in front of the tv set, then switches on the set and sits down. A picture swirls onto the screen of a parrot out on the baseball field singing razorblade songs. McMurphy gets up and turns up the sound to drown out the music comming down from the speaker in the ceiling, and he drags another chair in front of him and sits down and crosses his feet on the chair and leans back and lights a cigarette. He scratches his belly and yawns.
'Hoo-weee! Man, all I need me now is a con of beer and a red-hot.'"(127)
The excerpt I chose was a very interesting one in many ways. I can look at litteraly and see myself doing the exact same; pulling up a chair, scratching myself, and watching a game. It's very relative. But I also see it as sticking it to the man, or in this case sticking it to the woman. Not only does McMurphy totally disobey Big Nurse, but he shows is complete disregard to her rules by actualling "drowing out the music", the music Big Nurse thinks is best. It is the classic power struggle betwixt two forces: corruption and justice, good and evil, right and wrong, black and white. This is the first time we see emotion from Big Nurse, and we also see McMurphy get the upper hand on her; slowly chipping away at the fortrest that is Big Nurse.
I agree with Dani S. the excerpt with McMurphy's hand is an excellent demonstration of his influence on the men in the ward.
1st
"I push my broom up face to face with a big picture Public Relation brought in one time when it was fogged so thick I didn't see him. The picture is a guy fly-fishing somewhere in the mountains, looks like the Ochocos near Paineville-snow on the peaks showing over the pines, long white aspen trunks lining the stream, sheep sorrel growing in sour green patches. The guy is flicking his fly in a pool behing a rock. It's no place for a fly, it's a place for a single egg on a number-six hook-he'd do better to drift the fly over those riffles downstream.
There's a path running down through the aspen, and I push my broom down the path a ways and sit down on a rock and look back out through the frame at that visiting doctor talking with the residents. I can see him stabbing some point in the palm of his han with his finger, but I can't hear what he says because of the crash of the cold, frothy stream coming down out of the rocks. I can smell the snow in the wind where it blows down off the peaks. I can see mole burrows humping along under the grass and buffalo weed. It's a real nice place to stretch your legs and take it easy.
You forget-if you don't sit down and make the effort to think back-forget how it was at the old hospital. They didn't have nice places like this on the walls for you to climb into.(112)
I chose this excerpt because I think it shows how Chief tries to escape his every day situation at the hospital and find peace within himself and go somewhere happy in his mind. When he goes to hiding in the fog he finds this picture and he enjoys the calmness of the mountains and streams and of the fisherman. He says he can't hear anything in the ward because the waters splashing are too loud. The mountains, I believe, remind him maybe of his past when he lived wish his father who was the leader of a Native American tribe. Indians find the land like mountains and streams as sacred and enjoy the land the Gods gave them. So maybe for chief, he likes this picture because it reminds him of his past when he had a normal life and now he uses the picture as a sort of escape method to get out of his problems at the ward. Like how everyone has a special place they go to just get away from everyone and have time to themselves.
Pd.3
"He gets between the sheets and tells me I better hit the sack myself, that here comes one of those black boys to douse the lights on us. I look around, and the black boy named Geever is coming, and I kick off my shoes and get in bed just as he walks up to tie a sheet down on me. When he's finished with me he takes a last look around and giggles and flips the dorm lights off.
Except for the white powder of light from the Nurses' Station out in the hall, the dorm is dark. I can just make out McMurphy next to me, breathing deep and regular, the covers over him rising and falling. The breathing gets slower and slower, till I figure he's been asleep for a while. Then I hear a soft, throaty sound from his bed, like the chuckle of a horse. He's still awake and he's laughing to himself about something.
He stops laughing and whispers, 'Why, you sure did give a jump when I told you that coon was coming, Chief. I thought somebody told me you was deef'"(77.)
