Reminder: Friday vocabulary 14 is due
If you did not turn in your synopsis, do so. This is a class participation grade (an easy one), and if you were absent must make it up.
In class today: You were to read pages 9-13 in Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Think of the novel as being tragicomic. The setting is a mental hospital in the late 1950's. Keep in mind two themes: 1. the dehumanizing of the individual and the need for conformity within a mental institution and 2. how individuality and creativity can be perceived as threatening.
Note the point of view: who is speaking? what do we know of this individual? Be patient with this guy; he's had lots of electroshock and drugs.
The following is an interview with Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ilnADvT2s This should give you insight into the 60's and by extension the character of McMurphy.
Characters: Chief Bromden
Nurse Ratched
Randle McMurphy
Dale Harding
Billy Bibbit
Dr. Spivey
WHY DO HUMANS LAUGH?
Homework:
Read through page 28.
Bonus 50 points
Put together the following: Tom Wolf, Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey. Due Thursday; put by the computer.
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