My name is Mark Harding and I am a social worker writing to you concerning a novel called “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. I have managed to interview the Chief. I am writing about how the way a seemingly deaf and dumb man communicated via the narration of this novel. The Chief compares his closed world of paranoia with the natural world he was used to when growing up. He remembers the days when he use to go hunting with his father and the dog they used. Now all he sees is machines, wires, lights and buttons. He is thrown into a place where every one stands in a certain position of importance, the nurse runs the show then the Black Boys are not far behind; calling all the shots when the nurse is not around and finally the patients are also positioned in order as well.
For starters with the way the nurse is portrayed. She reminded me of a man more then a woman apart from the lips and nails that were coloured orange like the end of a soldering iron. She i
The Chief himself could be thought upon as an unreliable narrator but when you think about it if he wasn’t the narrator it would be a completely different story. He cannot be unreliable because what he sees is what he puts in his novel, therefore we read about what he believes. “But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.” (Page 13) this phrase from the Novel explains that the chief may realise that what he is feeling or thinking may not be true even as real as it may feel. Obviously the Chief was not a stupid man, I feel that looking deaf and dumb was a deploy to escape the surroundings he had to cope with.