The Dalles, after the dam.
As Lewis and Clark would have viewed The Dalles
Although this is a European romanticized image, it nevertheless evokes how Chief Bromden feels about his childhood and his people.
The Army Corp of Engineers building the dam in 1957 These are the falls to which Chief Bromden refers.
Pages 42-190 quotes that are related chronologically to the plot, but are significant in terms of theme and character.
1. "McMurray, Randle Patrick. Committed by the state from the Pendleton Farm for Correction. For diagnosis and possible treatment. Thirty-five years old. Never married. Distinguished Service Cross in Korea, for leading an escape from a Communist prison camp. A dishonorable discharge, afterward, for insubordination. Followed by a history of street brawls and barroom fights and a series of arrests for Drunkeness, Assault and Battery, Disturbing the Peace, repeated gambling, and one arrest- for Rape."
2. "Don't overlook the possibility that this man might be feigning psychosis to escape the drudgery of the work farm."
3. "theory of our Therapeutic Community"
4. "That's a good rule for a smart gambler; look the game over awhile, before you draw yourself a hand."
5. "Pete's been a chronic all his life. Even though he didn't come into the hospital till he was better than fifty...But one good thing-being simple like that put him out of the clutch of the Combine."
6. "Is this the usual pro-cedure for these Group Ther'py shindigs? Bunch of chickens at a peckin' party?"
7. "No, buddy, not that. She ain't peckin' at your eyes. That's not what she's peckin' at...Seen 'em all over the country--people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live the way they want you to."
8."...that she even further serves mankind on her weekends off by doing generous volunteer work around town."
9. "Doctor Spivey...is exactly like the rest of us, McMurphy, completely conscious of his inadequacy."
10. "She merely needs to insinuate, insinuate anything."
11. "As near as I can tell you're not any crazier than the average asshole on the street--"
12. "If you don't answer her questions, Mack, you admit it just by keeping quiet. It's the way those bastards in the government get you."
13. "You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that thre wasn't anybody laughing."
14. "About the only time we get any let-up from this time control is in the fog; then time doesn't mean anything. It's lost in the fog, like everything else. (They haven't really fogged the place full force all day today, not since McMurphy came in."
15. "That damn radio. Boy. It's been going ever since I come in this morning. And don't give me that baloney that you don't hear it. Yes, I suppose we do hear it if we concentrate, but then one can hear one's own heartbeat too, if he concentrates enough."
16. "Oh, one more thng before I leave it your hands tonight, Miss Pillow; that new man sitting over there, the one with the garish red sideburns and facial lacerations--I've reason to believe he's a sex maniac."
17. "When you take one of these red pills you don't just go to sleep; your paralyzed with sleep, and all night long you can't wake, no matter what goes on around you."
18. "He's just as vulnerable, maybe, but the Combine didn't get him...because a moving target is hard to hit...no relatives pulling at him with watery old eyes. No one to care about, which is what makes him free enough to be a good con man."
19. "Good morning, Miss Rat-shed! How are things on the outside?"
20. "You can't run aroung here --in a towel."
21. "Who wants to lay me a pore little dollar that I can't put this dab of butter square in the center of the face of that clock up there?"
22."She picks the log book up from the table and frowns into it a minute (nobody's informed on anybody all day long."
23. "I happened to think of the old tub room where we store the tables during the ward meeting. We don't use the room al all othrwise."
24. "I could lift it all right. Well, hell, right over there you are: the thing Billy's sitting on. That big control panel with all the handles and cranks...probably weighs 400 pounds. ...he knows he can't lift it, something everybody knows he can't lift...But for just a second, when we hear the cement gring at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it."
25, "You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself.'
26. "Your mothr has spoken to me about this girl, Billy. Apparently she was quite a bit beneath you."
27. "Everyone in favor of changing the television time to the afternoon, raise his hand....No, that's not the truth: I lifted it myself."
28." We have weeks, or months, or years if need be."
29. "he'd think of her everytime he swabbed the urinal"
30. "Wednesday's the day they pack everybody up who hasn't got some kind of rot and move everyone to the swimming pool."
31 After Vera Harding visits: "Hells bells, Harding, "I don't know what to think! What do you want out of me? A marriage counsellor? All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down."
32. "I'm voluntary. I'm not committed."
33. "Please understand: We do not impose certain rules and restrictions on you without a great deal of thought about their therapeutic value. A good many of you are in hre because you could not adjust to the rules of society in the outside world, because you refused to face up to them, because you tried to circumvent them and avoid them. At some time--perhaps in your childhood--you may have been allowed to get away with flouting the rules of society. When you broke a rule you knew it. You wanted to be dealt with, you needed it, but the punishment did not come. That foolish leinence on the part of your parents may have been the germ that grew into your present illness."
