Cuckoos Nest

Our English classroom is a house of learning and education. Our classmates are the brothers and sisters we have to be with for an hour and a half 3 days a week and learn together. Mrs. Brickey is the head of the household and the one that will teach us all that we need to know about a subject and will help us with our difficulties. The white board is a instruction book on what we are supposed to do at home every day and helps the family to be organized and know what is going on. Worksheets are the things that help us practice what we learn and make sure we understand our lessons fully.

2) Mr. McMurphy is the central and most interesting character in the entire novel. A passage that seems to describe him perfectly is when the narrator says, "While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top, spreading his laugh out across the water--laughing at the girl, the guys, at George, at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier and the bicycle rider and the service-station guys and the five thousand houses and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy" (p. 237). This passage really appeals to me because it shows that McMurphy is able to laugh at things that may hurt in order to not go crazy and he is able to teach this to the patients in the ward.

3) I came into the room for the meeting and sat down with the rest of the patients. Pete will not stop moaning about how tired he is. Nurse Ratched asks if someone will sit next to him to keep him quiet during the meeting and i volunteered. Nurse Ratched recaps on what we talked about in the last meeting and the new guy, McMurphy made a joke. Nurse starts to read McMurphys file to all of us. Nurse Ratched and Mr. McMurphy seem to have a lot of tension throughout the whole meeting. She is not able to control him like she controls the rest of us.

4) McMurphy has observed that the patients have been controlled for so long that they do not make any decisions for themselves. The process of giving the men their manhood back does not happen overnight. It is based on a series of events. They observe McMurphy stand up to Nurse Ratched and that he is able to get under her skin enough that it is appealing to them.

McMurphy basically teaches them that the world outside has great things to offer them versus the world inside. He gets them on an illegal outing fishing and does things with them that they would not undertake for themselves. Gradually, they begin to step out of their comfort zones. When McMurphy throws the party and sneaks women into the hospital as well as alcohol, Billy experiences a relationship for the first time. He feels confident and manly. Nurse Ratched is aware of Billy's psychological discomfort and trauma in relation to his interaction