Lauren Crom Post 1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

This book is by far the most interesting writing style that I have ever come across.

"The Dalles" as mentioned on page 6 when Chief Bromden reminisced about his childhood days.  It is the third oldest city in Oregon (founded in 1857), and served as the ending point for the Oregon Trail.  In its early stages of a city, it was one of the Pacific Northwest's largest trade, commerce, and economical centers.  Now, it is just a pretty little town in Oregon.

It always amazes me how cruel people are to other people.  When Chief Bromden is illustrating how "they hold me down while she jams wicker bag and all into my mouth shoves it down with a mop handle" (Kesey 7).  Chief was drugged, as he writes in the next two paragraphs, and confirmed in the next section:  "When the fog clears to where I can see, I am siting in the day room" (Kesey 8).

I found the section where Kesey is embellishing on the Chronics and the Acutes.  I was trying to piece together which one the Chief would be in, and on page 15 it is said flat out:  "But there are some of us Chronics that the staff made a couple of mistakes on years back."  They make these people sick.  The "installations" that is talked about makes me sick to my stomach--how can you go through ones eye and change his brain?  Does the Chief really know that these people are the same people, or maybe they bring in a look-a-like and stick him in the mental ward just to see how he does?  You never know in the sick world of the Acutes and the Chronics.

The Chronics and the Acutes are sort of like the Hindu's and the Moslems in Freedom at Midnight, in the sense that they don't generally mingle with each other, however they live in the same place and look at one another.   In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, there is also a social hierarchy within this mental clinic.

We can tell the time period of this book because Eisenhower was mentioned several times, and the craziest of all the people are considered to vote for Eisenhower.  He was a Republican, and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1951.

It surprised me how Chief Bromden didn't' even make one action when the two men were prodding at him, and making fun of him.  I believe that this far into the story, he can hear, although the people in the Cuckoo's Nest seem to think that he is deaf.  Maybe it appears that he is not deaf because the Chief watches carefully every single person that is in the hospital.

Hate is the resounding theme throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest.  Hate reappears throughout the chapter, reappears because the Nurse wants the black aids and the doctors to hold so much inner hate within them that one day their pipes could burst and no one will dare speak to them ever again.  Hate bounces off Chief Bromden because he wants to love.  It is written that he had love in his childhood with his father.  He does not want to hurt anyone, or hurt himself because he just doesn't possess the hate to do so.  He won't scream when he is being captured or held "hostage." The other patients are taught to hate one another and write secret confidential facts in the "logbook" where people confess things they shouldn't, so the nurse is aware of it.