34. 'I'm sure sorry ma'am...Gawd, but I am. That window glass was so spick and span, I com-pletely forgot it was there."
35. "The ringing in my head had stopped."
36. "So with basketball season obviously over, McMurphy decided fishing was the thing."
37. "But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all."
38. " I told him thank you."
Vocabulary 15 definitions
Due this Friday May 28
1. amenity (noun)- that which is pleasant or agreeable; (plural) attractive features or customs
2. aperture (noun)- an opening, gap, hole; orifice
3. dissidence (noun)- a difference of opinion; discontent; disagreement, dissent , disaffection
4. epicurean (adj)- devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; fond of good food, comfort and ease; with discriminating tastes; (noun) a person with discriminating tastes; hedonistic, sybaritic, discriminating
5. improvident (adj.)- not thrifty; failing to plan ahead; prodigal, spendthrift, extravagant
6. iniquity (noun)- wickedness, sin; a grossly immoral act; evil, crime
7. inviolable (adj.) – sacred; of such a character that it must not be broken, injured or profaned
8. mutable (adj)- open to or capable of change; changeable, variable
9. nascent (adj).)- just beginning to exist or develop; having just come into existence; budding, incipient, embryonic
10. obeisance (noun)- a deep bow or other body movement indicating respect or submission; deference, homage
11. panegyric (noun) formal or elaborate praise; a tribute; encomium, testimonial
12. pillory (noun)- a device for publicly punishing offenders; a means for exposing one to public contempt or ridicule; (verb)- to expose to public contempt or ridicule
13. pittance (noun)- a woefully meager allowance, wage or portion; modicum, trifle
14. presage (verb)- to foreshadow or point to a future event; to predict; (noun) a warning or indication of the future; augur, portend, foretell
15. progeny (noun)- descendants, offspring. children, followers, disciples
16. promulgate (verb)- to proclaim; to make known far and wide; announce
17. rectitude (noun)- uprightness, righteousness, correctness; probity, integrity
18. restive (adj)- restless, hard to manage, balky; uneasy, fidgety, recalcitrant
19. seraphic (adj)- angelic, heavenly, celestial, cherubic; cherubic
20. subsist (verb) to have existence; to remain alive, manage o make a living or maintain life; to persist or continue; last, sustain, survive
Vocabulary 15 exercise 1 Fill in the blank with the correct definition.
1. We are sure that their vow is ______________________________ because their sense of moral obligation will prevent them from ever breaking it.
2. Conscientious parents will do everything they can to foster and develop the _______________________ intellectual curiosity of a small child.
3. Imagine someone with my _____________________ tastes having to live for a week on that watery mush!
4. The biography is a pretty evenhanded appraisal of the man’s strengths and weaknesses, not just another _________________________ to a great hero.
5. I see no reason to question the _______________________ of her dealings with us since I know her to be “as honest as the day is long.”
6. He inveighs against the sins of society with all the stridency of an Old Testament prophet castigating the _____________________ of the ungodly.
7. The wranglers suspected that there were wolves or mountain lions nearby when the herd suddenly grew nervous and _____________________________.
8. The Bible tells us that visitors to the court of Solomon, the great Hebrew king, willingly paid him ______________________________.
9. For many ancient peoples, the appearance of a comet was a fearful omen that _______________________ great social upheaval.
10. After a few days in which everything went my way, I suddenly learned just how _________________________ Lady Luck can be.
11. Am I to be ____________________________ before the entire student body because I made a few minor mistakes as a member of the Student Council?
12. The liberties that we have inherited from our forefathers are a sacred trust that we must pass on undiminished to our ________________________.
13. Authoritarian governments often resort to violence and coercion in their efforts to repress political ___________________________.
14. Our financial situations are so different that what she considers a mere _________________ seems a fortune to me.
15. It was the _________________________ of its natural setting on those rolling hills that led the architect to dub the estate “Mount Pleasant.”
16. The President has ____________________________ a policy that commits the nation to curbing pollution.
17. “I’m afraid that the child’s seraphic countenance belies the devilry in his heart,” I observed sadly.
18. The __________________________ on most cameras can be adjusted to admit more or less light, as required.
19. Nutritionists say that most of us could ________________________ on a great deal less food than we actually consume.
20. Though I’m by no means ________________________ with my money, I don’t hoard it either.
Vocabulary 15 Exercise 2
1. The artist painted the children with ________________________ smiles to suggest their innocence.
2. Peasants in the nineteenth-century Ireland were able to ______________________ almost exclusively on potatoes.
3. After the earthquake, rain and cold came through the ______________________ in the wall of the damaged house.
4. Safeguarding the retirement income of millions of Americans is a(n) _____________________________ trust of the federal government.