I chose this excerpt because it puts several pictures in my mind. The first picture I get is when Chief jumps after he hears McMurphy say that Geever is coming. I can definitely picture Chief kicking off his shoes and jumping into bed as fast as he can. For many years Chief has been pretending to be deaf so I did not expect him to jump. But this shows how scared Chief is of the black boys. Another great description is when Kesey describes McMurphy sleeping. Instantly you picture the covers rising with his breathing pattern. In this three paragraph excerpt there are many exaples of imagery that instantly puts a picture in anyones mind!
5
"Then you tell Bull Goose Loony Harding that R.P. McMurphy is waiting to see him and that this hospital ain't big enough for the two of us. I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gypo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton--so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one. Tell this Harding that he either meets me man to man or he's a yaller skunk and better be outta town by sunset(24)."
I choose this excerpt from the book because it shows how McMurphy is trying to take over. McMurphy is always use to being the top guy, the one in charge, and that he knows he has to get by Harding if he wants to be the top man around the ward. You can also tell that McMurphy is not use to having someone else in his way to be at the top, he is use to just having it kind of given to him.
pd. 3
"The way you see the change in a person you've been away from for a long time, where somebody who sees him every day, day in, day out, wouldn't notice because the change is gradual. All up the coast I could see the signs of what the Combine had accomplished since I was last through this country, things like, for example--a train stopping at a station and laying a string of full-grown men in mirrored suits and machined hats, laying them like a hatch of identical insects, half-life things coming pht-pht-pht out of the last car, then hooting its electric whistle and moving on down the spoiled land to deposit another hatch. (203)"
I picked this excerp because it shows how Chief has slowly been coming out of his insanity. And it reminds me of the feeling when spring comes around, like you are finally waking up after being in a coma like state all winter. It shows how he is finally seeing things clearly for the first time in a long time. Chief has finally been able to realize how far he has come from when we first met him at the beginning of the book. He is able to look back and see a definite change and know that he is better now and this gives him peace of mind.
Period 5
"So I used to try not to get in too deep, for fear I'd get lost and turn up at the Schock Shop door. I looked hard at anything that came into sight and hung on like a man in a blizzard hangs on a fence rail. But they kept making the fog thicker and thicker, and it seemed to me that, no matter how hard I tried, two or three times a month I found myself with that door opening in front of me to the acid smell of sparks and ozone. In spite of all I could do, it was getting tough to keep from getting lost.(117-118)
I chose this exerpt because I can picture Chief looking around at what he thinks is fog. I can also picture a man holding on to a fencepost during a blizzard. When I was little we were coming home from one of my sister's basketball tournaments and we had to pull over to the side of the road because we were in a blizzard. I remember seeing cars all over the ditch. I remember walking outside in it for fun with my sister and not being able to see my hand in front of my face. I think this is what it is like for Chief he can't see his own hand in front of himself because of the fog. I can also smell the odor of the sparks because in Griese's welding class I too had sparks flying all around me.
(5)
All this morning I been waiting for them to fog us in again. The last few days they been doing it more and more. It’s my idea they’re doing it on account of McMurphy. They haven’t got him fixed with controls yet, and they’re trying to catch him off guard. They can see he’s due to be a problem; half a dozen times already he’s roused Cheswick and Harding and some of the others to where it looked like they might actually stand up to on of the black boys-but always, just the same it looked like the patient might be helped, the fog would start, it’s starting now.
We’ve already passed this point in the book and looking back on it, it shows some foreshadowing. Chief is so used to the for it almost seems as if it is a comfort to him. He is waiting for the fog and it isn’t coming. Even though at times he is scared of the fog like when it takes him off the ground it seems to be what he is used to. The fog is what he is programmed to see and is part of why he is in this ward. Something very dramatic had to happen in Chiefs past that caused him to see this fog. In Chiefs eyes he has no control over the fog although I think that he does and I think that this excerpt shows that everyone is expected to be programmed if they are to stay on this ward. The staff tries to present fear into the patients in the ward telling them that if they don’t behave that they will be up upstairs in the disturbed ward.
