Isabelo Cruz

2/18/2015

Cuckoos nest questions.

2.

The Importance of Max Taber is that he was the first

psychopath on the ward. He continuously disrupted the cycles

that occurred and flustered the nurse, was even hated by her. A
strong note of his acts of rebellion is when he refuses medication
(pg.35) questioning what it is and takes the duty of moping the
bathrooms instead. His actions eventually end up getting him
forcefully medicated and prime him for becoming a prime
example to the patients for what happens when you lash out. He
ends up getting set up for Electro shock therapy (pg.38) and
though its some time before he returns to the ward he ends up
coming back different. Taber eventually comes back a changed
man according to the text. He becomes a successful dismissal
and considered the best the ward had ever seen, a man truly
changed by modern science. Max tabers value though and the
point of his grace in the story though would seem to be how
nurse Ratched deals with those who upset her schedule and how
she runs her ward.

4.

Doctor Spivey is the wards doctor who was picked by Miss

Ratched likely because of his characteristics of weakness. We tend to

see that he, although seems to have great ideas is easily redirected by
others as noticed in pages 47-49 when he gives his speech on
communication therapy. This trait ends up being an asset to Mcmurphy
later on as he bends the doctor to help with tasks and even rally him
up to lend some weight to some of his ideas. At one point Mcmurphy
enlists him to get behind the idea of a carnival that the patients want
to have and Ratched shoots it down, further playing into mcmurphys
bid for power on the ward. It eventually starts to show that the doctor
is more on their side when he helps the patients acquire an extra day
room to avoid the music and even further when he agrees to be a
second car to enable a day trip for the patients out of the ward on a
fishing trip. The doctors value in the story is that of a tool that helps
shift the balance towards Mcmurphy from the nurse for a while.

5.

The importance of the World Series vote is to show how willing

the patients are to stand behind Mcmurphys ideas and stand up for
themselves. In the initial vote many agreed to vote yet did not, in fact
Cheswick was the only one who did. (pg.105.) this caused an initial
disconnect between Mcmurphy and the crew of patients. Then there
came to be a second round of voting. In the second round of voting

Mcmurphy succeeded to get all 20 acutes to vote but the nurse

wouldnt honor it because the chronics votes should have counted as
well, which they were also twenty of them as well. Right on the wire as
the nurse said the vote was decided Mcmurphy had gotten chief
bromden to raise his hand in agreement, though the nurse did not
honor it. The strongest effect of this though was showing that together
and unified they had something they didnt realize before, that
numbers were on their side. The vote on the championship game
showed a vote of unity and faith in following Mcmurphys logic. (This
culminates on page 126)