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Aim: What is now influencing the actions of the patients?. Do Now : What do you think is the significance of Chief Bromden’s name? Where does Chief come from? Where does Bromden come from? What does the combination refer to?. Cheswick’s death.
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Aim: What is now influencing the actions of the patients? Do Now: What do you think is the significance of Chief Bromden’s name? Where does Chief come from? Where does Bromden come from? What does the combination refer to?
Cheswick’s death • What changed for Cheswick and the other patients in the ward? • Does Cheswick commit suicide? • What does Cheswick’s death mean to • McMurphy? • Nurse Ratched? • Chief Bromden?
Time to deconstruct… • Why does McMurphy break the glass knowing what he has to lose? • What is the significance of the line, “That window glass was so spick and span I com-pletely forgot it was there”?
McMurphy’s Influence • “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t” – What is McMurphy’s response? • How have the patients’ behaviors been changed by the influence of McMurphy? Refer to Harding, Billy Bibbit and Scanlon’s activities on p. 208 • McMurphy is essentially an agent of disorder introduced into a very ordered environment. If his influence is to be seen as positive, what larger idea in Kesey setting up here? Think macrocosm, larger world.
Bromdenspeaks • What has finally brought Bromden to speak? • Where are Bromden’s fogs? How are his memories in stark contrast to the fog? • What effect has McMurphy had on Bromden? Refer to p.192
Fishing Trip • What would the fishing trip mean to McMurphy? The Patients? Nurse Ratched? • How does the fishing trip begin to become symbolic?