Extra Credit Task—due March 12
Write about something in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and/or The House on Mango Street. A lesson you care about. A character you connect with. A setting you can imagine. You pick. The more you write, the more extra credit you can earn.
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A lesson I learned from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Is to simply embrace the flaws you have and learn to overcome them yourself. Don't let the issue fall into the hands of someone who doesn't know what they are doing or actively making it worse than it already was. That is what I got from the film, in my opinion. Now, we see how the mentally ill are treated nowadays. Being included in many things and are being given more aid and help than before.
-Andrew Colby
The number one thing that me and moviegoers know about One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is the message and meaning of it. The message and meaning of the film is usually about getting your courage back and making you believe that you’re not alone in this cruel world, especially the location with the most cruelty. This is what Mac did to Chief and succeeded and didn’t let corrupt staff members take him over or anything like that and it convinces a lot of people to do it and everything else.
What I took from the story was that if you stay quiet and proceed to be you in some situations you will be able to escape fatality like Chief did he stayed quiet till the very end until he thanked Randle for the gum and then that's when Chief started thinking and then he decided to escape because his motivation kicked in and wanted to leave but that was after Randle had that terrible surgery where he couldn't talk and then Chief went to the fountain where Randle tried attempting to lift it up and Chief was able too and escaped.
from what I saw in the movie R.P. McMurphy could have escaped with Chief but he did not stay quiet like Chief or just act like he was not there but after a while McMurphy made him think which lead chief to say something which I was surprised the first time hearing him witch lead to chief wanting to escape and witch he did.
A lesson I took from the story was that conformity and monotony can kill. This killing, of course, doesn't necessarily mean physical death but sometimes emotional death. Emotional death is a term I just now coined up (it probably already exists but that's not the point right now) that basically explains the numbness of life and how some people could lose the ability to express themselves or feel any positive emotion. I feel like I struggle with this sometimes, expressing emotion, sometimes it just feels like an act. I'm always constantly in my head, talking to myself or conjuring up conversations with people to pass the time. Anyways, minor tangent, back to the lesson, the guys in the ward of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' are somewhat miserable at first, they have their daily activities but they don't seem to really take any joy from partaking in it just going with the motions as they've done time and time again. This is monotony, a repeated strict routine with rarely any changes and for most, it can get boring. Then, Randle P. Macmurphy comes and introduces spontaneity, he's energetic, charming, funny, and charismatic and the guys start to like him, much like Tommy in The Shawshank Redemption. Randle tries to change the system and even though the guys somewhat respect him and enjoy his company at this point, most of them don't follow his wish to change the system. This is conformity. They're so used to the system that they became comfortable with it, seeing change as something to be wary of, even though the prospect of watching the world series would be fun, they're not fully convinced yet. See, emotional death isn't fatal, and sometimes the easiest form of resuscitation is just a little change or a little rebellion from the established norm.
a lesson i learned is that you never know how someone is feeling on the inside. I think people need to understand that being sad and depressed are different things.
A lesson I learned from the film is keeping quiet will get you a long way as you could tell the chief could talk but didn't until the end and that was when he received the gum and then at the end of the movie he was the only one to escape.
I connect to McMurphy, from what I can tell he just wanted to have a good time and help everyone, I don't see him really caring about himself. just like me I don't really care about myself at all but I do care about others, sometimes a little too much, I do what others tell me even if I don't want to. I don't like talking to people about my feeling, it gets me no where so I see no point in wasiting someone's like for me to talk about my feeling.
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