I believe that Mrs. Ratched should win the battle for control of the ward because she is the woman who is primarily responsible for all the patients. ...

I would agree with this idea of the fog. I'm not sure any other patients in the ward experience "the fog". I think that the fog represents a space tha...

In what way would you say Mrs. Ratched turning the patients against one another? I feel as though none of the patients get treated any differently tha...

I've noticed that McMurphy has a great tactic of working in the middle of The Doctor and Mrs. Ratched. Kind of like how a kid creates dissension betwe...

I touched on this in a reply I previously left on Julia's post for chapter 5-6. I think that McMurphy really only offers the ward temporary change. Re...

Yes absolutely. I believe that this is almost McMurphy's clear intent. During these chapters, we discover that many of the patients aren't actually pl...

When working on this section, I never really looked at McMurphy's influence from the perspective of unity. How before he arrived, Acutes never collabo...

I like the connection you made between how Chief describes Nurse Ratched, and the reality of what would happen to a nurse if Chief's description were ...

I think having Nurse Ratched as the narrator would create an entirely different perspective on this novel. I mean think about it... Patients in the wa...

The History of Mental Institutions helped me learn about the lack of mental health support during that time. To be honest I’ve struggled to understand...

The smells that linger from McMurphy are appealing to chief because he most likely hasn’t smelt it in so long. The ward is likely composed of scents f...

We learn early in chapter 5 about how the ward is set up, specifically during meetings. Patients are expected to pay attention to the nurse and to sta...

Based on Chief's description of accutes and chronics, we can assume that accutes can be helped. Accutes function better and have lessened psychologica...

Sara is flying across the world to go confirm the condition of her son, who had been taken during a search and rescue mission in Afghanistan. Sara, wh...

“There were no thoughts about killing. The grenade was to make him go away-just evaporate-and I leaned back and felt my mind go empty and then felt it...