Sylvie-Anne Ménard
Group: Monday Morning

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

1. What do readers learn about chief Broom?
He's tall, he looks very strong, he looks like a real indian. Everyone in the hospital think that he is deaf and dumb, but the way he's talking in the book, it seems he's not. He's mopping the floor of the room all day long. He fears the big nurse and the black boys. He never talks. He was classed as a chronic. Before entering the hospital, he was an electrician's assistant in training camp in the Army. His father was a real indian chief.

2. What do reader learn about Big Nurse?
She's such a huge woman, with a very strong attitude. She's precise, she uses automatic gestures. She's very polite with everybody. She has a beautiful smooth face with blue eyes and blond hair. She's extremely clam. She leaves every night in the Outside, she has a great power on the hospital when she's there. She worked there since a very long time; she was there when chief Broom was registred in the hospital. She's getting more and more skillful all over the years. She needs and like to have control over everything.

3. What do you make of Mc Murphy?
He does not seem like an ordinary guy. He isn't scared at all. He speaks to everyone, he's a gambler, he always has a pornographic card deck in his pocket. His laughs look real. He looks like a negative leader, a manipulator. He went in jail for rape. He may be pretending to be crazy in order to escape from the jail. He has an obsession with women and gambling, he seems opn to everybody and he laughs all the time.

4. What atmosphere prevails on the ward?
The room is separated in two sections: the acutes and the chronics. The acutes are writting about each others, as a therapeutic order from the big nurse. They're making jokes and playing card. The staff doesn't get along with the insane, except for the big Nurse. Everyone is afraid of her. The Big Nurse rules inside the hospital. An idea of cooperation has been intalled in order to help the acutes cure each others.