One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - the "Fog"

The fog that occurs frequently in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is considered to be blinding, but also random. The fog according to Chief  occurs after shock therapy, but the reader never really observes anyone else having the same effect. To add on, the setting of the story is an insane asylum, so who is to say Chief isn't the one actually making it up. Perhaps it isn't only Chief though, what if it were just side effects to the daily medicine (drugs) they have to take?

Now let's analyze Chief Bromden, and why he's in the asylum. Cheif Bromden shows certain signs including hostility, paranoia and delusions, social isolation, and lack of interest in personal hygiene. These are all signs of a well known mental disorder called schizophrenia. Alike most patients in the hospital Chief Bromden would need his daily amount of medicine to take care of most problems that schizophrenia contain.

When patients in a mental hospital are misbehaving and hurting others, they must be dosed with something to keep them calm. Perhaps what they treat them with is a drug that blinds them, or "fogs" them from seeing much. This stategy is somewhat like that of an alligator hunter, the hunter throws a towel or a bag over the head of the alligator to keep it from hurting anyone.
Alike the alligator Chief was reacting violently to the black boys shaving him. Though little did he know, that during the adrenaline rush he accessed from fighting back, he had been drugged with what he claimed was a "fog machine". So the only inference that would most likely uncover what the fog is, would be the drugs.

WFG- Film/book comparison

My entry is a comparison of the second scene shown in class, this scene is lucky's speech. In the book understanding his speech becomes difficult as you don't understand the full grasp of the meaning. Reading the book lacks the emotion and the increasing speed of the speech. In the book the speech seems as though it's a constant speed, in which it finally draws out the excessive boredome that was growing in us. Though watching the film, you can get a full grasp on the speech and it actually catches your attention as he gets more intense and lowder toward the end.

The small phrase "quaquaquaqua" used by lucky was a mystery to me while I read the novel. He used it twice, "quaquaquaqua", and the mystery grew inside me. Why is this suddenly genious character using this small phrase? It made no sense, "quaquaqauqau" it was just completely random and just put lucky back on the level he was before. level dumb. Although watching the film made it much clearer. He was using the phrase to keep Vlademere and Estragon away from him. You could never tell this from simply reading it, but when you watch the film and notice what Vlademer and Estragon are doing you gain the full grasp of "quaquaquaqua". An example of the motion would be as follows. (Estragon and Vlademere approach Lucky) Lucky: quaquaquaqua (Estragon and Vlademere back up in fear and curiosity).

essay relfection

I felt fairly good about my essay score, but agree that it needs improvement. The thesis I wrote was thought out well, but written poorly according to words. I stated that what was occuring in the quote was foreshadowing the novel, but I should have written what occurs in the scene that it is actually foreshadowing. I should have used more quotes and maybe weeved them into my essay.  I also could have gone onto the point of view of the people, then Meursault, and then how it foreshadows and describes the novel as a whole. I feel strong about my writing but would love to improve to gain the highest possible score that I can.

Waiting For Godot - critic interpretation

Beckett introduces the two act play with two men, one who seems to forget alot and the other who gets rather anoyed from it. The forgetful one, Estragon, becomes agitated with his friend Vlademire and his boot.

Are these men old? Why are they waiting for Godot? The play Waiting For Godot leaves it's viewers with many unanswered questions, although you may be able to make an inference based upon factual information.

To infer wether or not these men are old or just forget full, one can look back on the way they react to situations and such. Estragon complains every other second and then claims he is going to leave, forgetting that he is waiting for Godot. These are signs of Alzeihmers which is a disease involving deacreasing brain cells and memory loss.

Why are they waiting for Godot, we're not exactly sure as to why they are waiting for Godot, but if they weren't their wouldn't be a story. For Beckett's point of view, Waiting For Godot is a symbol for life. As I read the story I found the point of waiting for Godot pointless. So as I mix both my views and the authors I can infer that the book is an Existential view on life.

The story of Waiting For Godot, emphasizes the pointless repetition of life, like a mother is to the routine of her day, and a child is to the continuation of school.

The Stranger- Response #3

Everyone is here; everybody exist, but there is no reason as to why. this existential view is brought up in the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus. Throughout the novel Camus is explaining his view through the existential character M.M.. Toward the end of the novel M.M. begins to show his feelings toward this thought. He feels as though we have no purpose in life and no meaning in general, just to live and die. I believe he feels this way because he loses his old life and begins to miss it, driving him to be a more extreme existentialist. As the end comes near for M.M. he only realizes that life will just end short for him, and that he is finally leaving a world where his views were frowned upon. This goes back to the quote by the nurse as followed.  "She said, "If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church." She was right. There was no way out." Instead of going slow and getting a sunstroke, M.M. is ending life quickly, he will soon be chilled. In this case, a "chilling" is a relief for M.M. because through the whole novel he experiences hot weather which in turn distorts his judgement. But all the same the end of then novel brings both stress and relief to M.M. as while he realizes and accepts his death.