Monday, November 3, 2008
Cukoos Nest
This book started off very confusing but after getting more into the book you realize what is going on. That mental institute kind of scared me. The things they did to the patients and how they treated them was unfair. I find it pretty crazy that he was able to write this book while on drugs. It enhances the all around plot of the book. When you think about it, if McMurpy did not come the institute you have think about how some of those men would have never gotten out. McMurpy opened the doors of the men to come out of the hidden personality. He gave them an opportunity and voice. I believed for the most part they did well with it. When they voted for the baseball game and for the basketball team. They went from scared people to more confident. McMurpy added life in the book, he taught the men more about life then I think the nurse was. Who do you think was the most important character in the book?
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I think that the most important character is McMurphy. He shows the other patients that they are not as crazy as they have been lead to believe, mostly by Nurse Ratched. They don't view McMurphy as another crazy person; they look up to him as someone who has lived in the "combine", the world outside the hospital. McMurphy is teaching them that no one is as perfect or 'normal' as Nurse Ratched is trying to make them. Without the presence of McMurphy in the hospital, many of the men never would have left. In a way it is ironic that in the real world, the patients are outsiders; but in the hospital, McMurphy is the outsider. He has a positive influence on the men and opened their eyes to all the things they can accomplish in the "combine". He shows them that life in the real world is not as bad as it seems from inside the "safe" walls of the hospital.
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