Crazy or not so crazy?

I found that it was the most interesting for me when they got onto the boat and caught fish, they were drinking, and there was a small fist fight. It kept me glued to find out how they were going to get on and what the police were going to do. Although when McMurphay offers to make Bromden big again with his special body-building course, he offered that he would pay for all his fishing trip fees as long as he could lift the control panel in the tub room. I’m confused onto why he had to life the panel? What are they going to do with it...? I also find that McMurphay is very... out there with his “sexual life” it disturbs me when he talks about what he did when they went back to his old home and found a piece of cloth in the tree. He explains that it was a part of the dress that the girl gave to him as a prize! This happened when he was ten... its disgusting cause not only he was ten but the girl was younger than him by a few years.

This part I can relate to very easily with my life because my brother Chris is a professional body builder/trainer and he is actually Mr. National (just thought I would mention that) he has won many competitions. My brother always tries to get me to train and he bribes me with things just like McMurphay did to Bromden. Also it’s kind of irrelevant but the boat scene when they catch fish reminds me of fishing in Newfoundland with my family...

To relate this part of the book to the world I would relate it to some really psycho people, and in a way we all have something crazy about us, but not everyone has a conscious.  McMurphay’s just a little crazy about young women... and even though it’s not okay in society at a certain age, some people don’t care what society thinks and they do what they want. Like raping, killing, bullying, anything really. It doesn’t matter to them as long as they are happy. And I can see this relating to this part of the book because it really shows some of these characteristics in McMurphay.  He bribes Bromden, he tells us the story of the girl back home and even though Bromden says he seen his face looked “dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there was not enough time left for something he had to do.” I don’t think he really cares about what happened... do you?

Do you agree?

Relating part two of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest to the world, I relate this to my book I’m reading now. I’m reading the book called Girl Interrupted in this book the girl gets put into an asylum and she sees many patients who have done crazy things to be put in there like one girl poured gasoline over her body and lit herself on fire to try and kill herself. Another part in this book she hears people screaming. The reason I relate this to One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is because I feel that when I’m reading this that McMurphay is like the girl who burned herself. They are both “crazy”! I also feel that when I’m reading One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest I can envision things happening and see the characters, the patients walking around, and all the horrible things happening!  Both themes of the two books are Mental Illnesses.

I feel that even though the book is Mental Illness that there are obviously other themes in the book like hidden messages that create different themes. For an example when he sees the Fog. He uses the Fog in my own opinion; to go to his “happy place”. Creating the theme of peace and happiness etc. Although he says that the Fog disappears that “someone turned the fog off”.  How is he supposed to go to his happy place when he is ready to burst or is feeling scared?  In the second part I feel that the tables start to turn with the Big Nurse and patients. This creating the theme of rebelling, do you agree?

To relate this to myself and my life would be like me being McMurphy and my Stepmom being Big Nurse.  You don’t really get much of a choice in anything, and you must do what she says or you get some sort of punishment. The only difference is I don’t live in an asylum and I do not get Electro shock therapy.  My punishments are doing chores and being grounded, and my groundings are rough I would say!  In my house when your grounded all you get to do is stay in your room and read and do educational things, no TV, no phone, no friends. I cannot even draw if I wanted. So if you think about it it’s kind of like being in an institution sort of! You do not get much of a choice and if you rebel your punishment gets worse and longer.  Personally I like that times have changed and you’re not allowed to hit your children cause I feel that there would be more crazy people in this world.

Insane in the membrane

Chief Bromden as we know went to the institution willingly he was not forced. Do you think he is actually insane or sane? I believe that in the institution the nurses/ doctors give drugs that are not really needed. In the novel and in the past when you didn’t accept taking the drug you were punished. You were given electro shock therapy or another sort of punishment. Now who is the one determining that you need these drugs or that you’re crazy? I believe that the drugs are really what enhance the patient to really become “insane” some drugs make you hallucinate and give you terrible after effects.  For example: Chief Bromden “see’s” fog.  Is that fog actually there or is he hallucinating because of the drugs.

                To relate to this novel to my life I will tell you about this time when I was 15! I was rushed to the hospital because they thought my appendix was about to burst. They had put me on morphine and that wasn’t helping the pain, so they gave me oxy’s to help. Because of the drugs I was on I was hallucinating, I could not walk straight because it looked like the floor was waves.  I told my stepmom that my bed was a boat and I sang nursery rhymes to her with the wrong words, but the same beat.  My point to this story is that if I was not in the hospital and on these drugs and I had told random people that the floor in the hospital was moving like waves and my bed was a boat, people wouldn’t take me serious or would say I was crazy.  Giving people drugs can help with pain yes, but it’s going to enhance certain patient’s problems. That’s my opinion of that situation.

                On another topic I think that helping the patients should not be the same schedule every day, they should have something different like normal people. Yeah you may have certain routines but you never have a day the exact same as a day in your past.  Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again expecting something different? Well doing that isn’t going to help the patients.

                Connecting to the world: I can connect the novel to the movie shutter island. In the movie the main character believes he isn’t insane and he is there for a reason on a mission, and in the novel Chief Bromden goes to the institution for no reason, and by the time the main character from Shutter Island leaves he is crazy. I predict that Chief Bromden will be in the same situation when he or if he leaves this hospital.