Nurse Ratched's authority over the inmates at the ward declined as McMuphy's influence increased. The men on the ward look up to McMurphy like they were his younger siblings. In part 4, Nurse Ratched tries to demolish that influence by revealing the income of the inmates, all but McMuphy's showed a steady decrease. Harding jump to McMurphy's defence saying that they were always told by McMurphy what his intentions were. Another attempt, by the nurse, was having all those who attended the fishing trip to be cleaned. During this event McMurphy and Chief get into a fight with the black boys who tried to forcefully wash George. Afterwards, both men were sentenced to electric shock therapy in Disturbed.
The respect for McMurphy has grown in his absence which forced the Big Nurse to remove him from Disturbed. With help from Turkle, the guys have an orgy with Candy and Sandy. They even plan an escape for McMurphy which unfortunately falls through. Nurse Ratched does her own investigation and see Bill with Candy and sends him to Doctor Spivey saying she was going to tell his mom. He kills himself along the way causing McMurphy to fly into a rage and attack her. She returns a week later and orders a lobotomy for McMurphy putting him in a vegetative state. The man who always stuck by McMurphy, Chief Bromden, puts his friend out of his misery by strangling him and then makes his escape by throwing the control panel through the window.

Cuckoo's Nest 3

The two most significant things that happened in this part of Cuckoo's Nest are one Chief decides to speak, and two McMurphy's fishing trip. These two events added some spice to these otherwise boring characters. Chief opens up to McMurphy at night when they are supposed to be sleeping. Once he starts, Chief finds it difficult to stop talking almost getting caught by one of the black boys when he comes around to figure out Chief's chewing gum mystery. The fishing trip seems to give the men their metaphorical balls back as they become master of their own domains rather than submitting to Nurse Ratched's orders.
In the beginning of the trip there was a few mishaps, but with the help of Doctor Spivey it went away. There were a few more complications which McMuphy's wit got them out of, and soon enough they were on the sea fishing, drinking beers, and enjoying the company of each other. They even seemed normal without Nurse Ratched there putting them down all the time.
The characters further develop, especially Chief Bromden, as the plot progresses. The rest of the group show a sign of some relative independence. Regardless of the change, they all return to the ward with even Doctor Spivey enjoying himself.

Cuckoo's Nest 2

In Part II, McMurphy takes on the role of the main character, as he consumes more of the pages than narrator Cheif Bromden. More of the action of the novel revolves around McMurphy at this point rather than Cheif Bromden, however, because Cheif Bromden is the narrator, only his thoughts appear on the page.
At the group meetings, McMurphy seems to be the most vocal opposition to Nurse Ratched and the staff. However, his most important meeting was the one in which he silently reacts to the rationing of cigarettes. He strategizes his insubordination in a way in which he can go unpunished. He remains silent rather than vocal and sticks his hand through the glass window of Nurse Ratched's office, breaking the glass claiming that it was so spotless that he forget it was there. Everyone in the meeting is stunned, and Nurse Ratched is even fearful.
McMurphy gets permission to assemble and train a basketball team. This establishes McMurphy officially as a leader of his fellow patients. They already admire him, but now he has some given authority over them because he is now the captain of their basketball team. Once the glass is replaced, one of the members intentionally bounce the ball through the glass, causing it to break and also deflating the ball, ending the basketball season. But not before a game between the staff and the patients in which McMurhpy gets a little physical with one of the black boys.

Cuckoo's Nest 1

I feel that reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest can be a bit difficult because of the narrator's, a distracted, mysterious "chronic" in a psych ward, delivery. He falls into flashbacks in which a part of his past are revealed, but are never are the flashbacks concluded, leaving gaps in the chronology of Cheif Bromden. We know that his heritage includes American Indian, hence the title "Cheif", he was born on a reservation, and we have a physical description of him. We also know that he is the oldest member of the ward, and has been there the longest. In the ward, he is labled as a "walker" and a "chronic" which means that he is mobile and, by the ward's opinion, does not have a chance for recovery. He plays the role of a deaf and mute person, but as we understand, it is only an act. At this time, however, we still do not have much information on why he is in the psych ward.

