Shehryar Khan
Mrs. Windsor
CP English 11, period 6
6 March 2015
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The book, “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” by Ken Kesey, is told in perspective of a patient inside of an insane asylum. One of the characters, Chief Bromden, is a patient who does the most to be left alone. A great change came to the asylum as McMurphy, a prisoner who was looking to get out of jail, arrives. Ken Kesey writes the story in perspective of Bromden’s observations of McMurphy. He pretends to be deaf and is treated as a janitor just to avoid conversation with others. Specifically in chapter 17, he writes a passage in which Bromden is looking out an open window and describing what he sees. The tone of this chapter shows reader what …show more content…
He has full faith in him and knows the Big Nurse, no matter how hard she tries, can’t break him. Although McMurphy hasn’t been at the ward for long, Bromden and all the patients can see the change he’s brought. When Bromden says “He’s what he is, that’s it”, he’s explaining that McMurphy is someone so new and different that he doesn’t even know how to find the words to describe him. Bromden believes that McMurphy is the reason that he’s seeing everything about the ward in a new light, and that he will be able to transform the ward into better …show more content…
She’s their leader; the one who makes all the rules that all the patient are expected to follow. Bromden repeatedly describes the Big Nurse as robotic and subtly oppressive, and writes that she uses manipulation to keep control over her patients. Also looking at the geese, McMurphy see’s a dog under the flying geese. The dog is also symbolic for the patients because Bromden notices that the asylum is in the country-side in the middle of nowhere. The passage that begins with “On night…” is important because it depicts the first time Bromden has ever actually noticed anything around the ward. He describes even simplest things in great detail, which shows how sheltered the Big Nurse has kept them all of these years. Bromden who has been there the longest and experienced the most with the nurse seems to be thinking about how it feels to be free as he stands by the window. The way he says, “The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon…I watched the big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to shame…” is a metaphor for the patients in the ward always being stuck so close to
Mrs. Windsor
CP English 11, period 6
6 March 2015
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The book, “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” by Ken Kesey, is told in perspective of a patient inside of an insane asylum. One of the characters, Chief Bromden, is a patient who does the most to be left alone. A great change came to the asylum as McMurphy, a prisoner who was looking to get out of jail, arrives. Ken Kesey writes the story in perspective of Bromden’s observations of McMurphy. He pretends to be deaf and is treated as a janitor just to avoid conversation with others. Specifically in chapter 17, he writes a passage in which Bromden is looking out an open window and describing what he sees. The tone of this chapter shows reader what …show more content…
He has full faith in him and knows the Big Nurse, no matter how hard she tries, can’t break him. Although McMurphy hasn’t been at the ward for long, Bromden and all the patients can see the change he’s brought. When Bromden says “He’s what he is, that’s it”, he’s explaining that McMurphy is someone so new and different that he doesn’t even know how to find the words to describe him. Bromden believes that McMurphy is the reason that he’s seeing everything about the ward in a new light, and that he will be able to transform the ward into better …show more content…
She’s their leader; the one who makes all the rules that all the patient are expected to follow. Bromden repeatedly describes the Big Nurse as robotic and subtly oppressive, and writes that she uses manipulation to keep control over her patients. Also looking at the geese, McMurphy see’s a dog under the flying geese. The dog is also symbolic for the patients because Bromden notices that the asylum is in the country-side in the middle of nowhere. The passage that begins with “On night…” is important because it depicts the first time Bromden has ever actually noticed anything around the ward. He describes even simplest things in great detail, which shows how sheltered the Big Nurse has kept them all of these years. Bromden who has been there the longest and experienced the most with the nurse seems to be thinking about how it feels to be free as he stands by the window. The way he says, “The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon…I watched the big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to shame…” is a metaphor for the patients in the ward always being stuck so close to