Throughout the first chapters we learned that chief broom was treated very unfairly. The big nurse forced him to sweep the floor and I thought it was very cruel. The symbolism I found in this book was when Broom talked about the "combine". When you first hear this word you think of a machine that harvests objects. In this story the combine is a figment of Broom's imagination. The combine is the hospital and it is harvesting the individuality of the mental patience. This is a very important part in this book because of how this is affecting the patience. During the book McMurphy comes to the hospital to get out of labor at the work farm. This symbolizes the change in this machine because McMurphy doesn’t act like everyone else, he acts like an individual. The patience start acting different too when he arrives they break from their own habbits and start into new ones. This book can bring on many diffent predictions. Fell free to post any that you have.
-Mason T Hartley
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This concept of the combine is very interesting. I always wondered what he meant when he said that. It does make a lot of sense to me. I think eventually Chief will talk and it will be to McMurphy. He said in part of the book that he almost did and that he wanted to. I think it is only a matter of time and an event that will be the last straw for Chief keeping quiet.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the thinking of how he is comparing it to a big machine bacause he goes back to that thought a lot in the book like when they sliced open the oldest cronic (the vegetable) and rust fell out. he also constantly mentions the gears in the walls and how the nurse had gears and machanical equipment in her purse in the begining
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