Reading Pages 125-150

I thought it was really interesting how what we were talking about in class seemed to happen. Nurse Ratched seemed to be going crazy. It was interesting when Chief Bromden saw that everyone was looking at Nurse Ratched through the glass instead of the opposite way around. It really shows how much McMurphy has done throughout his short stay at the institute. When Chief Bromden was in the meeting, he seemed to notice that when the doctor was talking to Nurse Ratched she didn't realize it, or was purposely ignoring the doctor. Instead, she was looking up at the ceiling to see how dirty they were. If this was on purpose, then I'm guessing she's trying show that she's not bothered by anything that's happening. If it wasn't on purpose, then it shows that she is going insane. Do you think she's actually going insane or do you think she's just ignoring the others just to show that she's not bothered by McMurphy or the recent voting?

Reading Pages 100-125

This was an interesting night of reading. Something I thought was really interesting was how the Nurse used the fog machine to manipulate the patients thoughts. Instead of using pills or shock therapy, she used the fog machine. Why not wipe out the patients memory instead of making them droopy and forgetful? The  nurse is getting extremely defensive in her actions. She's completely taking out McMurphy's options for overruling the institute. Without the other patients following him, other then Cheswick, he'll have no other options. It seems as if the Nurse knows that McMurphy is winning the battle between the two. It makes me start to wonder if using the fog machine is all she can do. Do you think if McMurphy finds away to defeat the use of the fog machine she'll use something else? If she does, do you think McMurphy will find a way around that?

Reading Pages 75-100

In this night of reading I found that the "policy" kept on being brought up by either McMurphy, The Big Nurse, or the "Black" boys. However, whenever McMurphy or the black boys brought it up, it seemed different. I got the feeling that it was more emphasized when mentioned in a sentence by them as opposed to the Nurse. When McMurphy brought it up, he kept on saying "goddamned policy" or something like is it against the ward policy? When the black boys said it, it seemed as if they didn't want to say it, and kind of wanted to help McMurphy break the policy. If the black boys were to help McMurphy break the policy with the rest of the patients, Acutes and Chronics, it would be much more interesting. Does anyone else think this?

Reading Pages 50-75

For tonights reading I found it really interested that McMurphy was able to convince Harding that Ratced is actually bad. Especially since Harding first said that Nurse Ratched was doing a good job. This kind of gave me the sense that McMurphy can convince anyone, especially since I believe he is in fact sane and he doesn't need to be in the institute. I also found it a little bit funny how McMurphy was used the metaphor, chickens pecking each other, for the meetings. If McMurphy can convince Harding, do you think it's possible that McMurphy can convince everyone that Nurse Ratched is bad? She does drug the other members of the community. Will there be a rebellion soon?

Reading Pages 25-50

This night of readings worth was a little bit confusing, at least for me. It went from describing what happens from early morning to afternoon. Then it went from McMurphy making jokes about how his uncle had to handle a woman who kept on calling him by the wrong name, which happened to be funny. Then it told the story of an old admission named Taber. It somehow then switched to how Pete was tired of being "dead" for 55 years.

This night of reading went from funny, with McMurphy's comments about "upon touching", to the un-amusing, and terribly saddening life of Pete. Does anyone else think that this night of reading was a little bit schizo? I'd personally like to learn more about the patients past, like they did for McMurphy, anyone agree?

Reading Pages 0-25

I thought it was really interesting how Chief Bromden referred to everyone as machines. Some machines are born with malfunctions, and others the malfunctions come throughout their lives. I'm not sure, I'm pretty positive, he didn't use the word malfunction though. As I started the book, I found it to a little bit boring, but once McMurphy came into play. He seemed to add a little bit of life to the book. The little bit of life that shows that they're really in an insane asylum. Does anyone else think that Bromden is bound to have an outbreak? He said that he can hear in the early pages but others think he's deaf. Being called deaf and dumb by Billy Babbit, who seems to have a pretty bad speech impediment, should be pretty insulting to Bromden. He better have an outburst at all of those fools making fun of him.