Friday, December 10, 2010

     Im reading the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. In this book the main character, Chief Bromden, a half indian son of a chief, is in a pschiatric ward run by nurse Ratched. it is a dull boring place until a new patient, McMurphy, arrives.
     In this story the world is viewed through the Chief's eyes. he can hear, but acts like he's a deaf mute. The fact that the Chief doesn't speak gives makes you feel as if you are actually in the story. And because he doen't really speak, you are a silent observer, a witness.
     Even though Kesey uses the Chief's inner voice to explains thing to you, you feel like you are a patient in the ward. This is furthered by the fact that the Cief has dreams and nightmares and visions. Because you feel like him, and he sees these things, you see them, too. And you feel the horror, and disgust of these visons. Some of these visons, though are memories. And thrugh thoe memories you feel the pain of what was lost and realize the logic of the Chief.
     Overall the fact that you're seeing the world through an inmate's eye's makes you see what is really going on in the ward, and you know how all the patient's feel. Nurse Ratched and her staff's view are mostly excluded. It's a good example of how an excluded view makes you see things a different way.

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