7
"I slide from between the sheets and walked barefoot across the cold tile between the beds. I felt the tile with my foot and wondered how many times, how many thousand times, had I run a mop over this same tile floor and never felt it at all. That mopping seemed like a dream to me, like I couldn't exactly believe all those years of it had really happened. Only that cold linoleum under my foot was realy right then, only that moment."(pg 141) This excert shows us how much Chief is getting better. With the help of McMurphy showing him that he can stand up for himself. Cheifs is finaly waking up and having some self confidence in himself. Cheif image of the fog is really just him hiding from everyone and ever since McMurphy came that fog is happening less and less. Cheif is no longer taking the medicane at night that puts him to sleep. Which is why he is able to wake up and walk around. As he tells us in the excert things are clear and he is seeing the world in a new perspective. He is becoming more sane with the help of McMurphy then the help of the Workers.
(5)
sorry i forgot to put the page
PAGE 118
pd. 1
page 87
"She listens a minute more to make sure she isn't hearing things; then she goes to puffing up. Her nostrils flare open, and every breath she draws she gets bigger, as big and tough-looking's I seen her get over a patient since Taber was here. She works the hinges in her elbows and fingers. I hear a small squeak. She starts moving, and I get back against the wall, and when she rumbles past she is already big as a truck, trailing that wicker bag behind in her exhaust like a semi behind a Jimmy Diesel. Her lips are parted, and her smile's going out before her like a radiator grill. I can smell the hot oil and magneto spark when she goes past, and every step hits the floor she blows up a size bigger, blowing and puffing, roll down anything in her path! I am scared to think what she'll do."
This excerpt provides excellent detail of her mechanical ways. I can picture Nurse Ratched with hinges and acting like a robot. This helps me visualize how incredibly large she really is. I think of the Nurse big and puffy rolling anyone in her path just like the big stone ball rolling towards Indiana Jones in the movie "Indiana Jones" that threatens to stop him in his path. This excerpt gave me insight and knowledge of how Nurse Ratched really is. She is very mechanical and this helps me see that.
"Buddy, don't give me that tender little mother crap. She may be a mother, but she's as big as a damn barn and tough as knife metal. She fooled me with that kindly little old mother bit for maybe three minutes when I cam in this morning, but no longer. I don't think she's really folled any of you guys for any six months or a year, neither. Hooowee, I've seen some bitches in my time, bu she takes the cake"
This remindes me of a conartist. Some one who acts like they are helping you, but they are actually trying to hurt you. I think this is what Nurse Ratched is doing to all of these people. She is trying to act like she is helping these people but she is acutally trying to hurt them to keep them in the hospital.
Period 7
1.
...I hear McMurphy out there in the latrine as I come out of the covers. Hear him singing! Singing so you'd think he didn't have a worry in the world. His voice is clear and strong and slapping up against the cement and steel.
"'Your horses are hungry that's what she did say.'" He's enjoying the way the sound rings in the latrine. "'Come sit down beside me, an' feed them some hay.'" He gets a breath, and his voice jumps a key, gaining pitch and power till it's joggling the wiring in all the walls. "'My horses ain't hungry, they won't eat your hay-ay-aeee.'" He holds the note and plays with it, then swoops down the the rest of the verse to finish it off. "'So fare-thee-well, darlin', I'm gone on my way.'"
Singing! Everybody's thunderstruck. They haven't heard such a thing in years, not on this ward.
2.
I really love this passage because everybody is so astonished for McMurphy to be singing at all, let alone this early in the morning. The environment in the ward is so solemn and depressing, it's practically a crime to be loud or have any fun. But there McMurphy is, livening the place up with every ounce of his being. He will do his absolute best to add excitement and spontaneity to the dull lives that these mental patients lead. Nobody can believe what's going on, and I think that that alone gives McMurphy the energy to finish his song. He actually gets louder as the song goes on and I can just hear his obnoxious voice that early in the morning.
