The patients at the ward have no personality anymore, they had it taken away. They have become nearly lifeless and are living life as they are told.Sunday, July 11, 2010
Conformity
The patients at the ward have no personality anymore, they had it taken away. They have become nearly lifeless and are living life as they are told.
"You lose yourself in the fog"
page 137/July 11, 2010
Quote #1
Quote:“I’m further off than I’ve ever been. This is what it’s like to be dead. I guess this is what it’s like to be a Vegetable; you lose yourself in the fog. You don’t move. They feed your body till it finally stops eating; then they burn it. It’s not so bad. There’s no pain. I don’t feel much of anything other than a touch of chill I figure will pass in time.”
Chief Bromden had been in this state of fog for most of the day. He barely sees anything that had been going in the ward. He experiences this most of his days while in the hospital but they do not normally last this long. Chief Bromden is hallucinating about this fog but truthfully, it may as well be true with all the rules and regulations that are enforced in the ward. The patients are numb from the loud music, which prevents conversation, and the patients virtually are not allowed to think by themselves they are told what to think most of the time. They are corrected and punished if they refuse to change their minds. The fog they are in seems like it will never end to them. This quote represents the way the characters are feeling at the beginning of the novel before Randle McMurphy comes and helps to pull the patients out of this fog.
Chief Bromden had been in this state of fog for most of the day. He barely sees anything that had been going in the ward. He experiences this most of his days while in the hospital but they do not normally last this long. Chief Bromden is hallucinating about this fog but truthfully, it may as well be true with all the rules and regulations that are enforced in the ward. The patients are numb from the loud music, which prevents conversation, and the patients virtually are not allowed to think by themselves they are told what to think most of the time. They are corrected and punished if they refuse to change their minds. The fog they are in seems like it will never end to them. This quote represents the way the characters are feeling at the beginning of the novel before Randle McMurphy comes and helps to pull the patients out of this fog.
Randle McMurphy
page 98-130/ July 11, 2010
Reading Response #4
Randle McMurphy has one of the strongest personalities of all of the characters. He knows who he is and will not change to conform into what Nurse Ratched believes is the perfect patient. McMurphy is strong willed and tries to help the others stick up for themselves. When McMurphy and the other acute patients are in the old tub room they do not believe that Randle will or is able to pick up the cement control block. With his strong will and determination, McMurphy picks up the block and proves everyone wrong. McMurphy likes to prove people wrong when they do not think that they can do something. The others have placed bets against him in challenges and they have lost. When Randle first arrived to the ward he said that part of the reason, why he had transferred there was because he likes to win and he “needed new suckers” to win against. At the facility he was before he had won the bets, so many times that he had nearly taken all of the people’s money. I have begun to admire the courageousness and will power of Randle McMurphy. The other patients can look to him to help find their inner voice. I believe that he will influence the others and they will take action and stand up for what they want and believe in.
Dreams: Real or Fake
pages 65-97/ July 11, 2010
Reading Response #3
I wonder why Chief Bromden continually experiences “fog” like instances. Is this supposed to symbolize something and if so I wonder if it will be further explained later in the book. Chief Bromden explains this occurrence two or three times. Is he truly crazy or is something really going on behind the walls of this ward? The patients could be experiencing some type of abuse. However, these patients may have a distorted perception and are making “a mountain out of a molehill”. The Chief describes his dreams as if he had actually gone through these circumstances. I wonder, does Chief Bromden’s childhood involve an abusive household? In one of these dreams, he describes the ward transforming into a slaughterhouse. The character, “Vegetable Blastic” is hung upside down and skinned in Chief Bromden’s dream. These are very weird dreams to be having. I have begun to question if the Chief is truly crazy or if these dreams are foreshadowing what will come later.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Movie Trailer
Here is the link to the trailer for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe:
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Constant Routine
pages 33-64/ July 3, 2010
Reading Response #2
As I continue on in the book, Chief Bromden discusses the daily routine that all of the patients follow. Each day they do the same thing at the same time. There is barely ever any change. The only change that the patients in the ward experience is the change in faces of the outsider people that come to visit. The outsiders view these patients as if they are animals in a showcase at a zoo. This may be very degrading or upsetting to the patients in the ward. However, some of the patients are so disabled that they might not even realize this is happening. I would feel very disgusted if I were treated like this. The constant routine in the ward makes me feel sorry for the patients and it could possibly be a reason as to why many of the patients act out at times. I know that the patients are disabled but they should be able to experience new things within reasons. The patients have no say in anything that happens. They are not allowed to ask questions about subjects such as their medications without being yelled out by their superiors.
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