The stream of consciousness style used by Kesey is very effective because of the setting and narrator. This feature lends more credibility and adds to the authenticity of the novel. It helps capture the full character of Cheif Bromden rather than having a third person, omniscient narrator.

Chimney Sweeper

I agree with the editors of the textbook about Blake's poetry being able to enact social change, but i believe to be another reason other tan appealing to the reader's imagination, like appealing to their emotions. In the poem, "The Chimney Sweeper", from Songs of Innocence, Blake brings to live a young boy who lost his mother, and is neglected by his father. By revealing those facts about the young child, the reader automatically feels sympathy for the boy. Then a sense of hope is given after reading about Tom's dream. Whether they relate to the situation the young boys, or that sense of hope, they are still motivated to work hard or in the poem's case rely on religion to get through their challenge. In Songs of Experience, however, that message is not shown. The emotion is more of pity then hope.

The document might have been included by the editors to give us background to the main character of the poem. Its addition reinforces the feelings of pity and sympathy felt for the young boy as he learns about the working conditions and effects of child labor.

Coleridge and Shelley

"Kubla Khan" cautions against the indulgence of the imagination. Coleridge paints this beautiful scenery causing the reader to imagine this gorgeous place, but then reverses it making the place seem dark, dangerous, and evil. This causes the reader's imagination to change its form and picture a dreary place filled with the evils of the world. Coleridge is trying to say here that relying on our imagination too much can be dangerous during a reading because it is not definate, the writer controls what the imagination sees through his words. This may have been geared towards the American Romantic warning them not to rely heavily on imagination, as well as the common people advising them to read with a balance of reason and imagination.

In Shelley's poem Ozymandias, I see three speakers; the main speaker, the traveler, and Ozymandias. The first speaker seem to play the role of someone like a prophet being that they are relating a story with social and/or political significance in history. The traveler and the main speaker observe the remains of an old structure, possibly a statue or monument of some kind. The traveler brings the information of the monument of Ozymandias. The words of Ozymandias, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!", could mean that he was defeated political or social leader. This may tell us that all proud leaders will fall if the become too controlling.

Swift Assignment

A.) The questions i wrote down are what puzzled me the most. My questions are the following: 1.) Why did the Lilliputians show Gulliver diversions only the Majesty (Emperor) and his higher ups get to see?
2.) What do you think caused Gulliver to gain his liberty so quickly?
3.) Why did Gulliver decide to help the Lilliputians with their private affairs?
4.) What do the Lilliputians want Gulliver to do for them?
I wanted to find a section of the passage that could answer at least two of my questions. My search lead me to the chunk of text from page 658-659. This sections is the Lilliputian history. I picked this because it sorta answers all my questions. Unfortunately, i didn't make any predictions.
B.) The teacher groups, in my opinion, were helpful in a way to understand someone else’s point of view because there is a small group so there is a more in depth discussion. Also, I believe it is good because if your unclear or you did something wrong then the other members can critique you and make clarifications. The bad thing about the teacher groups, to me, is if someone didn’t do their part, or if someone tries to shut down your opinions and ideas. The ugly is the time it takes to go through all the information and get your final product.

In my group, the good was that everyone did their part and we all understood each other’s views. We tried to get everyone’s opinion involved based off of what questions and topics we had in common. My group work pretty well together and we got a lot done compared to some groups. The really wasn’t any bad besides a few unclear subjects due to our points of view. In my group the only real ugly part was Paul. So in my opinion the teacher groups are good at helping us understand the text we read as well as the work a teacher has to do normally on their own. I wouldn’t change anything about it because it was helpful to me, and I learned my classmate’s opinions and had the text clarified by combining our opinions.

C.) On Monday, I will not be doing anything different, but I’m not sure about my partners. We have a basis for our teachings and are already planning everything out. Our questions are picked, our quotes discussed and clarified, but our predictions are unclear. So our work only consists of our predictions and finishing our “lesson plans”, and finally teaching the topic.