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"Ten minutes to one the fog dissolves completely and the black boys are tell in Acutes to clear the floor for the meeting. All the tables are carried out of the day room to the tub room across the hall-leaves, the floor, McMurphy says, like we was aiming to have us a little dance." (42)
I chose this excerpt cause I thought that it made an excellent picture in my mind. I immediately pictured the black boys just standing there telling other people what to do, and not do anything themselves. I also thought of at a typical wedding that I have attended, after everybody is done eating their meal at the reception, the tables are all cleared and the men that are present all get up and fold up all the tables and move them out of the way to create a dance floor. Even though it's not extremely descriptive, I got a really vivid mental picture in my mind with this exerpt.
"Right at your balls. No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she isi is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes-people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst. You never been kneed in the nuts in a brawl, buddy? Stops you cold, don't it? There's nothing worse. It makes you sick, it saps every bit of strength you got. If you're up against a guy who wants to win by making you weaker instead of making himself stronger, the watch for his knee, he's gonna go for your vitals. And that's what that old buzzard is doing, going for your vitals."
As I went back and read this I instantly thought back to the blog we did in class today about conformity. Her so called "ball-cutting" techniques remind me of school. We have to do everything by the rules, and by a schedule. We have limited options, we are told this is the way things are and this is the way they will be. Nurse Ratched runs the mental institution her way, and her way only. If she is second guessed there could be some pretty serious consequences; just like if we second guess our authority figures, we could have some severe consequences.
Pd.7
"Harding is a flat, nervous man with a face that sometimes makes you think you seen him in the movies, like it’s a face too pretty to just be a guy on the street. He’s got wide, thin shoulders and he curves them in around his chest when he’s trying to hide inside himself. He’s got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he’s got pretty hands(23).
I choose this excerpt because it helps me visualize the appearance of Harding. He is described so vividly on his appearance but also it shows us another feature. It tells us that even though he might seem like this rough and tough guy he is not. When actually he is a very nervous, low key, and shy kind of person. It is a little weird I think that he would be bothered to have pretty hands. How do you classify pretty hands? Wouldn’t you rather have pretty hands, then ugly hands?
Pd 5.
(page 130)
But this time when I tap at the door and the Big Nurse looks through the peephole she looks dead at me, and she takes longer than ordinary unlocking that door to let me in. Her face has come back into shape, strong as ever, it seems to me. Everybody else goes ahead spooning sugar in their coffee and borrowing cigarettes, the way they do before every meeting, be there's a tenseness in the air. I think it's because of me at first. Then I notice that the Big Nurse hasn't even sat down, hasn't even bothered to get herself a cup of coffee.
I choose this because it's like Bromden just walked into a nightmare. The Big Nurse really is upset that everyone just made fun of her for not doing anything and watching her not know what to do. She doesn't even have her usual coffee with everyone else in the meeting and she takes her time letting Bromden in to do his usual cleaning in the room. She's letting it get to her and it's showing its tearing her up on the inside. McMurphy is winning and everyone knows it.
"Some mornings- Mondays especially- I hide and try to buck the schedule. Other mornings I figure it's cagier to step right into place between A and C in the alphabet and move the route like everybody else, without lifting my feet- powerful magnets in the floor maneuver personnel through the ward like arcade puppets...."(33)
I chose this except because I am fully, completely and utterly against Mondays. I can picture exactly his morning like mine. (literary device = imagery) I know how he feels. I wake up on Mondays being the biggest pessimist known to man-kind. (I know I should be doing the opposite, but..) I will do anything to get out of everything. I slack the most on Mondays, and I feel that everything is out to get me! My Mondays never go right, or just like I want them to. Whereas other weekdays, I am a living schedule. I wake up, go to school, take a nap, go to dance, sometimes go to work, go home, do homework, and sleep. Just like Chief between letters A-C conforming to a routined life. Simple as that.
