page 285/ August 1,2010
Quote #2
Quote:“Tingle, tingle, tangle toes, she’s a good fisherman, catches hen, puts ’em inna pens…wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock... one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest… O-U-T spells out… goose swoops down and plucks you out.”
These are the lyrics to the song that Bromden’s grandmother used to sing to him. They help to explain why the book was titled, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The lyric are one large metaphor that compares the geese to live in the ward. The geese represent the “higher” people in life (such as the Big Nurse or the Doctor). All the hens in this pen represent all of the people in the world. The few hens that are plucked out of this pen represent the patients. They were of the few that were chosen to be different from the rest. The goose plucked up the patients. The goose chooses the hens that flew over the cuckoo’s nest and these hens became different.
These are the lyrics to the song that Bromden’s grandmother used to sing to him. They help to explain why the book was titled, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The lyric are one large metaphor that compares the geese to live in the ward. The geese represent the “higher” people in life (such as the Big Nurse or the Doctor). All the hens in this pen represent all of the people in the world. The few hens that are plucked out of this pen represent the patients. They were of the few that were chosen to be different from the rest. The goose plucked up the patients. The goose chooses the hens that flew over the cuckoo’s nest and these hens became different.
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