5. The candidate tried to ________________________ her political opponent by suggesting that he had ties to organized crime.
6. In comparison to the overwhelming need for food and medicine, the shipment was a mere ______________________.
7. The School Board __________________________ a new approach to education that emphasized phonics.
8. The chef took a(n) _____________________________ delight in presenting the most delicious dishes to his demanding clientele.
9. When I backpack there are certain basic __________________________ such as clean sheets and a dry tent, that I find I sometimes miss.
10. The speaker delivered a ____________________________ in honor of the award-winning author.
11. The mayor is a person of unquestionable ________________________; his honesty is indisputable.
12. The Bill of Rights guarantees certain civil rights and protections to ourselves and our __________________________.
13. When the commanding officer announced that all leave was cancelled, there was widespread ______________________ in the ranks.
14. Some people are so _______________________________that despite high incomes they struggle to make ends meet.
15. The ____________________________ horse had not been taken out of the stable for five days.
16. The skirmishes at the border _____________________ a war.
17. English Puritans looked upon the court that surrounded King Charles I as a den of ____________________________.
18. Upon entering the throne room, each courtier made a respectful __________________________ before the king and queen.
19. The ____________________________ was placed in the center of town so that everyone could view the outlaws and their shame.
20. Recent public opinion polls registered _____________________________opposition to the proposed tax increases.
Vocabulary 15 exercise 3
Synonyms
1. tried to survive in a desert _______________________________
2. dark clouds portending rain _______________________________
3. the angelic tones of the choir ______________________________
4. challenged the integrity of the judge _____________________________
5. a hedonistic display of luxury _____________________________
6. stuffed the orifice with old newspapers ______________________________
7. showed a budding interest in politics _____________________________
8. paid respect to those who came before her _____________________________
9. the pleasantness of a quiet garden _____________________________
10. sacrosanct principle of equality _____________________________
11. will be punished for their crimes ______________________________
12. repaid a mere modicum of what is owed ______________________________
13. announced by the public health authorities ______________________________
14. fidgety after the caffeine _______________________________
15. a fickle disposition _______________________________
Antonyms
16. insulted the king’s ancestors ______________________________
17. always praises those in authority ______________________________
18. gave a long diatribe on the military ______________________________
19. widespread political agreement ______________________________
20. a thrifty manager ______________________________
Vocabulary 15 exercise 4
1. Religious (obeisance / dissidence) was one of the motives that led many people to leave their homes and found colonies in North America.
2. Writers often regard their works as their (dissidence / progeny) in much the same way as other people regard their pets as family members.
3. The resounding victory we scored at the polls is an eloquent tribute to the (rectitude / dissidence) of her approach as campaign manager.
4. As the speaker’s remarks became more inflammatory, the crowd grew more sullen and (nascent / restive).
5. The novel centers on a(n) (improvident / seraphic) young man who squanders his inheritance on riotous living and dies in the poorhouse.
6. I realize the official made a serous mistake, but that is no reason to (pillory /subsist) him so unmercifully in the press.
7. We would like to believe that the intensifying fear of ecological catastrophe (subsists / presages) an era of environmental harmony in the near future.
8. The cost of living has risen so sharply that a salary that was adequate a decade ago is now no more than a mere (panegyric / pittance.)
9. The new “gourmet” deli features delicacies that are bound to delight even the most exacting of (epicurean / nascent) palates.
10. No matter how well defended, no boundary is (inviolable / restive) unless the people on either side of it respect each other.
11. “Angelica” is indeed an apt name for one whose (mutable / seraphic) beauty is complemented by such sweetness of temper and gentleness of spirit.
12. One cannot expect a(n) (epicurean /nascent) democracy to go through its early years without experiencing serious growing pains.
13. Recently, the Principal (promulgated / presaged) a new dress code that abolished some of the unnecessary strictness of the old rules.
14. Liberty (subsists / presages) only so long as people have the intelligence to know their rights and the courage to defend them.
15. There was a loophole in the law, and through this (aperture / obeisance) the defendant escaped the legal consequences of his crime.
16. Instead of being so concerned with the (iniquities / apertures) of others, they would do well to concentrate on correcting their own shortcomings.
17. The study of government shows us that many political institutions thought to be unchanging are in fact highly (inviolable / mutable).
18. Specific customs vary widely in different lands, but the basic (affectations / amenities) of civilized living are much the same everywhere.
19. Like so many others of his generation, he paid unquestioning (iniquity / obeisance) to the accepted symbols of material success.
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