Maya Huggins- part 1

Chief Bromden was chosen to narrate this tale of injustice and unequally distributed power. He comes from a background of being repeatedly ignored by friends and family. Throughout the novel, he recalls flashbacks of incidents where he would blatantly be ignored, specifically by high authorites. In part three of the novel, Chief recalls, upon remembering the sale of his father's land, "Not a one of the three acts like they heard a thing I said; in fact, they're all looking off from me like they'd as soon I wasn't there at all" (Kesey 213).  I think incidents like this triggered chief into acting as though he is deaf because he believes no one will listen to him anyway.
Chief has multiple accounts of paranoia and hallucinations throughout the novel. He witnesses fog that doesn't exist, and he sees characters in a way no one else can. He even goes on to view a doctor by explaining, " A visiting doctor covered with gray cobwebs on his yellow skull is addressing the resident boys in the staff room" (Kesey 126). I believe these accounts of hallucinating made Chief seem unique to me, but I also found him unreliable as well. These episodes of paranoia led me to believe that he would be weak and unfit for power, but my opinion changed as a result of the ending of the novel.
After being portrayed as a weak, paranoid man with assumed deafness, I would have never guessed Chief would be capable of strangling McMurphy in the end. This was especiallly shocking to me considering McMurphy was the only one Chief allowed to keep his secret of he fake deafness. I Think Chief's character shifted into a power-hungry animal that wished to finally be seen as a threat. this links back to his anger over his opinions and ideas being looked over and deemed unimportant as a child. Overall, Chief Bromden, in my opinion, suffered from the biggest transformation overall.