We can accommodate any number range you might need: sequential, non-sequential, repeating, alphanumeric, even random. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it”, “Anointest my head with conductant. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. From the creators of SparkNotes, something better. No more than right that it should be this way. But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. No one to care about, which is what makes him free enough to be a good con man.”, “The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin’ at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. And that they can reassert that power if they wish. Artwork Take your branding to the next level by customizing your order with your event name and logo. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. (including. Pity.” He turned to McMurphy. This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! I’d think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. Teachers and parents! He most certainly doesn’t challenge the wolf to combat. All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn’t it?
She sometimes employs physical force (such as shock treatment), drugs (personality altering pills), but also uses simple intimidation and other tactics to ensure that the men are always under a strict, unchanging schedule and that they are acting in a submissive, despondent way that makes them easier to control.
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey draws a clear connection between the men’s sexuality and their freedom—their very ability to be “men.” Nurse Ratched uses emasculating tactics throughout the novel in order to strip the men on the ward of their freedom. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen. I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite. Now, would that be wise? You're not! The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. They’re nuts. If you’re looking for multiple sets of numbers for teams or a relay, we can do that too! There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what. All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys... More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.
We must face up to this. It shows the men that Ratched is not some impersonal avenging force, she's a woman, and that the men, by extension, are men, who traditionally are the powerful ones. Take what you can use and let the rest go by. You gripe, you bitch for weeks on end about how you can’t stand this place, can’t stand the nurse or anything about her, and all the time you ain’t committed. I got just as much to lose hassling that old buzzard as you do. Numbers It’s what we do best! That ain't me, that ain't my face. Tell me why. Shame.' You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane. When McMurphy arrives at the ward, he immediately identifies emasculation is the core of Nurse Ratched’s strategy of control, and notes after the first group session that she is a “ball-breaker.” Nurse Ratched and McMurphy, then, operate in direct opposition of one another throughout the novel: Ratched the emasculating force, McMurphy the hyper-masculine force, bragging about his many sexual conquests and challenging the other men to show some balls. Instant downloads of all 1372 LitChart PDFs But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it” "My students can't get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the roof." Do I get a crown of thorns?”, “Nobody complains about all the fog. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. This act, though, once discovered by Nurse Ratched, forces him to suicide because he cannot bear to think of his mother’s reaction.
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LitCharts Teacher Editions. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. There was times that week when I’d hear that full-throttled laugh, watch [McMurphy] scratching his belly and stretching and yawning and leaning back to wink at whoever he was joking with, everything coming to him just as natural as drawing breath, and I’d quit worrying about the Big Nurse and the Combine behind her. The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. This act, though, once discovered by Nurse Ratched, forces him to suicide because he cannot bear to think of his mother’s reaction. We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. If that don’t beat all, conned ol’ R. P. McMurphy,’…Well I don’t mean nothing personal, you understand, buddies, but screw that noise. Mrs.Bibbit, Billy’s mother, and friends with Nurse Ratched, is another authoritative figure in the novel. -Graham S. Below you will find the important quotes in, “Would not have made it through AP Literature without the printable PDFs. Hitler an example. He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things. I’d think he was strong enough being his own self that he would never back down the way she was hoping he would. So’s they can’t see.”, “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”, “He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”, “He knows that there’s no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who’s trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you’re not bothered.”, “This world... belongs to the strong, my friend!
” #3: “His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can’t lift, something everybody knows he can’t lift. Would it?”, “All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”, “He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum”, “I let the mop push me back to the wall and smile and try to foul her equipment up as much as possible by not letting her see my eyes --they can’t tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”, “First Charles Cheswick and now William Bibbit! Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Nobody ever noticed. Struggling with distance learning? They're like having in-class notes for every discussion!”, “This is absolutely THE best teacher resource I have ever purchased.
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It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is. You must burry on? But you, you’re not exactly the everyday man on the street, but you’re not nuts. I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic? Playing with human lives—gambling with human lives—as if you thought of yourself to be a God!”, “Why, you sure did give a jump when I told you that coon was coming, Chief. Yes...I see... What a Life: Give some of us pills to stop a fit, give the rest shock to start one. It's society's way of dealing with someone different. Ah, he’s gone. He knows his place. 2269. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it’s their turn. He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.