Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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?

4 comments:

  1. I was also confused during this nights reading, but it also lead me to realize more about McMurphy's character. The author Ken Kesey is making me confused about what he truly is writing about. How or why is a sane person living in an insane asylum? Is he supposed to be living there for the good of the whole ward to change it? It seems like now he is just doing this to make the book seem more "crazy"

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  2. I agree it would be more interesting to learn about the characters more and look deeper into their disabilities. I sometime also find myself drifting from the book. I feel that some parts are not as interesting as others. I found the meeting of all the members in the hospital to be interesting because we got to see the way the characters interact. I found the part where Cheif Bromden went through a typical day at the hospital not very exciting.

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  3. I do agree with you Jared about the fact that the story kind of went off topic for a while and I didn't find a lot of the detail mentioned necessary. Rather, I would've preferred to find out more about the characters lives and how they are going to live out the rest of their lives from now on. I did find some of the stories that were told to be interesting but nothing that really made me fascinated.

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  4. Does Kesey make the description of a typical day on the ward "slow-paced" and a bit "foggy" on purpose to make the readers understand how Chief felt, stuck in that routine? Jared, be careful not to use the term "schizo" lightly; refer to it only if you are literally discussing the mental disease.

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