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Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a truly inspiring experience. I absolutely loved it. It was the most unique portrayal of human nature I've ever read...disturbing and twisted, yet beautiful and captivating. You wouldn't expect to grow so attached to people in a mental institution. I don't think any of us expected to relate to any of the characters as much as we did. The truth of the matter was that their "mental problems" that held them in the institution were not so different from what we experience: Harding and his inferiority complex, Billy and his fear of displeasing his mother and being different altogether, and Bromden and his insecurity.
Inferiority, insecurity, fear of not being accepted = highschool.
Reading the story aloud helped me to connect to the story.
My favorite part in the play occured the morning after the party. Ratched had just discovered Billy with Sandy, and it is apparent to her and everyone else that Billy is suddenly a different person...more confident.
Ratched immediately mentions his mother and he breaks. His confident air is gone, and he is reduced to the stuttering little boy he used to be. This was heartbreaking for me. I hated and loved that scene for its power and emotion. I hated that it was happening, but it tied the story together so well.
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Thursday, November 30, 2006
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Seriously though, you made a good Miss Ratched. You pulled the "stuck-up, cold-hearted" persona off extraordinarily well! =P
I hope we do more plays in class, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the only one we do.
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