5
"The first hand that comes up, I can tell, is McMurphy's, because he tried to lift. And then off down the slope I see them, other hands coming up out of the fog. It's like... that big red hand of McMurphy's is reaching into the foga dn dropping down and dragging the men up by their hands, dragging them blinking into the open. First one, then another, then the next. Right on down the line of Acutes, dragging them out of the fog till there they stand, all twenty of them, raising not just for watching TV, but against the Big Nurse, against her trying to send McMurphy to Disturbed, against the way she's talked and acted and beat them down for years.(124)
I really like this excerpt. I think that it really shows how Chief can imagine things in different ways. I can see how Chief sees McMurphy pulling the Acutes out of the fog to see what is really going on around the ward. McMurphy tries to pull the Acutes up and unite them against Nurse Ratched. He wants them to see what Nurse Ratched has been doing to them. McMurphy wants to challeng her.
Period 3
"Before noontime they're at the fog machine again but they haven't got it turned up full; it's not so thick but what I can see if I strain real hard. One of these days I'll quit straining and let myself go completely, lose myself in the fog the way some of the other Chronics have.(42)
I chose this excerpt because it looks like Chief is seeing like a dream. Like on a movie or tv show when they go to a dream it is foggy and they are trying to go focus in and see what is going on. It also reminds me of someone trying to hide from a problem but wanting to get out to see what is happening but is scared. Thoughout the book Chief always talks about this fog that he goes into and I believe he goes into it to get way and trys to think it is all a dream but can never escape the dream.
Pd 1
“A pecking party? I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend. I have not the slightest inclination what you’re talking about.” “Why then, I’ll just explain it to you.” McMurphy raises his voice: though he doesn’t look at each other Acutes listening behind him, it’s them he’s talking to. “The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin’ at a spot of blood on some chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock get spotted in the fracas, then its their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a pecking party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it- with chickens- is to clip blinders on them. So’s they cant see”
I choose this excerpt because I can picture chickens fighting with each other trying to battle out things. My grandpa had a chicken coop and I can always remember watching the chickens fight and having to split them up. When Harding is talking about his wife the other guys just keep trying to blame him like he is the weakest link. Although he is not the weakest link they keep attacking him as does doc. When people constantly harp on you about something you may finally give in and I think that Harding just is starting to give up that it wasn’t his fault. Harding wants to and should believe his wife cheating on him wasn’t his fault but when people are on you like a “pecking party” you sometimes just give in.
period 1
pg. 43
"Now. At the close of Friday's meeting. . .we were discussing Mr. Harding's problem. . .concerning his young wife. He had stated that his wife was extremely well endowed in the bosom and that this made him uneasy because she drew stares from men on the street." She starts opening to places in the log book; little slips of paper stick out of the top of the book to mark the pages. "According to the notes listed by various patients in the log. Mr. Harding has been heard to say that she 'damn well gives the bastards reason to stare.' He has also been heard to say that he may give her reason to seek further sexual attention."
The Big Nurse is like Orochimaru from the show, "Naruto". This excerpt reminds of him. Orochimaru twists peoples' emotions into making them do what he wants or his own amusment! Nurse Ratched does the same thing! She interigates Mr. Harding and twists his emotions so he will crack under pressure! That makes me angry! Orochimaru twists emotions like with Sasuke. He says he will give Sasuke power to kill his older brother, who killed his clan and family, if Sasuke follows him! How cruel is that!! Then again, Sasuke was sooo stupid into doing it! Anyway, Nurse Ratched knew that somebody would crack during the meeting. Which I think it was Pete. However, he just cracked because he's "tired". It's hard to believe that there might be people out there who do twist emotions just to hurt people even more.
