https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h AP is lit en-us 2018-03-30 03:18:32 UTC 2026-02-18 04:12:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png zachary_54668 https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249334820 When McMurphy is introduced as a character early in the book, he introduces himself with the statement, "My name is McMurphy, buddies, R.P. McMurphy, and I'm a gambling fool." He is a gambling addict and he always carries a deck of cards with him wherever he goes. His first interaction with a character is by asking him what his game is and pulling out his deck of cards. The picture of the deck of cards below is there to symbolize his gambling addiction and how he always has a deck of cards. Throughout the first 100 pages McMurphy continues his gambling ways by taking risks with the patients and with the Big Nurse, the person who has all the power in the ward. ]]> 2018-04-06 18:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249334820 zachary_54668 https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249486617 Throughout reading the first part of the book I couldn't help but always imagine Nurse Ratched as Miss Trunchbull from Matilda. Everyone was always scared of her and she ruled over the patients with a strong fist. Also, it just seems like what a head nurse would have looked like in a mental ward back in the 60s. ]]> 2018-04-08 04:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249486617 hilleja1 https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249587842 This ad from the 1950s show how inhumane mental institutions at the time of the novel could be. What the patients in the book endured on a regular basis would be considered not only cruel today, but illegal.]]> 2018-04-08 21:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249587842 alyssa_723655 https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249645493 As I was reading the first part, I wondered how Bromden was able to not react, or react subtly, to every event so that everyone thought he was deaf. McMurphy noticed him jump when he told Bromden that one of the aides was coming so he know that Bromden isn’t actually deaf. McMurphy isn’t insane, though, so it could be that no one else notices because of their illness (not including the nurse and aides). ]]> 2018-04-09 04:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249645493 alyssa_723655 https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249646230 Whenever McMurphy and Nurse Ratched go head to head, I imagine something like how cowboys duel (at least in Red Dead Redemption). McMurphy like gambling and he’s a wild person in general, so it adds to my mental image of the wild west. ]]> 2018-04-09 05:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249646230 william_703216 https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249652803

When the Big Nurse's ways were being described, it seemed as though she was very strict based on the regular schedule and behavioral expectations of her patients, but McMurphy ruins it all for her by being loud and boisterous and purposely trying to cause trouble, ruining her entire operation.]]> 2018-04-09 06:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249652803 william_703216 https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249653280 I feel as though McMurphy should not be in the institution for all he's done. Yes, he has committed a list of crimes and offenses, but does that mean he should be admitted for insanity? I feel as though it may show possible corruption in the asylum program, or of course I could be looking at it wrong -- I am probably looking at it incorrectly and making stupid predictions.]]> 2018-04-09 06:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hilleja1/y8obq1lxtk0h/wish/249653280