One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest

Front 1

But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.- Randle McMurphy

Back 1

this is important because he thinks living in the asylum is making them crazier then they actually are

Front 2

First Charles Cheswick and now William Bibbit! I hope you're finally satisfied. Playing with human lives - gambling with human lives - as if you thought yourself to be a God!- nurse ratchet

Back 2

she is saying this to randle, because he is trying to make life enjoyable for the people living there, but it never ends up the right way because he does not realize the full problems these people have

Front 3

I watched and tried to figure out what he would have done. I was only sure of one thing: he wouldn't have left something like that sit there in the day room with his name tacked on it for twenty or thirty years so the Big Nurse could use it as an example of what can happen if you buck the system. I was sure of that.
Chief Boredom

Back 3

this is important because he makes the decision to kill randle because Nurse ratchet gave randle Lobotomy

Front 4

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?- chief boredom

Back 4

this has signifagance because chief boredom suffers from hallucinations and believes the people he sees are real

Front 5

They're out there.
Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.- chief boredom

Back 5

this commenting on how they get abused in asylums

Front 6

"Well, screw you and 'what do you think?' I've got worries of my own without getting hooked with yours. So just quit!" He glares around the library at the other patients. "Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!"
- Randle

Back 6

randle is talking about how he is tired of doing things for everyone in the hospital and he needs to start worrying about himself

Front 7

You think I wuh-wuh-wuh-want to stay in here? You think I wouldn't like a con-con-vertible and a guh-guh-girl friend? But did you ever have people l-l-laughing at you? No, because you're so b-big and so tough! Well, I'm not big and tough.- billy bibbit

Back 7

he is saying this to randle becausse randle does not realize the hard liffe that billy has had and he needs to understand

Front 8

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 the baseball game clear as day, and she's ranting and screaming behind us. If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year-old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.- Chief Boredom

Back 8

this is funny because they actually are crazy

Front 9

They don't bother not talking out loud about their hate secrets when I'm nearby because they think I'm deaf and dumb. Everybody thinks so. I'm cagey enough to fool them that much. If my being half Indian ever helped me in any way in this dirty life, it helped me being cagey, helped me all these years.- chief Boredom

Back 9

this is important because everyone everyone thinks chief is the craziest and he really is not crazy at all

Front 10

"Is this the usual pro-cedure for these Group Ther'py shindigs? Bunch of chickens at a peckin' party?"
- Randle

Back 10

this is important because he is saying that the therapy sessions are just another way to put the patients down

Front 11

As I walked after them it came to me as a kind of sudden surprise that I was drunk, actually drunk, glowing and grinning and staggering drunk for the first time since the Army, drunk along with half a dozen other guys and a couple of girls-right on the Big Nurse's ward! Drunk and running and laughing and carrying on with women square in the center of the Combine's most powerful stronghold! I thought back on the night, on what we'd been doing, and it was near impossible to believe. I had to keep reminding myself that it had truly happened, that we had made it happen. We had just unlocked a window and let it in like you let in the fresh air. Maybe the Combine wasn't all-powerful. What was to stop us from doing it again, now that we saw we could? Or keep us from doing other things we wanted?- chief boreddom

Back 11

this represents how since randle got to the hospital security has been down and everything has been more fun

Front 12

This morning I plain don't remember. They got enough of those things they call pills down me so I don't know a thing till I hear the ward door open.- chief boredom

Back 12

this is showing how they dont have any freedom and the nurses will doing anything to calm patients down

Front 13

Our intention, he usually ends by saying, is to make this as much like your own democratic, free neighborhoods as possible-a little world Inside that is a made-to-scale prototype of the big world Outside that you will one day be taking your place in again.- bchief boredom

Back 13

its explaining how the people in the hospital are just someones expierement and they are not part of the real world

Front 14

"Sure!" It's Billy, turned from the screen, his face boiling tears. "Sure!" he screams again. "If we had the g-guts! I could go outside to-today, if I had the guts. My m-m-mother is a good friend of M-Miss Ratched, and I could get an AMA signed this afternoon, if I had the guts!"-billy bibbit

Back 14

this showing how most people in the asylum are there voluntarily and randle has to be there

Front 15

"Right here, Doc. The nurse left this part out while she was summarizing my record. Where it says, 'Mr. McMurphy has evidenced repeated'-I just want to make sure I'm understood completely, Doc-'repeated outbreaks of passion that suggest the possible diagnosis of psychopath.' He told me that 'psychopath' means I fight and fuh-pardon me, ladies-means I am he put it overzealous in my sexual relations. Doctor, is that real serious?"
-randle

Back 15

this is showing how nurse ratched is making things up about randle because she doesnt like him

Front 16

And the third boy mutters, "Of course, the very nature of this plan could indicate that he is simply a shrewd con man, and not mentally ill at all."
work man

Back 16

this is showing that the workers have caught on to randle

Front 17

"You men are in this hospital," she would say like she was repeating it for the hundredth time, "because of your proven inability to adjust to society. The doctor and I believe that every minute spent in the company of others, with some exceptions, is therapeutic, while every minute spent brooding alone only increases your separation."

"Is that the reason that there has to be at least eight guys together before they can be taken off the ward to OT or PT or one of them Ts?"

"That is correct."

"You mean it's sick to want to be off by yourself?"

"I didn't say that-"

"You mean if I go into latrine to relieve myself I should take along at least seven buddies to keep me from brooding on the can?"
conversation

Back 17

this is showing that the men in the hospital are right about somethings and nurse ratched is just supressing them from being normal

Front 18

"Against ward policy?"

"Tha's right."

"Tough luck"-and peels three bananas right under the black boy's nose and eats one after the other, tells the boy that any time you want one snuck outa the mess hall for you, Sam, you just give the word.

Back 18

this is showing that randle does not follow rules because he is actually sane