Period 1
"It’s getting hard to locate my bed at night, have to crawl around on my hands and knees feeling underneath the springs till I find my gobs of gum stuck there. Nobody complains about all the fog. I know why, now: as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That’s what McMurphy can’t understand, us wanting to be safe. He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out in the open where we’d be easy to get at." (114)
I chose this section because of the excellent imagery that it provides. He makes it easy to picture Chief crawling around on his hands and knees searching in the “fog” for his bed. You can see him feeling around for the gobs of gum aimlessly. Chief Bromden also states that McMurphy is trying to drag them out of the fog, where they are easy targets for Nurse Ratched. Kesey does phenomenal work with imagery.
Pd.1
"He talks a little the way Papa used to, voice loud and full of hell, but he doesn't look like Papa; Papa was a full-blooded Columbia Indian-a chief-and hard and shiny as a gunstock. This guy is redheaded with long red sideburns and a tangle of curls out from under his cap, been needing cut a long time, and he's broad as Papa was tall, broad across the jaw and shoulders and chest, a broad white devilish grin, and he's hard in a different kind of way from Papa."(16)
I chose this excerpt because it sticks out in my mind like a sore thumb. I can visualize McMurphy in my mind just as the way the author explains his character and body. You can see how he talks without watching the movie and you can picture his red head clearly just as if he was in front of you now! No wonder everybody is intimidating from McMurphy he is intimidating figure like Chase Douglass! Ken describes McMurphy as broad across the shoulders and neck with a devilish grin. Similar to the song that goes, "Kind of broad at the shoulders and narrow at the hide, stood 6'6, weighed 245. Almost as if Chase was being described by the Argus Leader.
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period 3
Sorry I'm a couple hours late.
"I see papa come loping out of a draw and slow up to try and take aim at a big six-point buck springing off through the cedars. Shot after shot puffs out of the barrel, knocking dust all around the buck. I come out of the draw behind Papa and bring the buck down with my second shot just as it starts climbing the rimrock. I grin at Papa" (122)
I chose this because it gives excellent imagery on how he went out and shot a buck when his papa's shot miss it. I think it'd be very intense to go out and shoot the buck after someone else missed it, especially someone he has great respect to. I could see chief feeling all confident about himself afterwards. He did something that his papa couldn't do anymore.
Alex W's, before due date/time:
[Excellent, Alex--because the dog is a metaphor for Chief. The dog is a metaphor too, when it runs over the hill and may/may not be struck by the car, whose headlights Chief sees. This could be symbolic of nature (dog) running into progress/development/technology (car).]
My comment was over an excerpt from page 142 when the dog was outside and below the window chief was looking out. I thought it used clever imagery and just fit my mental imagine of the hospital. A "gangly" runaway mutt outside of the hospital just makes you view the ward a little different. The passage also talks about how the dog is wandering around at night "to find out about things went on after dark". I then related it to chief because he was doing the same thing as the dog was wandering around and being drawn to the window by the "taste" of the air.
Period 1.
"The first one she gets five years after I been on the ward, a twisted sinewy dwarf the color of cold asphalt. His mother was raped in Georgia while his papa stood by tied to the hot iron stove with plow traces, blood streaming into his shoes. The boy watched from the closet, five years old and squinting his eye to pee out the crack between the door and the jamb, and he never grew an inch after. Now his eyelids hang loose and thin from his brow like he’s got a bat perched on the bridge of his nose. Eyelids like thin grey leather, he lifts them up just a bit whenever a new white man comes on the ward, peeks out from under them and studies the man up and down and nods just once like he’s oh yes made positive certain of something he was already sure of."
I chose this excerpt from the book for a couple of reasons. The first reason would be that it shows that Nurse Ratched likes hiring poor broken people as her help so that they won’t try and give her a rough time, it shows us how cruel some people’s lives can be and makes us appreciate how our lives are a little more. It also helps to understand why the “black boys” might act a certain way towards the patients, who are mostly white.
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