Tell What Happened Before and After and What Is Significant About the Quote

Cuckoo’s Nest

Timed Writings

11HL Ludka

Pages 1-41

Tell what happened before and after and what is significant about the quote.

Pg 11

“But just as she starts crooking those sectioned arms around the black boys and they go to ripping at her underside with the mop handles, all patients start coming out of the dorms to check on what’s the hullabaloo and she has to change back before she’s caught in the shape of her hideous real self.”

Pg 24

“There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure just what.”

Pg 26

“But then’s when I remember thinking that he was laughing because he wasn’t fooled for one minute by my deaf and dumb act; it didn’t make any difference how cagey the act was, he was onto me and was laughing and winking to let me know it.”

Pg 37

“We had to give him another shot when he started coming up during the spine tap. What do you say we take him right on over to Building One and buzz him with EST while we’re at it – that way not waste the extra Secanol?”

Absentees Question:

The Chief sees everything has metaphor. When he is bored, time creeps by, Literally. One commentator thought that this novel would make a tremendous cartoon and you can see why.

Try to describe my room as if you were using the Chief’s eyes.

Pages 42-82

Pg 52

“I can’t help it. I was born a miscarriage. I had so many insults I died. I was born dead. I can’t help it. I’m tired. I’m give out trying. You got chances. I had so many insults I was born dead. You got it easy. I was born dead ‘an life was hard. I’m tired…”

Pg 58

“The hell with that; she’s a bitch and a buzzard and a ballcutter, and don’t kid me, you know what I’m talking about. “

Pg 65

“You know, that’s the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn’t anybody laughing. I haven’t heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing…”

Pg 81

“The worker takes the scalpel and slices up the front of old Blastic with a clean swing and the old man stops thrashing around. I expect to be sick, but there’s no blood or innards falling out like I was looking to see – just a shower of rust and ashes, and now and again a piece of wire or glass.”

Absentee’s Question

Write a first person account of the meeting from Billy Bibbit’s or Harding’s point of view?