Sunday, January 6, 2013
The Chief
This is just something small that I was thinking about while reading. I think that McMurphy coming to the ward was possibly the best thing that could have happened for the Chief because due to his arrival, the Chief believes that he is big and strong again. Also, if McMurphy hadn't been put in the ward, the Chief would not have started talking to the other patients, and I think that this is an important thing to help the Chief begin to recover.
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Yes, I agree. McMurphy was the best thing to come to the ward for not just the Chief, but also for the other patients. McMurphy got Harding to stop acting and be himself more than before. I think he also helped Billy when he brought Candy on the fishing trip.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you. I think that McMurphy brought something to the ward that made the other patients feel they were entitled to some small amount of power even if that power was just to be themselves, rather than the people the combine prefered them as. My question is this; What about McMurphy is it that motivated the other patients and brought about such change? Is it his utter defiance of the combine, his light sense of humor, refusal to take things seriously, or something else?
ReplyDeleteAfter finishing the book, one line that stuck out to me was the one that the Nurse said after Billy's suicide. She said, "First Charles Cheswick and now William Bibbit! I hope you're finally satisfied. Playing with human lives-- gambling with human lives-- as if you thought yourself to be God!" It kind of caught off guard because until then, McMurphy had pretty much won me over, but that line made me realize that two lives had been lost because of McMurphy's clash with the Combine. Even though he freed all those Acutes from the ward, it was at the cost of two-ultimately three-lives.
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