Nursery Rhyme

When the Chief goes through ETC towards the end of the book he is conscious and describes his old life and his mom. I found it quite interesting and also disturbing that parts of his passage were turned into a nursery rhyme for kids:

"Tingle, ting-le, tang-le toes, she's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts 'em inna pens...wire blier, limber lock, three geese in a 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." 

It is interesting that the end talks about plucking you out of the cuckoo's nest. It is like the child should not be in the nest and needs to be taken away. The ward can be seen as the nest here (an unsettling and scary place). The goose is the savior in the song and helps free the kid who is stuck in the nest.

The Chief is a disturbed man and his memories of his mom come up while he is being electrocuted in a mental ward. This subject does not sound very child friendly or nursery rhyme-esque to me. If I knew the context of this song I would not be singing this to my kids to get them to go to bed. 

-Shira