One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2 - Kelia

Chief Bromden may be reluctant at first to admit it within himself, he makes sure to point out that McMurphy has begun to change the ward by changing the way the patients think and ultimately how they act. It isn't intil McMurphy convinced the other Acutes to vote on watching the World Series that the Chief shows out right that he has been affected by McMurphy's presents. When he raised his hand, it proved that he connected enough to the outside world outside of his fog to register and form an oppinion to vote. This may not seem like a big accomplishment to many people but the Chief hasn't talked nor truly interacted with the other patients for many years. There is also the fact that he didn't deny the fact that he was the one to choose to raise his hand, at first he blamed McMurohy claiming "[he] did something to it that first day... McMurphy's got hidden wires hooked up to it, lifting is slow," but in the end, he outright admits to it, saying "No. That's not the truth. I lifted it myself"(127). The Chief changed after that day, the "fog" didn't come around anymore after the day they beat the Big Nurse andi t didn't return until after McMurphy started to follow the rules. Once McMurphy stops sticking up for them and challenging the nurse he felt they were starting to fix the fog machine. McMurphy is what clears the Chief's mental cloak of fog even though he doesn't realize it, saying the machine had broken. Now that McMurphy is no longer being himself to insure he won't be stuck there longer then he needs it's effecting a much wider circle of people then he could ever realize.

- Kelia

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Penguin Books, 1962. Print.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Kelia

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest it is obvious that if it's set in a mental hospital and the narrator is a patient in the for mentioned mental institute, that he's not going to be completely stable. Chief Bromden appears sane enough at first, more stable than some of his fellow patients at the very least, but it becomes apparent that the information we get through his view point isn't always going to be very reliable. You get a firsthand account of his delusions when he describes the Big Nurses transformation in the hall, saying she "Swelled up, swells till her back's splitting out of the white uniform and she's let her arms section out long enough to wrap around the three of them five, six times"(11). We know that a small women in her fifties can't transform into some sort of beast that can swell into a monster that could constrict three full grown men five or six times. It brings up the question why does the Chief see the nurse as this fantastic beastly creature even when she puts on the face of innocents when all the other patiets come out of their rooms. He even states "...she has to change back before she's caught in the shape of her hideous real self" (11). Chief Bromben seens to act as if he has an over active mind in a way from looking at his throughts and seeing how in a metaphorical sense they are right yet in comparison with the real world he is delusional.
- Kelia Murata
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Penguin Books, 1962. Print.