Study+Guide+2


 * ​Study Guide #2**
 * Pages 41-82**

· //With McMurphy, the ward begins to change and the fundamental battle between Ratched and McMurphy looms.//
 * Introduction**

· //Pick three or four consecutive paragraphs in the reading that seem to give the best example of Nurse Ratched. Mark them in your book.//
 * Up Close**


 * 1. What do you suppose the fog is? The represntation of the problems that they posses. **


 * Is it real? No **


 * Why does the Chief need it? To block out the bad things that happen to people while in the mental institution. **


 * Are there any patients totally lost in the fog? Yes, the chronics **

** 2. What is the hypothetical good intentions of the meeting? To get people to talk about their problems, and to get them to agree that they do have a problem. ​ ** 
 * What is the ugly reality? That they really don't have a problem and being there isn't going to help anyway because the staff, doesn't care. **


 * How does Harding get hurt? He gets pissed off and he starts hitting people and hes not physically able to handle that. **


 * 3. What does Nurse Ratched do to try and intimidate McMurphy? She opens his file and reads aloud almost all of whats in there, like how he had sex with a minor and he is in trouble for rape, and gambling. **

**How is he supposed to feel when she says that? ** **He is supposed to feel she is in charge and she will do anything to make him know she is better than he is. **


 * How does he feel? annoyed because they wont listen to the full story of the situation, but he doesn't feel intimidated **

**How does McMurphy feel about his own sexuality? ** **He feels uncomfortable in his own sexuality**.


 * How does McMurphy turn the tables on her?​ Asks her if she knows how his uncle taught women to say his name correctly .**


 * Has anyone tried to do a similar thing to you? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">yes **


 * 4. What is the Combine? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">It is one of Bromden's hallucinations. It controls/demands human obedience. Ht thinks that he is hearing it in the hospital when it is complete silent. **


 * How did Old Pete avoid the controls of the Combine?**


 * How has McMurphy managed to avoid the Combine?**


 * 5. How are the meetings like "a bunch of chickens at a peckin' party"?<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Because they all start yelling stuff at the same time and you cant hear yourself think. **


 * What is a pecking party? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Where people sit around and yell at eachother and "peck" eachother apart. **


 * 6. What is the difference between a chicken and a rabbit? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this novel a chicken is someone who starts the fight or descusion and lets others carry on the fight or descusion. **


 * In other books, what characters are rabbits?**


 * What characters are chickens?**


 * When have you felt like either a chicken or a rabbit?**


 * 7. What is the bet? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">That Mack will get Miss Ratched's goat but not be sent out to other places to be delt with. **


 * 8. How does Mack fool the Chief?**


 * 9. Describe what the chief sees at night. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">He sees the orde ** **rly turn a nob and then the floor drops and he then sees a chronic being hung from the ceiling by a meat hook. Then they cut him open with a scalpal and nothing falls out, atleast not innards.**
 * Is it true, "even if it never happened." <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">no **


 * According to his vision, what happens at the end of your time on the ward? You wont be the same as when you leave, the quality of life isn't at all what it should be. **