Rachael Stevick

Question 1:

The narrator of our book is Chief Bromden. He is a patient in the mental institution. I could describe Bromden as a tall man about 6’7 who is a little bit of a pushover however he is a very smart man. He faked being deaf that way people would talk around him and he could know what was going on. I’d say he was rather sensible and picked up on people quickly. I think in the beginning of this novel he lacks confidence, but it is returned during the story.  Because he is the narrator we know a lot about him. We know his past such as getting his mother’s name and not his dads do to his father having a drinking problem. He played football which enabled him to travel much. He has had a women ask him to take her away. A big thing we realize is that Chief was in the army during World War 2. This is a very big factor into who he is due to the fact that now he is known as crazy.

 When he is the army he learns all about these electronics which he now schizophrenically hallucinates to. My opinion of Bromden did however change in the story. The whole novel I really liked him I had a good look on how he saw things. I felt sorry for him but had respect for him. He saw things in the hospital that were not right and shared them with the reader. I thought I had an understanding he made me think. Figuring out if what he was saying was real. But of course with every great story comes a plot twist. He is the reason for McMurphy’s death. He suffocated him with a pillow. I never saw this coming from him.

Q2:

I think the author chose Chief Bromden to narrate because if he didn’t he’d be a nobody. He was a fly on the wall character for most of the story. The main characters were the Nurse and McMurphy. If he has chosen either of those two the story would be even more bias. Yes I said even more in a sense the story is in a sense bias due to Bromden being a patient. Obviously he was stating what was wrong in the ward and putting most of the blame on the nurse who was in charge of the patients. When Mcmurphy stepped in it was like he was the super hero and as a reader that’s what we thought until Bromden didn’t see his as one. If it was from another side maybe we would have thought the nurse was a hero.

Another big thing he changes is the fact of what is real and what is not real. He is paranoid and obviously in a ward for a reason. We as the reader had to see what was real and what wasn’t. I like Bromden a lot, I think he could have been a lot better off if he was in a ward in today’s world. He didn’t seem to have zero hope I felt the hope I could tell the rest of the characters didn’t. Yes he did kill McMurphy and there is no excuse for that but I do think he a least put him out of his misery of being a vegetable. I am really happy the author chose Bromden my favorite character I loved watching his character development.