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. .
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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 is all so big and strong. "So she really lets herself go and her painted smile twists, stretches to an open snarl, and she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a load." (Page 10) this phrase from the novel really sums up how the nurse is portrayed amongst the whole novel in the eyes of the Chief. She is looked upon as a big robot insect. She can look externally calm; she will be smiling, talking calmly, politely when she is really raging with fury inside. She does this at times when she doesn't want people watching to see her bad side. .
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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.