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?
Personally I do not think McMurphy is crazy. Some of the things he does is a little strange and different from what society accepts, but I think he is just a guy that gets what he wants and doesn’t think of the consequences. His language, attitude and things he does are things I have seen in other people, but I don’t assume them to be crazy, their just ‘different’ people. This novel takes place back in the 60s where if you didn’t fit in with society you were considered crazy. There are also a lot of patients in this novel that are not exactly people that need to be sheltered in a mental hospital but choose to stay there cause the outside worl d doesn’t want to deal with them or they themselves choose not to deal with the outside world. For example Harding doesn’t appear to be that out of place in society, he just has some issues, maily his wife, that he’d rather ignore by staying in the mental hospital. Many patients except for the chronics seem like they need to be in the hospital.
ReplyDeleteAs for McMurphy wanting the Chief to lift the panel, I think he either wants him to throw it through the window so that he can escape, which doesn’t make sense since McMurphy had plenty of chances to escape when they were on the fishing trip, with less of a risk than jumping out of a window. He may also want the Chief to lift the panel to show everyone that the Chief is not deaf and dumb like everyone has believed for so long. Why he wants everyone to know the Chief is not deaf and dumb... I have no idea, yet.