Blogging Notes

Blogging Notes

1. Personal liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest seems to involve overcoming yourself and figuring out who you really are.
2. Ratched is often viewed as something bda that is out of ordinary in a not so good way. Nurse Ratched is viewed the same in the novel. Her name is pretty ironic.
3. Women were making a name for themselves in this time period and it showed.
4. There are a lot of hints at racism, but it’s not full blown or anything like that.
5. He’s like the leader in the book, just like Christ is a leader in life. He also talks about a crown of thorn, which Jesus had. Comparing himself in a subtle way?
6. The patients in the mental hospital rebel against Nurse Ratched, the lady in charge, much like Americans were rebelling against the laws and regulations.
7. It gives insight to what his character is like. The parallels is that both communism and liberalism need to end and people just need to live in unity.
8. Chief Broom has a lot of conlictions as a narrator. His mind is kind of scattered, but I guess overall he would be reliable. Indian plays into his name and character. He thinks the combine will save everyone.
9. Both have to deal with thoughts and the mind and how it works.
10. Hippies used a lot of drugs that were involved with the book and none of them seemed to be concerned about the effects that the drugs would have  on their bodies.
11. It can be used as like, a motivational took on how to break free from society.
13. The patients all try to have a democracy and have a voice, but they’re completely shut down by Nurse Ratched.
14. Chaos interferes and stops a lot from happening.
15. It shows that his character is willing to take chances.
16. A machine.
17. Liberation is portrayed when Nurse Ratched doesn’t think the patients are ready to leave the ward, but they do anyway. They’re rebelling against her.
18. When his character appears to be kind of out of it.
19. It was a theme because it went from never happening at all to happening a whole bunch, so it shows change.
20. “The loonies” take the time to think about everything, and analyze things in a way that “sane” people don’t take the time to do, and on a level that we wouldn’t even comprehend. I think insanity is the only response, because if something is out of the ordinary, it’s marked as crazy. Labeling came immediately without justification or explanation. It was all ridiculous.
21. I think to best reform society, you have to understand it and how it works first.
22. Imagery, similes, hyperboles, and metaphors are all very popular throughout the novel. It really enables the reader to go more in-depth with the whole story.