One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Essays (1289 words) -

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest In, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", the main character is Randle P McMurphy. He sort of comes off as a New York tuff guy. In my opinion McMurphy is a hustler, considering his gambling and how he's always trying to manipulate other patients to his benefit. Chief Bromden is a six foot eight, half bread Indian. For years, Chief, "as McMurphy calls him", has fooled the staff and patients in the ward into thinking that he's deaf and dumb. Though it was by accident, McMurphy is the first person that Chief has spoken to in years. Throughout the book, Chief seems to open up to McMurphy more and more, inch by inch. Big Nurse is a picky b**ch. On the outside, she's always smiling, but inside she's full of hate. The biggest reason she despises McMurphy is because he threatens her perfect little world. " She must be a Jap". Knowledge #2 (5 points each) One important event is the vote held on the viewing of the World Series. McMurphy had actually won the vote, but still wasn't able to view the World Series because of a technicality brought to attention by Big Nurse. McMurphy didn't get to watch the game, but in a sense still won, sense he had influenced the patients to actually vote against Big Nurse. Another important event is the fishing trip. Big Nurse strongly disapproved the trip, and she showed it. She posted newspaper clippings of bad weather reports and tragedies at sea, right next to the sign up sheet for the trip. Despite the fear that some of the patients felt, they went right ahead and signed up. "Another victory for McMurphy!" The beginning of the party is somewhat important. It's an example of McMurphy's manipulating capabilities. Though Mr.Turkle knew he could get fired, McMurphy was able to talk him into letting Candy Girl and Sandy into the ward. Billy's tragic death is very important in understanding just what kind of effect Big Nurse had on the patients psychologically. In reality, Billy didn't do anything wrong, and shouldn't have been criticized by Big Nurse. But in Big Nurse's perfect little world, it seemed to be forbidden and disgraceful. Big Nurse threatened to tell Billy's mother, "who she was close friends with", what he had done. Instead of suffering through that , which seemed to be a living hell, Billy got out of it the only way he knew of. Billy grabbed a tool out of a drawer and slit his own throat. He decided to take his own life, in fear of what Big Nurse would do. One last event is McMurphy's death. Outraged by the acts committed by McMurphy, Big Nurse decided to do surgery on him. During McMurphy's absence from the ward, rumors went around that he had in fact escaped. When McMurphy was finally returned to his bed, Chief was reassured of his relationship with him. Chief Knew he wouldn't leave without him. As Chief spoke to him, he noticed there was no response to anything he says. McMurphy was a vegetable!! Rather than allowing McMurphy to suffer like that, Chief decided McMurphy would still escape with him. Chief put a pillow over the head of McMurphy's corpse and put all of his weight on top, until the vegetable stopped struggling. Then, with all his strength, Chief lifted the control panel and hurled it through the window screen, and made his escape. Comprehension #5 (10 points each) In , "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", the main problem is Big Nurse's selfish, egotistical, narrow minded views. When McMurphy threatened Big Nurse's traditional ways, she just couldn't take it. She would go to just about any lengths to stop this radical. Comprehension #6 (10 points each) If the story had one last chapter, I predict it would just describe everything going back to how it was before McMurphy entered the scene. Without McMurphy there, encouraging the patients to think for themselves, Big Nurse would become a despot, once again. As time goes on, the memory of McMurphy would eventually fade away, completely. The only person who would remember him is Chief, who has taken residence in Canada. Comprehension #7 (10 points each) The main character, McMurphy, didn't exactly admire Big Nurse. Besides being a b**ch, she was a monarch. Everything was done when and where Big Nurse said it was to be done. McMurphy wasn't use to having everything done a certain way, continuously. Big Nurse didn't even allow McMurphy do something