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Cards (8)
- c para 1“I bought along my own deck” This shows us how McMurphy is already trying to turn the patients away from their innocent games and already shows his rebellion against authority and this tells the reader he has not yet grown attached or built a relationship with the patients yet.
- c para 1“We’ll get in straightened out who’s boss around here” This statement shows how at the beginning of the book McMurphy is still power hungry and selfish and wants to run the ward. McMurphy, however, uses this strong headed approach as he is the only one with the courage to stand up to the nurse and notice the Nurse’s manipulative behavior.
- c para 1“pecking party”. This metaphor accurately describes how all the patients are like chickens vying for a status from the nurse
- c para 1“what that nurse and those other bastards did to you” This shows McMurphy is trying to help Harding notice how the nurse is manipulating and shows his growing care for the others and how he is becoming a philanthropic individual.
- c para 2"all twenty of them, raising not just for watching TV, but against the Big Nurse” This shows that McMurphy is beginning to grow an attachment to the patients as he is helping them get justice against the nurse and give them their own voice and shows his control and ability to rally and influence the patients
- c para 2“Now that McMurphy was around to back them up, the guys started letting fly at everything that had ever happened on the ward that they didn’t like.” This shows that McMurphy has given the patients a voice and feeling of safety by caring and looking out for them and makes them feel like men again and has brought them clarity from out of the “fog”
- c para 3“Cocksucker! Washington your nothing but a-” This exclamation shows how Mcmurphy really does care and love the patients as he is willing to stand up for them and then get in a fight for George which shows a drastic change from how he was at the start of the novel
- c para 3“would have had to come back” as he too realised McMurphy cared for and loved the patients so couldn't ever truly leave them and although he tried to hide it McMurphy was deep down an altruistic person.